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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...I find my 39mm Speedmaster to feel small...
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EricCsN
·many women wear big watches nowadays and they have small wrists, those dainty tiny watches / subdials are too small for aging eyes
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Watchout312
·My perfect fit is 36-39mm.
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scapa
·I generally wear an SMP at work for its legibility, ease of quick timekeeping and anti-mag properties but tend to gravitate to vintage and smaller contemporary pieces otherwise: FOIS, Spitfire, Explorer and a trusty old Sinn all 39 or smaller. Though I do have a giant Doxa for when I need to fell a marauding shark or iceberg in the water.
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JwRosenthal
·One of my most legible watches at 31.5mm
One of my least legible watches at 42mm
All I see are lots of sticks and subdials before I actually recognize where the hands are.
One of my least legible watches at 42mm
All I see are lots of sticks and subdials before I actually recognize where the hands are.
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83n
·I just saw this vid from Watchfinder on YouTube which states that “the perfect sized watch for the average human being is 39mm”
So I dug out my 39s and I have to say it’s hard to disagree. Perhaps this should be my 3 watch collection....
I saw that video and dawn that TAG is a beauty. But the finishing in the closeups is really horrible.
That being said, he is not wrong. 39 mm is a great size.
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speedytoronto
·One of my least legible watches at 42mm
All I see are lots of sticks and subdials before I actually recognize where the hands are.
That’s interesting. I’m 53 and wear glasses to read. I bought my Speedy pro a year ago because I found it to be very legible even without glasses. I had been considering the FOIS but with its reflective hands I just couldn’t read it quickly and easily at the AD. Guess we’re all different.
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speedytoronto
·many women wear big watches nowadays and they have small wrists, those dainty tiny watches / subdials are too small for aging eyes
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RadiumWatches
·I hate how most 36mm look in my wrist, but many of my beautiful vintage watches are that size... Nobody said life was easy.
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maine-iac1
·I recall when squeezing a movement into a modest-sized case was a sign of engineering prowess. At least that's what my watch shop (run by a Swiss watch maker) told me when I bought a Tissot eons ago. I still prefer the modest proportions. Sad that the Moonwatch wears too big on me. As much as I'd like to have one, the watch has to have the right proportions on my wrist.
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JwRosenthal
·That’s interesting. I’m 53 and wear glasses to read. I bought my Speedy pro a year ago because I found it to be very legible even without glasses. I had been considering the FOIS but with its reflective hands I just couldn’t read it quickly and easily at the AD. Guess we’re all different.
The speedy dial is all slim sticks- the indices, the hash marks and the hands seem to blend on first blush like matchsticks in a pile- it takes a second for my eye to wander about the dial to see where they are.
In contrast, I find my Sinn 103 to be far easier to read at an instant.
The hands jump out and the sub dial recede. The use of Arabic numerals instead of line indices catch the eye rather than blend. The use of different line weights also help to create hierarchy. The dial is indeed busier than the speedy, but the use of different features help give clarity.
I find size has little to do with legibility. You put a 44mm watch with a silver dial, silver hands and silver indices in front of me and I might as well be blind.
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rjdemarco
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dinexus
·Recently sold my 38.5mm Aqua Terra as the watch head sat inside my wrist tanline. Find myself much preferring 42/43mm watches these days. This has been a particular favorite:
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OmegaP99
·In contrast, I find my Sinn 103 to be far easier to read at an instant.
I posted on another forum a discussion about how my 3706 isn't the most legible at a glance and I need to take quite a bit of time to figure out how much time has lapsed. I wanted some comparisons between it and the Sinn 356, which is easy to read immediately. What I got back was pretty much what I expected and reflected my own view pretty much, sure the Sinn is easier to read but the IWC is a classic so don't swap it for the Sinn. Makes sense, and I love the IWC, so adding the Sinn would give me two watches that have nearly identical looks and function, not really how I operate. So I am choosing form over function, and still can barely read the damned thing, but I wear one of the Omega chronos when I know I will be putting the timing function to work that day.
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JwRosenthal
·I posted on another forum a discussion about how my 3706 isn't the most legible at a glance and I need to take quite a bit of time to figure out how much time has lapsed. I wanted some comparisons between it and the Sinn 356, which is easy to read immediately. What I got back was pretty much what I expected and reflected my own view pretty much, sure the Sinn is easier to read but the IWC is a classic so don't swap it for the Sinn. Makes sense, and I love the IWC, so adding the Sinn would give me two watches that have nearly identical looks and function, not really how I operate. So I am choosing form over function, and still can barely read the damned thing, but I wear one of the Omega chronos when I know I will be putting the timing function to work that day.
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OmegaP99
·If time only is all that’s needed for quick reference with aging eyes, through a layer of dust and mud encrusted safety glasses, this is one of my fav’s at 36mm
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