Very interesting topic, Thomas!

Here are my very personal no-go’s (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 small in cases that are too large
* standardized white date wheels that are built into as many watches as possible, regardless of whether the color matches the dial or not (but I have to confess: I own a watch with a blue to black dial with a white date window where it works - perhaps because the date window nearly looks like one of the markers).
* „Automatic“ written on the dial
* watch models from the diving watch segment with a water resistance of only 3 bar
* in general: watches with a WR less than 10 bar (especially if they are meant to be „sports watches“). Ok, even 6 bar (Hi Nautilus! 😊) can be acceptable. A WR of 10 bar should be a minimum standard in modern watchmaking (but also here I have to confess: I own three watches with a WR of just 30m - a MR and two PCs - which I love immensely).

Best
Thomas

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Watch Turn-Offs/Pet Peeves

By: Thomas_3 : July 9th, 2021-19:59

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

By: LiftAngle51 : July 9th, 2021-20:26

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...

Turn-Offs...

By: cshimokita : July 9th, 2021-21:54

Dateless black dials... YMMV 😊 .

Black dials

By: LiftAngle51 : July 10th, 2021-01:12

I also refuse black dials. My reason, i had to much watches with it. To easy for the industrie to produce.

Too short hands!

By: countzero : July 9th, 2021-22:08

Such a basic design mistake, and still one sees that happen.

What about hands that are too long

By: Thomas_3 : July 9th, 2021-23:48

and hang out over the minute track??

That is a much rarer occurrence in my experience, I have rarely come across watches with a genuinely too long minute hand.

By: countzero : July 10th, 2021-03:46

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? 😉

By: India Whiskey Charlie : July 9th, 2021-23:04

Photo from somewhere out there ...

Wow!

By: LS : July 10th, 2021-00:15

That thing is ugly!

: ) Seriously, most are related to legibility and type/kerning issues.

Silvered hands against a black dial

By: Chromatic Fugue : July 10th, 2021-00:44

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

By: Ivan5 : July 10th, 2021-01:09

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 …

By: Jim14 : July 10th, 2021-01:22

…were actually fine in another timepiece. I see the word “automatic” on Panerai dials and I hate it. I prefer the AP 15400 over the other RO iterations and yet the word “automatic” appears on the AP15400. Similarly, most date windows leave me cold, but wh...

Date cutout window at 4-5 o’clock

By: Clueless_Collector : July 10th, 2021-06:02

A few…

By: Tiggermelad : July 10th, 2021-06:52

For example: Blunt tips of hands, especially on “precision” watches like chronographs. ( I make an exception for my 15202 as a stylistic quirk!). Short hands which don’t reach the relevant markers. Numerals for the even numbers only. Dauphine hands with a...

1. Date window at 4.30.

By: hoseachandra : July 10th, 2021-06:59

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...