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I was in the JLC boutique this evening and they forwarded me some pics of the timer.
Glad to share
Photos all credit JLC
My apologies.
Only when I read your post did I realize I might have “stealing your scoop” so to speak which is absolutely unintentional.
Just was ebthousiastic about the watch and your post and when I received those pictures all I wanted was to contribute not steal a premiere
Sorry for that
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The spacing between individual characters (letters)...
...for instance, in 'MEMOVOX' (on the non-limited version) there are large spaces between the O—V—O. This happens when someone types out the word and uses the default from whatever application they are using (MS Word, for instance). If this spacing occurs in a block of text, it's not great but usually not noticed. But when it's in a single word, or in a headline, for instance, it can be glaring and obvious, especially to a graphic designer who has been setting type for forty years (me). It only bothers me because it is an own-goal so to speak. It could have been fixed in less than ten seconds, but nobody knew to fix it. That means that JLC either has terrible graphics people, or they have none at all. Either is bad. On a Timex? Not great but understandable. On a $15k watch...kind of unforgivable when the fix is so easy. Details matter.
I see, but don't you think it is made on purpose to highlight the true meaning of Memovox, the Memory of the Voice. Hence the space... [nt]
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Then why is the spacing bad between the V and the second O...
and the M A and T in Automatique?
JLC never uses Memovox are two words.
I know I am being picky but it's what I got/get paid to do.
JLC never uses Memovox are two words.
I know I am being picky but it's what I got/get paid to do.
Hehehe... Don't forget these are not the definitive watches. We'll keep an eye on those details. [nt]
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Hopefully they read this forum and will make the adjustment...
...also please forgive the typo above. I am a good designer but a terrible typist : )
Like -50 kerning you reckon?
Ha ha, I too get paid to do this and that kerning is certainly tight!
Some is tight, some isn't...
...that's the point, it's inconsistent. 99.9% don't care either way so I'm beating a dead horse.
While it's a shame about the date window, the new Timer looks really, really tempting!
Not sure I could justify it alongside my classic Master Memovox, but boy, is it cool-looking!
Yours is already a very nice one. The Timer is another beast, which would justify the addition. We didn't discuss it, but the new simple Memovox with a black dial, hmmmm... [nt]
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that's would be stunning, or with the inner dial in red, miam miam [nt]
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On the close-up shots on another site...
...you can see that a lot of work went into that date window...lots of detail. Whether you like it or not, they didn't skimp on that part : )
Presuming it's done similarly to the previos generation Memovox that I own, the details and finishing on the date window are indeed nice. 👍
I really wish they'd done a color-matched date wheel for the blue dial, though. I think the date window works much better on my silver-dialed reference, my only complaint being that it's not aligned with the hour indices. (Too close to the center of the dial.) The rendering of the new silver-dial version looks even a bit better executed to me, in that the tips of those new, longer indices seem to align more closely with the window.
Yes, that's it. I like the new silver dial a lot, which goes farther in terms of elegance. [nt]
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More pictures
I was in the JLC boutique this evening and they forwarded me some pics of the timer.
Glad to share
Photos all credit JLC
Thanks for the extra pictures. I wanted to post them a bit later... ;) [nt]
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Ai
My apologies.
Only when I read your post did I realize I might have “stealing your scoop” so to speak which is absolutely unintentional.
Just was ebthousiastic about the watch and your post and when I received those pictures all I wanted was to contribute not steal a premiere
Sorry for that
The Timer, one of the first JLC in some time that made me look harder, and read on.
I do like it, visually. And the alarm and countdown combination is really very practical. Neither are something most of us think much about when we think about mechanical watches.
Granted, they are nice, I will give JLC that much. But don't you think its time for them to introduce
something new and exciting instead of reissues, or tributes to former watches. Surely someone at JLC
can come up with a fresh, new idea and put it into motion.
Yes I do think so. And I am waiting for something... Special and very dar to my heart... [nt]
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