matthewking
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The weight of the horological world
Aug 18, 2014,01:05 AM
My heaviest watch is this Seiko C153, their first, and the world's first LCD digital calculator watch. As an early '80s baby, these calculator watches, along with the Casio Gshock, for better or for worse, were my first introduction to horology.
These calculator watches were cool, and then they were not. But heavier than the every day "not cool factor" of a watch that one happens to treasure is the fact that it's somewhat of an outcast in watch circles as well. It's lumped in with part of the quartz blitz that nearly ended (or revitalized, depending on how you see it!) the sacred practice of mechanical movement innovation and art making. Non-watch people don't like, watch people don't like, and yet, I like it.
Wearing this watch also brings with it certain unwarranted assumptions or prejudices. Some may peg you are a nerd or a hipster or poor or uncultured or any other number of things that are rather negative in connotation. None of my other watches brings this kind of irrational and heavy cultural or social stigma. Trench watches are heavy because they are associated with war and death, and that makes sense to me, but this is simply a calculator watch and neat bit of technology at that! I mean, is this photo even allowed on PuristSPro?? ;P
Heavy from difficult-to-identify origins, this C153 is my weightiest watch.