Was just looking at @Steve9pm's WTB for a Lange 1. Way beyond my means, but once tried one on and loved everything about it, except their apparent inability to resist the desire to write all over the dial. What is the liklihood that you're going to forget which way is up and which way is down after a few times wearing it? They are not quite as bad as Rolex, who seem to think that no dial is complete without an essay on shellfish and some spurious blow about official certification, but close. Part of me even resents the logo: we pay them $xk for a watch and then have to walk around advertising their brand? Absurd But they once knew restraint I can see the utility of on-dial instructions on a truly complicated watch like a g-shock, but surely in a dress watch less is more. Photo courtesy of @CanberraOmega And how to do a toolwatch no logo... (stolen from the interweb) Am I alone in not wanting to read War & Peace when I look at my wrist? OK, rant over.
Haha, I see your point. Still, some watches just look so clean despite writing, while others look a bit cluttered or too busy.
Even how it's done can make it not look as bad, but yes Rolex is the story watch nowadays on several models
Hey did I mention this watch has an ORIGINAL GAS ESCAPE VALVE with a RING LOCK SYSTEM just making sure you don't forget.
I can think of other places where RING LOCK SYSTEM might be appropriate, but it's probably wasted on one's wrist...
Couldn't agree with you more. I think it is really cool and unique to have a Tiffany stamped dial every once in awhile, but a wall of text is not necessary. Case in point, the old vs new Pelagos (picture taken from watchuseek). The old version is a throwback to the great snowflake of the 70's and 80's and the new has 7 lines of text, 8 if you include the Swiss Made at the bottom of the dial. Is all this text really necessary? Obviously not...