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M'Bob
·A fairly nice Art Deco dial, then this:
Adding a date feature? Really?
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...The market has spoken and you are not the market.
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JwRosenthal
·Yeah, people like the date window- I’m not really one of them. They could have at least used a black date wheel which would have made it more discrete.
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Duracuir1
··Never Used A Kodak
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cvalue13
·They could have at least used a black date wheel
this is insult to injury
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JwRosenthal
·this is insult to injury
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Walrus
·I used to love a clean dial. Actually I didn’t like seiko as everything had day date and that bothered me. Now I rely on it, feel lost without it. It seems like yesterday everyone was freaking out about Y2K and all the sudden it’s 2022. WTF is going on with this time thing. And yes sometimes I look for my glasses when I am wearing them so early senility is quite possible but every guide I can use to hide it I’ll take. I better get two in case I misplace one.
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cvalue13
·Hey, trying to put lipstick on a pig here!
I was unclear!
Having the date window on this watch is injury.
Making the date window white instead of black was insult to injury.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...For the uninitiated... (IE not anyone who has already posted) this is what I am referring to.
Collectors prefer no date for a few reasons, cleaner dial, one less thing to set when we put on a watch, etc. The general watch-buying public sees the date complication as a great thing to have, making the watch more useful.
Collectors prefer no date for a few reasons, cleaner dial, one less thing to set when we put on a watch, etc. The general watch-buying public sees the date complication as a great thing to have, making the watch more useful.
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M'Bob
·For the uninitiated...
Collectors prefer no date for a few reasons, cleaner dial, one less thing to set when we put on a watch, etc. The general watch-buying public sees the date complication as a great thing to have, making the watch more useful.
Totally on target: I went to college with a gal that once told me she wore a watch with a date function for that reason only; she didn’t even bother setting the time.
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blufinz52
··Hears dead people, not watch rotors.I used to love a clean dial. Actually I didn’t like seiko as everything had day date and that bothered me. Now I rely on it, feel lost without it. It seems like yesterday everyone was freaking out about Y2K and all the sudden it’s 2022. WTF is going on with this time thing. And yes sometimes I look for my glasses when I am wearing them so early senility is quite possible but everything guide I can use to hide it I’ll take. I better get two in case I misplace one.
I like how you go from 'used to like a clean dial', to Y2K, to 2022, to looking for your glasses while wearing them, to you better get two. 😀
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Evitzee
·And in general the public will prefer an automatic watch over a manual. Most collectors can go either way depending on the watch. But AP knew that putting a date and auto movement into that case was the way to go. If it was a manual wind with no date it would be a hard sell for any AD.
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cvalue13
·But AP knew that putting a date and auto movement into that case was the way to go.
This is why it’s so insulting! I can forgive the marketing necessity, but to in this watch not do both or either of (1) put the date at 6 o’clock position, and (2) make the wheel black, just seems like “pencil vomit” (sloppy design)
Perhaps white font on black date wheel causes legibility issues in a watch this size, but that’s what iPhones are for
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ConElPueblo
·The obvious fix would to make the 9 o'clock equal in size and maintaining symmetry.
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cvalue13
·The obvious fix would to make the 9 o'clock equal in size and maintaining symmetry.
lets take this even further, and add a second date window at 9 that shows the mirror/reversed image of the date
Kind of getting behind the idea of just leaning into mayhem
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M'Bob
·And in general the public will prefer an automatic watch over a manual
Yes, this always puzzled me. One of the joys of interfacing with a watch it the tactile experience of the wind. You feel the gears, the clicking, the satisfaction of the gentle stop at the end. Just picking it up from the nightstand at morning time, and throwing it on? Less fun…
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Evitzee
·Yes, this always puzzled me. One of the joys of interfacing with a watch it the tactile experience of the wind. You feel the gears, the clicking, the satisfaction of the gentle stop at the end. Just picking it up from the nightstand at morning time, and throwing it on? Less fun…
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