Horological Meandering

Well for me their exist some icon watches that will forever be connected to some person or event. Lets start out of this world. The Omega Speedmaster - aka the "Moon Watch" will forever be "The Moon Watch". What will the watch be when we sometime in the f...  

1. rolex date-just steel - as this was my first top watch and it is still the essencial watch within the rolex range in my eyes - you cannot beat it over the long run ... 2. patek calatrava clous-de-paris - the most elegant watch design ever - unmatched g... 

GP 3 bridges tourbillon UN Freak Rolex day-date JLC duometre (an icon in the making) Lange 1

Rolex Submariner Panerai Luminor AP Offshore Cartier Santos JLC Reverso This question also raises another question, "Which recent watches of today will reach iconic status in the future?" Cheers, Anthony

Rolex Submariner Omega Speedmaster AP Royal Oak Lange 1 Swatch Quartz Just my $0.02 Mitch

That would need a definition, but if I remember well, we had an excellent thread on this topic ( Andrew D initiated it, if I'm correct ). An Iconic watch is a watch which perfectly represents the brand, os, to me, it is related to the brand. In this case,... 

AP: Royal Oak Bretling: Chronmat Cartier: Tank Basculante Eterna: KonTiki IWC: Aquatimer / Portuguese Minerva: 140th Longines: Lingbergh Jaeger Le Coultre: Futurematic Zenith: chronomaster

5 Iconic Watches: 1.) PP Calatrava 2.) Rolex Datejust 3.) Lange 1 4.) AP Royal Oak Offshore 5.) Vacheron Constantin Malte Skeleton 5 Watch-Changing (revolutionary) Iconic Watches: 1.) UN Freak 2.) F.P. Journe Resonance 3.) Hublot (first fine timepiece to ... 

I'm going to reach back to the original icons of the WW world, the ones that, in my mind, set the stage for all of this fun: 1. Rolex Oyster -- Do I need to explain 2. Gruen Curvex/Movado Polyplan -- you can't have a Freak or a Concord C1 or any of the ma...  

there are a lot of similarities here as i think we all understand the meaning of Iconic. it is really a watch that is instantly recognisable to anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of watches, recognisable as being of historic significance. here are a coup...  

The trench watch is not a specific model but rather a type of timekeeper. The use of trench watches during the First Global Unpleasantness really moved the wrist-watch from the realm of ladies' fashion and laid the foundation of the wristwatch as the univ...