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Great thread, Douglas!
My personal pet peeves:
* cost-saving measures with simultaneous profiteering, especially:
• lovelessly produced movements without precision work in the high price (haute horlogerie) segment or
• movements that are too small in cases that are too large or
• calling rudimentary revised standard movements “in-house” or
• cheating in general
* hands, that are polished not on all sides
* standardized white date wheels that are built into as many watches as possible, regardless of whether the color matches the dial or not
* „Automatic“ written on the dial
* watch models from the diving watch segment with a water resistance of only 30m
* in general: watches with a WR less than 10 bar (especially if they are meant to be „sports watches“). A WR of 10 bar should be a minimum standard in modern watchmaking.
* concepts that are brought to market quickly, that are not well thought out and are driven by management and / or marketing departments that have no real passion for watches and could just as easily be active in the detergent industry
* artificial shortage
* etc
Best
Thomas
'Pet Peeves', or annoyances, on watches. We all have them, what are your 'pet peeves' that keep you from buying a certain model/brand/type?
Excellent thread!
Like what Lankysudanese said....
My Pet Peeves
Limited editions
What I find really annoying
It’s really nasty indeed, rife for con artists too
Date windows that show more than the current date. Do they think we can't remember what comes before and after '5'?
Great thread, Douglas!
"Hands that are not polished on all sides"
Hehehehe…. But I admit that laughter often gets stuck in my throat….
Display backs on “tool” watches
Pieces that borrow designs heavily from the past but then “forget” to use a decent movement.. especially for those from their golden years..
My peeves
