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Here I go for hates:
Date wheel colour that does not match the dial: such a basic design error.
"Automatic" on the dial and all other unnecessary words. There is always the case back for words if the wearer forgets!
Screw down-crown where WR less than 5 bar.
Screw-down crown on manual wind watches where WR less than 6 bar.
Blount ended hands.
Alpha numbers that do not align parallel with the line 12 to 6.
Balance timing regulators without a tang to make an adjustment, especially where there are engraved regulator indexes on the balance cock.
Radio-active lume.
Really tiny crowns that shred skin.
Cyclops windows on crystals.
Even alpha numbers only.
Diamonds or similar.
Gold plating unless over .925 silver cases.
"NATO" straps.
HAGWE!
Clive
Watch Turn-Offs/Pet Peeves
A couple of small details that make me shy away from a watch, the crown not being at the 3 o'clock position, and round watches being "flat" between the lugs, similar to some Seikos. Small details I agree, but turn-offs to me. What are your particular turn...
Turn-offs and my turn-ons
Watches which look not like watches. Known by the name time machines. Odd pistons which is a miniature of a supercar engine. Cost sometimes crazy amounts of money. Why should i pay for a thing that is more an advertorial? The baddest silly peace, Breitlin...
Black dials
I also refuse black dials. My reason, i had to much watches with it. To easy for the industrie to produce.
That is a much rarer occurrence in my experience, I have rarely come across watches with a genuinely too long minute hand.
Although Tudor Black Bay 58, while a nice watch, is borderline in this respect: However, looking closely, I think the issue has more to do with the relative placement of the lume dots and the way the minute hand extends far beyond those (as well as to a l...
How about crooked batons and minute indices and a date window that sticks out like a gangrened foot? đ
Photo from somewhere out there ...
How much time do you have?
: ) Seriously, most are related to legibility and type/kerning issues.
Silvered hands against a black dial
You know what I mean: the watches that make you flick your wrist so that the hour and minute hand catch the light and you can then tell the time.
Polished lugs on Daytona (116520). Lol
Couldn't wait to let it go because of it... I know it's gotta be just me because everybody seems to love Daytonas.. ...
I have found that some details that turned me off âŚ
âŚwere actually fine in another timepiece. I see the word âautomaticâ on Panerai dials and I hate it. I prefer the AP 15400 over the other RO iterations and yet the word âautomaticâ appears on the AP15400. Similarly, most date windows leave me cold, but wh...
A fewâŚ
For example: Blunt tips of hands, especially on âprecisionâ watches like chronographs. ( I make an exception for my 15202 as a stylistic quirk!). Short hands which donât reach the relevant markers. Numerals for the even numbers only. Dauphine hands with a...
1. Date window at 4.30.
2. Very low legibility (silver hands on silver dial, silver hands on black dial). Without lume of course 3. Skeleton dial on common / unimpressive movement 4. Short hands 5. Sport watch that claim 100 mtr WR or above, without screw down crown 6. Over hype...
Very interesting topic, Thomas!
Here are my very personal no-goâs (where I - please! - don't want to hurt or offend anyone): * lovelessly produced movements without precision work in the high price (haute horlogerie) segment * only on some sides polished hands * movements that are too s...
Here I go for hates:
Date wheel colour that does not match the dial: such a basic design error. "Automatic" on the dial and all other unnecessary words. There is always the case back for words if the wearer forgets! Screw down-crown where WR less than 5 bar. Screw-down crown ...
