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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by robatsu » December 4th 2022, 12:47am

The mint dial Tissot was nice.

The Grand Seiko on the list is mislabeled. Seemed awful cheap for a GS even by prices before the recent run up.

So I looked it up and it is a King Seiko, and a quite nice one. I’ve long wanted the SCVN001 but they are spendy, nice alternative here
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by codguy » December 4th 2022, 7:18am

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That mint Tissot would make a cute chick watch and that Zenith Pantone is simply gay as hell.

On the other hand, I would definitely wear the Girard-Perregaux, Speedmaster '57 & A Lange & Soehne 1815.

Youz can keep the rest.
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by Nuvolari » December 4th 2022, 11:11am

DoctorIvey wrote: ↑
December 3rd 2022, 11:20pm
 Imagine how disappointed Franck Mueller must have been to have collaborated (X’ed) with Bamford and Popeye but unable to get Justin Bieber aboard. A nearly perfect shitheel wartch despite the omission.
I was also struck by the super-value to be found in owning a watch featuring a cartoon character that even the wearer most likely barely remembers - for the unbelievably low low price of just under THIRTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING.
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by Nuvolari » December 4th 2022, 11:20am

codguy wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 7:18am
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That mint Tissot would make a cute chick watch and that Zenith Pantone is simply gay as hell.

On the other hand, I would definitely wear the Girard-Perregaux, Speedmaster '57 & A Lange & Soehne 1815.

Youz can keep the rest.
Nah - that Tissot’s cool once you get the mechanical movement crammed in there. Even a big burly dude like you could wear that in style.

But that Zenith... I assume there was not sufficient room to include the model’s complete name. They dropped “Good Taste” as in, Defy Good Taste Extreme, which isn’t that clever once you see it.
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by robatsu » December 4th 2022, 7:01pm

And how come this guy or the black or two tone variants not make the list,

41mm width, 11mm thickness, super wearable 6105-8000 reissue pretty much,

Why isn’t this in the list?

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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by conjurer » December 4th 2022, 8:37pm

Nuvolari wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 11:11am
DoctorIvey wrote: ↑
December 3rd 2022, 11:20pm
 Imagine how disappointed Franck Mueller must have been to have collaborated (X’ed) with Bamford and Popeye but unable to get Justin Bieber aboard. A nearly perfect shitheel wartch despite the omission.
I was also struck by the super-value to be found in owning a watch featuring a cartoon character that even the wearer most likely barely remembers - for the unbelievably low low price of just under THIRTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING.
64D0ACAC-E5D6-4A19-B7C3-0BBFB05F15B8.jpeg
GTFOOH!
To be fair, that one looks a lot better than most Franck Mullers.
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by codguy » December 5th 2022, 7:54am

robatsu wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 7:01pm
 And how come this guy or the black or two tone variants not make the list,

Why isn’t this in the list?
Because of the lame date window would be my guess
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by robatsu » December 5th 2022, 2:47pm

codguy wrote: ↑
December 5th 2022, 7:54am
robatsu wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 7:01pm
 And how come this guy or the black or two tone variants not make the list,

Why isn’t this in the list?
Because of the lame date window would be my guess
I read four or five reviews and such on this watch. Only one mentioned the date window, but felt very strongly about in a negative way

Also alluded to sort of a running controversy in general about date windows such as this one

I thought it was interesting as I don’t have much feeling about date windows generally other than I’m happy to buy watches without them, don’t use them for the most part

Eyes are getting too poor among other reasons, like less reason to care about the date as I’m not working now etc

So this is not to dispute but to help me understand what is the issue with this date window. I’m just curious

The reviewer didn’t explain just said there were strong opinions about it

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Post by smellody » December 5th 2022, 3:20pm

robatsu wrote: ↑
December 5th 2022, 2:47pm
codguy wrote: ↑
December 5th 2022, 7:54am
robatsu wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 7:01pm
 And how come this guy or the black or two tone variants not make the list,

Why isn’t this in the list?
Because of the lame date window would be my guess
I read four or five reviews and such on this watch. Only one mentioned the date window, but felt very strongly about in a negative way

Also alluded to sort of a running controversy in general about date windows such as this one

I thought it was interesting as I don’t have much feeling about date windows generally other than I’m happy to buy watches without them, don’t use them for the most part

Eyes are getting too poor among other reasons, like less reason to care about the date as I’m not working now etc

So this is not to dispute but to help me understand what is the issue with this date window. I’m just curious

The reviewer didn’t explain just said there were strong opinions about it

Thanks
Interesting. I went looking to give myself an understanding too. I searched the dial then finally found the peephole of the date window.

The 4:30 placement is a little unorthodox, but I kind of like the inconspicuousness of the round v square peephole.

Perhaps Cod is having a round hole 🕳 square box 📦 inconsistent moment.

Back to the unorthodox 4:30 placement, it does impact symmetry, but treatment for me kind of voids the issue.

That's my humble take.
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Re: GQ best watches of 2022

Post by robatsu » December 8th 2022, 7:53pm

codguy wrote: ↑
December 5th 2022, 7:54am
robatsu wrote: ↑
December 4th 2022, 7:01pm
 And how come this guy or the black or two tone variants not make the list,

Why isn’t this in the list?
Because of the lame date window would be my guess
I’ve come to agree with the lame date window

That type works in other watch styles and invariably it is a measure to make it discrete

But that violates the design unity of a dive watch, one of which is high readability in low visibility situations

So a nicely discrete complication had no place here.

So yeah, fail, too bad nice piece otherwise
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