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great post !
and with exactly the right cartoon 
I agree with ALL of your points, including the cock-eyed calender beyond 4 o'clock - that good old 2892 or whatever the module placed on top of a particular sandwich construction.
Makes me sick!
As for an equivalent punishment in this or the afterlife - bashing out parts for whatever you can name on a production line overseen by enough real people - totally including women - around to laugh the designer to death - if he is not dead enough already!
Ah, sweet dreams of becoming the next Great Designer.
Well, first I start with shoes - watches - then I go on to parfumes, lotionary products, beauty-enhancing creams. Then I have a Brand Name - and my boutiques and collections.
I guess you catch my drift.
And with you all the way.
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amerix
P.S. I am obviously biased toward the arts of horology and not design for its own sake. When a watchmaker can work together with a designer, without one Ego gaining supremicy over the other - meaning the Designer - then extraordinary results can happen.
My special case - the watches from Vianney Halter: conflicts, misunderstandings - but the result is Exactly right for me!
And I could not design even a door-knob.
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This message has been edited by amerix on 2010-08-01 12:18:19
Watch Pet Peeves
I'm shore we all gotta em, I know I do lol. Here's a short list of my Pet Peeves please I'm not complaining just speaking the truth. 1) Multifunction watches that display day, date, month ect that have over sized chronograph pushers. If your gonna make a ...
No your not alone
there are many things that one could say i particularly dont like when dials have too much writing sounds crazy but i think it makes it look cheap
superfluous writing
1) I sort of understand having "automatic" or "chronometer" in the dial, especially if a brand has various watches that look similar and it actually helps to distinguish the watches. But writing "tourbillon" above or below the complication that is exposed...
Here are a couple of mine
a) My main pet peeve is brands using tiny movements in large cases. I'm alright with medium sized movements in large cases, but miniscule movements in large cases is a no no for me. Many brands try to design the dial with a lot of superfluous text or minu...
+1
And to add to your point Anthony, straps that taper ridiculously like from 22 to 16 on a big watch.
Interesting topic...
But very subjective, in my opinion, so I will only speak for myself. The worst for me are fake watches. Then, very colse to fakes, the " Homage ", I mean watches totally remade with spare parts, which we see a lot with Vintage Panerai. Then, an excessive ...
Predictably...
...my peeve is dressy or illegible Dive watches. There are so many great choices in that category that I wonder why.... Homage: when done well - Longines Legend Diver (no date), Polaris - wonderful. When done badly - Longines WWW - terrible. The remade wa...
Excessive writing ...
Hi Nico, I generally agree regarding dial verbiage, but there are some watches, such as several Rolex models, where the writing seems to work with the design, at least to my eyes. Perhaps it's a longevity thing and I have got used to it after decades of e...
Beer Production....
I live within walking distance of the biggest brewery in Australia. In Summer, you can see the bottles whizzing by. I tried using the Tachy to determine the production rate (yes, nerdy) got about 3 different figures....and very strange looks from passers-...
Yes, this is the other classic example
meantioned in some user booklets, when one runs out of milestones, kilometer markings, and a horse - with or without a carriage - with or without a whip.. What a way to put my mind at ease - timing bottles coming off the production line! Cheers amerix
How about this one?
The G.O. PanoMaticCounter XL, combining a chronograph with a push-operated counter from 1 to 99 or from 99 to 0, with ups and downs in either direction, was introduced this March. Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall. Now what will happen if one of the...
mine are
super luminova painted dial as a whole for example some chronoswiss watches, green luminova , too much writing on the dial or non organized mismatch of colors on the dial small movements for big cases . Faisal
I just though of another one
Watches with horrible lume??? Whats the point of having luminous hands and Hour Markers with bad lume?
What is horrible / bad lume to you?
The color, the way in which it is applied, the parts of the watch it is used on (what's the use of lumed hands when the indices are not similarly lumed), mismatched colours on hands and dial, the duration and intensity of the luminosity, etc. Interested.....
I'll be honest
Its not the color, but some companies like Invicta for example say their lume (Tritnite) is some of the best I out there believe it when I say it sucks. And some companies can sometimes be a little lazy when they use luminous paint. But that's for other p...
Minor thing but...
Leather straps on dive watches make no sense to me. Also sports chronos, the kind you would go swimming with, not having screw down pushers. No big deal but just kind of makes me wonder.... Ray
Good points, here are mine pet peeves:
1) Limited editions when there are a couple of thousands of the same watch out there. Or just come out with variations of dials and it's a limited edition? I dun think I need to mention the manufactures that does this...most are guilty. 2) 50mm or bigger ...
Arabic/Roman numerals without 5 min markers :-(
I had a wonderful Zenith Class El Primero with large Arabic numbers; however, it did not have any distinguishing five minute markers. This design feature prevented me from being able to accurately tell the time, which grew more frustrating over time. I en...
My list is long
Here is: a) Bracelets without micro adjustment. Wrist size varies with the weather and ... b) Unbalance between the watch head and the bracelet/strap. Example: See the recent Rolex models. c) Blueish anti glare coating. d) Fake military association. e) No...
Very subjective....
For me, apart from fake watches: 1. Limited editions which are only limited to the amount they can sell 2. Re-issue of limited editions, which are also limited editions 3. Trying to pretend/ copy another manufacturer 4. Associating with something that has...
Keep bring them
I want this thread to go on as long as possible. I know there are a lot of members here, who have not commented. If you have any more watch pet peeves please do tell.
Well, mine is simple...
"white" date boxes on colored dials, rather than paying the extra couple of bucks to get a same-color-as-dail disc with white font. (i.e.: it's my one pet peeve with my Superocean and Compressor Diver Chrono vs my Hour Vision). Beyond that, mega-complicat...
Illegibility.
I have seen some watches where I could not find the hands. I don't mean I couldn't find them at first glance, I mean they were invisible. Maybe my eyes are not as good as they used to be (they're not), but it really should be possible to tell that a watch...
I have a few....
1.) Big watches with puny dates - If you are going to up the size of the watch, make the time, date and other complications legible 2.) Skeleton watches - Beautiful to look at, as long as you don't have to read the time 3.) Crowded dials- Simpler is usual...
deployants that pinch and bit, latches that eat into my arm, the
cheap and rattly bracelets on early Rolexes, Numerals chopped up by superfluous elements of the dial design, Angled dates at 4:30 when they could be straight at 3,6, 9 or 12 (or anywhere else ) Totally random placement of indications on the dial face (Sor...
great post !
and with exactly the right cartoon I agree with ALL of your points, including the cock-eyed calender beyond 4 o'clock - that good old 2892 or whatever the module placed on top of a particular sandwich construction. Makes me sick! As for an equivalent puni...