patrick_y
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Time only!
I used to really need a date on a watch. But now, I find dates aren't always beautiful. So I often times avoid them nowadays for a more symmetrical look. Thus, I'm constantly buying Time Only watches! Perpetual calendars? No thank you - I find that they often break and are often not set correctly. Tourbillons? I'm not that enthralled with the hole in the dial. World Timers look great. But changing timezones, India, and daylight savings time makes these things often not representative. BUT MINUTE REPEATERS??? And Sonneries? SIGN ME UP! Oh, but the price tag hurts a lot!
What do we really need in a watch??
Honestly I think most of us can get buy with time only or a time/date watch. Yet so many of us buy complicted watches, I am referring to the general watch buying public here. I personally don't want a complicated watch, my eyes can't see the dial anyway. ...
GMT or and Alarm are my two favorite complications.
As these are the complications I use the most. And some watches do both of them... ...
Agreed.
That's why I bought my FF Bathyscaphe. Simple, tells the time frighteningly accurately, has just the date (which I need in my line of work), and is robust enough to do the activities I do in life. It's also luxurious enough; great finishing and very nice ...
Difficult to decide.
For one a QP+chrono for sure: The ultimate dream watch would be a Sonata chrono QP ...
EMOTION! All I need is to connect emotionally with a watch to love it! Now most of my watches are time only with a few GMT and one Chrono, but again the complication was not the trigger for the ones that are not time only.
On my wish list I do have more chrono and possible one PC but mostly because these specific reference trigger emotion for me! Great topic BTW!
So many reasons to love watches
It can serve a purpose - time, home time, elapsed time and (except for Nico) date, etc It can remind you of something intrinsic about the solar system - moonphase, equation of time, etc The innovation, technology and craftsmanship can impress and delight ...
For me
A retrograde jump hour with deadbeat seconds a date window and a GMT chapter Ring should do it š
Well, the move to time only has been very strong in recent years.
In the independent world time only watches, albeit it more ācomplicatedā time only watches and those finished at a higher level, seem to have dominated the market over the last several years. Perhaps for those for whom complications on dials no longer mak...
You know the cycles...
WIS seem to live through a period of interest in the most complicated watches possible. During that phase, I bought a rattrapante (GP 9012, which was very nice). I actually bought that reference twice! But I ended up selling it as it was totally useless o...
Agreed
I don't like that complications add significantly to the risk of service being required. More parts=exponentially higher chance of problems! With that said: -Chronographs because of how beautiful manual wind chronos can be. I love what they do to a moveme...
My most worn watch is a simple Explorer.
But Iāve always thought a moonphase would be cool to have. I think the complication is a cool, alternative, middle-of-the-road in a temporal sense, way of marking time. And thatās what watches are for, no? Plus they look cool!
Yes
ā¦the Patek Grandmaster Chime 6300. But also the most complicated and expensive watch I fearā¦
A simple complication for me is day date.
A more practical complication is GMT, with icing on top, it will be GMT + Alarm. Technically more complicated movement for me is a chronograph. Tourbillon is not that complicated but the watch in your message is like a high end Swiss Army knife, good to h...
What we really need in a watch?
For me this isnāt the right question. I need nothing in a watch. I know the time. To me the question is, what do I enjoy in a watch? No easy answer here. I do enjoy the notion of eternity from a perpetual calendar. I love to play around on my chronograph....
I guess,fundamentally,
the watch has to tell time fairly accurately. The aesthetics of the dial and case is important.....the rest is icing on the cake However,i think a chronograph and world time function would be useful and practical,for me.
Time only!
I used to really need a date on a watch. But now, I find dates aren't always beautiful. So I often times avoid them nowadays for a more symmetrical look. Thus, I'm constantly buying Time Only watches! Perpetual calendars? No thank you - I find that they o...
Everything!
I very much prefer ācomplicatedā watches ā I only own/owned a handful of time only/time with date watches (out of >80) in my 20+ years in this hobby. The craftsmanship that goes into a complicated mechanical timepiece, with several hundreds of small mecha...
Don't need,
But I would like to own a triple calendar with moon phase at some stage. Just for the pleasure (displeasure) of playing with it!
