Dateless complications

Most of the watches in my collection have a date complication being mostly late 50's to late 70's with a smattering of all ages either side and as such most followed the trend of have either a date or day date ( thankfully dont have to many of those).
Recently I purchased a Daytona with out a date complication and which because its new to me I have worn an awful lot and the one thing I have noticed is the not inconsiderable amount times I have needed to know the date and have had to either pick up my smart phone or refer to a wall clock or some such with a date display.

Whilst this is not a biggie what surprised me was that I had never noticed the reliance I had placed on the humble dress watch with a date and the complete unconscious referral to it.

One of mine that I really like even though it's a modern is this Seagull movement watch, everything there and easy to read at a glance.

But of course you only get 10 or 12 years out of the year complication 🙁

Same with me 👍
Every time i am buying groceries i would chack my watch, how much time i s left till the fish or milk expires. In fact i probably more often check my wrist for checking the date, than for checking the time.
The only time i really read the time is during the night when kids wake me up.
So my daily drivers mostly tend to have a lume AND Date complications.


But i do love to rotate them with dateless complications too, especially when those are manual wind 😎

Love that one, I always feel cheated by watches with a wide Bezel as everything is just that much smaller in the dial space but edge to edge ( like a modern edge to edge curved smart phone screen ) makes every thing look so much larger.
Its one of the reasons I am always so hesitant on dive watches as you effectively end up with a dial that could easily fit in a 30mm dial case, I really feel cheated!
Most oversize or jumbo or vintage watches tend to have a much smaller bezel on the case and even though many of them are only 38mm or so they wear like a 40 or 42mm watch, heaven!
I have one or 2 watches where the second hand seems to disappear off into the very edge of the lens and its an intriguing and interesting effect and often as not the minute hands actually cover the minutes dial markers too rather than leaving you guess like many styles do, not that short minute and hour hands cant be attractive but they are less practical for a quick glance to ascertain the time

You can buy a new year disk for 0.5$ in 7 years, or just sand, coat and crayon

On topic, years ago I was fascinated by skeleton watches, almost bought a Tourby skeleton when Art Deco ETA movements weren't extinct, Chinese have incredible movements too, cheap Tourbillon's, almost bought this in 2019:



Very rare that they do anything without worthless made up brands though, best to leave watches brandless I believe

Crayon? No way, do it like the pros, use a Sharpie ! 😝