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rationalization, or control?
Hi Nicolas,
I think product rationalization is probably the reason, but it looks like overly tight control over choices. I can argue (as later in the thread) that making a new dial, while not free of design and production costs, can probably be done more easily, and in smaller volumes, than cases or movements.
I look at Habring, and to a lesser extent Dornblueth, and I see many attractive options. I don't expect a big manufacturer to have this degree of customization possible, but perhaps more than we're getting now?
Tom
Where have the dial variations gone?
As I was selecting a picture for the weekly 'Scan and admiring the sunray silver dial of the vintage Yacht Club: I recalled that I had archived a photo of an amazing variety of Yacht Club dials from IWC: (Photo by Michael Friedberg of the IWC forum.) If I...
They're not "variations;" they're "limited editions."
I think there is a trend toward setting up an opportunity to charge a limitation premium for any variation. If you take limited editions into account, you can find a great deal of dial variation.
Interesting topic, Tom.
There is still, in the modern production, a variety of dials. Look, for example, at AP with the RO and ROO, JLC with some watches such as the Amvox II, Panerai with the Luminor, Rolex with the Daytona, and so on... The Geomatic received different dials, i...
rationalization, or control?
Hi Nicolas, I think product rationalization is probably the reason, but it looks like overly tight control over choices. I can argue (as later in the thread) that making a new dial, while not free of design and production costs, can probably be done more ...
the way i see it
IS what you said Dear Nicolas as production rationalization and the extra time and funding required for product development and marketing and in case they are offering a dial variation then the end buyer get charged a premium price for that again they ask...
Lovely dials...
...I also regret the passing of the time when manufacturers had a selection of standard dials, rather than the dial-and-caseback engineering which comprises so many modern premium priced special editions. I have only seen silver, blue and gold on the 1970...
I think you hit it...
Steve, you captured my question perfectly: "there used to be a selection of standard dials" and now there are Limited Editions instead, with extra engraving, different casebacks, weird hands, different (and expensive) straps, etc. I think that offering di...
Yacht Club cal 89, green sunray dial
This is the only example of a Yacht Club I've seen without the typical silver, blue, or anthracite dial. Making the example even more special, this houses the manual wind cal. 89 instead of the typical automatic cal. 854(1). As SteveG has written, cal. 89...
I'd gather that the variety of dials may.......
obscure the distinctive character of the mdoel?...... only a guess.... J
Grand Seiko is famous for dial variations
I think you could see a wide choice of textures and a few choices of colors on most of their models. I bought a car a few years ago for my friend Hal. An older gent, he didn't want to run with the dealer gauntlet, so I did the legwork. He wanted a high-en...