Horological Meandering

Wearing my Seiko Astron today, I began to wonder about caseback shapes. How many are concave: Curved to confirm with the arm’s circumference. Versus those that are convex, or protruding into the space between your arm’s bones (or into your arm itself). As...  

has a highly unique, and subjectively highly attractive case design.... Thanks for the images, cheers, Filip

Curved case...flat back. ...  

Curved. Cvstos ...  

Also Tank Cintree. GP vintage 1945.

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One key aspect that is relevant when I pick up a watch is how it catches with cuffs or anything it could encounter while wearing it (pieces of furniture but also people's arms for example). For example, I find the Breitling Aerospace very catchy, which is... 

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The first Astron-labeled watch was Seiko's first quartz model. Here's a photo from the Seiko museum - you can see the shape. Mine is one of the Anniversary editions - I bought it on a whim at Feldmar's in Los Angeles while on my way to a Feb 29th GTG in S...  

All the quartz, solar, GPS and Spring Drive watches came from the Seiko Epson / Shinshu Watch Studio. Again a few years ago Seiko issued a 50-year commemorative watch, a 50-unit run of Astron and it was in gold like the first one, with a special solar mov...  

...which helps a lot with their wearability

Mine is pretty square. ...  

Yes, the curved case back is a great improvement

Good replies too. I can see at the Bulova website a curved watch. Myself, while i have many watches with a transparant case back, one is closed. All case backs are flat. Here a case back i like much. ...  

I like that because it always reminds me that IMO this watch is a BADASS of all BADASS watches… ...  

They are just as likely to get damaged as that watch is!