Comments:
I have a few....
1.) Big watches with puny dates - If you are going to up the size of the watch, make the time, date and other complications legible
2.) Skeleton watches - Beautiful to look at, as long as you don't have to read the time
3.) Crowded dials- Simpler is usually better....and more legible
4.) Overly complicated watches - Some watches are just over the top in terms of complications and complexity. I'll admit some are beautiful and admirable from an horological design perspective, but they are not my preference
5.) Dive watches with leather straps - Makes no sense whatsoever. Of course, some (or perhaps many) don't dive with them anyway.
Dave
2.) Skeleton watches - Beautiful to look at, as long as you don't have to read the time
3.) Crowded dials- Simpler is usually better....and more legible
4.) Overly complicated watches - Some watches are just over the top in terms of complications and complexity. I'll admit some are beautiful and admirable from an horological design perspective, but they are not my preference
5.) Dive watches with leather straps - Makes no sense whatsoever. Of course, some (or perhaps many) don't dive with them anyway.
Dave
deployants that pinch and bit, latches that eat into my arm, the
cheap and rattly bracelets on early Rolexes,
Numerals chopped up by superfluous elements of the dial design,
Angled dates at 4:30 when they could be straight at 3,6, 9 or 12 (or anywhere else )
Totally random placement of indications on the dial face (Sorry, the UN perpetual is the winner of this one)
Crowns that are too smooth (some Seikos), too small (my Gerald Genta), too sharp-edged (Silberstein)
etc
Are we just whiners? Or are the designers just being designers?
What is the equivalent punishment for watch designers?
Cazalea
Numerals chopped up by superfluous elements of the dial design,
Angled dates at 4:30 when they could be straight at 3,6, 9 or 12 (or anywhere else )
Totally random placement of indications on the dial face (Sorry, the UN perpetual is the winner of this one)
Crowns that are too smooth (some Seikos), too small (my Gerald Genta), too sharp-edged (Silberstein)
etc
Are we just whiners? Or are the designers just being designers?
What is the equivalent punishment for watch designers?
Cazalea
great post !
and with exactly the right cartoon 
I agree with ALL of your points, including the cock-eyed calender beyond 4 o'clock - that good old 2892 or whatever the module placed on top of a particular sandwich construction.
Makes me sick!
As for an equivalent punishment in this or the afterlife - bashing out parts for whatever you can name on a production line overseen by enough real people - totally including women - around to laugh the designer to death - if he is not dead enough already!
Ah, sweet dreams of becoming the next Great Designer.
Well, first I start with shoes - watches - then I go on to parfumes, lotionary products, beauty-enhancing creams. Then I have a Brand Name - and my boutiques and collections.
I guess you catch my drift.
And with you all the way.
))
amerix
P.S. I am obviously biased toward the arts of horology and not design for its own sake. When a watchmaker can work together with a designer, without one Ego gaining supremicy over the other - meaning the Designer - then extraordinary results can happen.
My special case - the watches from Vianney Halter: conflicts, misunderstandings - but the result is Exactly right for me!
And I could not design even a door-knob.
.
This message has been edited by amerix on 2010-08-01 12:18:19
I agree with ALL of your points, including the cock-eyed calender beyond 4 o'clock - that good old 2892 or whatever the module placed on top of a particular sandwich construction.
Makes me sick!
As for an equivalent punishment in this or the afterlife - bashing out parts for whatever you can name on a production line overseen by enough real people - totally including women - around to laugh the designer to death - if he is not dead enough already!
Ah, sweet dreams of becoming the next Great Designer.
Well, first I start with shoes - watches - then I go on to parfumes, lotionary products, beauty-enhancing creams. Then I have a Brand Name - and my boutiques and collections.
I guess you catch my drift.
And with you all the way.
))amerix
P.S. I am obviously biased toward the arts of horology and not design for its own sake. When a watchmaker can work together with a designer, without one Ego gaining supremicy over the other - meaning the Designer - then extraordinary results can happen.
My special case - the watches from Vianney Halter: conflicts, misunderstandings - but the result is Exactly right for me!
And I could not design even a door-knob.
.
This message has been edited by amerix on 2010-08-01 12:18:19