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Watches others love…that cause you to scratch your head
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Pascal S
·Any kind of "open heart" watch. I'm not into skeletonized watches, but at least I respect the craftsmanship that goes into making these. But just showing the balance wheel is at the same time lazy and makes for an unbalanced dial that looks like a mess.
Zenith is a repeat offender with these...
Zenith is a repeat offender with these...
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·Any kind of "open heart" watch. I'm not into skeletonized watches, but at least I respect the craftsmanship that goes into making these. But just showing the balance wheel is at the same time lazy and makes for an unbalanced dial that looks like a mess.
Zenith is a repeat offender with these...
Agreed ..but with one caveat, the space watch worn by the late great Richard Rogers that hugely influenced his very best work:
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Pascal S
·That's an accutron tuning fork movement. That's a whole other story!
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·Rolex Explorer I. Incredibly boring watch with a hefty relative price tag and overrepresented in the watch nerd community.
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Waltesefalcon
·Agreed ..but with one caveat, the space watch worn by the late great Richard Rogers that hugely influenced his very best work:
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hen
·The Spaceview is a masterpiece of design.
I know what you mean, but is it really? Form follows function and simplicity often makes great design, but I guess what happened here is that engineers made the watch. Then when it was time to case it and design a dial the designers said "let skip the dial and show of the cool tech". So designers should get the credit for not hiding how the mechanism that the engineers created look. So I`ll guess you are right and I am just ranting. 😉
Another example is the Ducati 750 Imola racer that is named as the most beautiful motorcycle ever build. Someone wanted to know who designed this master piece of design and no one had an answer. The bike was build by the racing department of bits and bobs from the whole factory to one specific task; to win races. The fairing was made or modified by the faring department, the iconic tank by the tank guys and so on. Compare that to the Philppe Starck designed Aprilia, that the only thing said about it was that i broke some trends.
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·I know what you mean, but is it really? Form follows function and simplicity often makes great design, but I guess what happened here is that engineers made the watch. Then when it was time to case it and design a dial the designers said "let skip the dial and show of the cool tech". So designers should get the credit for not hiding how the mechanism that the engineers created look. So I`ll guess you are right and I am just ranting. 😉
Another example is the Ducati 750 Imola racer that is named as the most beautiful motorcycle ever build. Someone wanted to know who designed this master piece of design and no one had an answer. The bike was build by the racing department of bits and bobs from the whole factory to one specific task; to win races. The fairing was made or modified by the faring department, the iconic tank by the tank guys and so on. Compare that to the Philppe Starck designed Aprilia, that the only thing said about it was that i broke some trends.
Nice analogy with the 750 Imola, but it's my understanding that the skeletal Bulova Accutron 214 Spaceview was only intended as a window display to show the uber-futuristic inner workings to potential customers, it wasn't actually available to purchase, but nearly every customer that was coming into store would say but I want to buy the one in the window, so Bulova being the shrewd operators that they were thought okay, we can do that and they created a sellable version with a chapter ring and some rudimentary crystal lume, and the rest is history.
So with this in mind, I think there's something incredibly honest and beautiful about this unintended watch; together with the fact that one of my architectural Heroes was unbelievably influenced and inspired by the watch that his mother bought for him, though he wore throughout his life.
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·Nice analogy with the 750 Imola, but it's my understanding that the skeletal Bulova Accutron 214 Spaceview was only intended as a window display to show the uber-futuristic inner workings to potential customers, it wasn't actually available to purchase, but nearly every customer that was coming into store would say but I want to buy the one in the window, so Bulova being the shrewd operators that they were thought okay, we can do that and they created a sellable version with a chapter ring and some rudimentary crystal lume, and the rest is history.
So with this in mind, I think there's something incredibly honest and beautiful about this unintended watch; together with the fact that one of my architectural Heroes was unbelievably influenced and inspired by the watch that his mother bought for him, though he wore throughout his life.
Very interesting that it was customers wishes that brought this gem to life. One can only imagine how it looked to people back then, truly new and space age.
Do you mind telling us who the architect you have in mind?
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··Home For Wayward WatchesAgreed and agreed ...but I also have bad associations with the name Tudor, it's a bit like the name in your watch brand the Windsors or the Georgian, or Jacobian or Stuart?? Just sounds corny and cheesy..
Oh, I don't know. Naming watches after after British royal dynasties or eras lends much more cachet then unimaginative nonsense words having a second syllable of -ex or simply "X."
After all, there is a watch company that maintains an extensive line of quite decent watches with a brand name which doesn't inspire except in a certain industrial, corporate, biochemical sort of way.
Like Rolex ... or: Timex, Lumex, Kotex, Tampex, Nasex, Pemex, GovX, PestEx, Unex, AgeX, MedEx, Gas-X.
Contrived words ending with a stupid contrived letter and all having a flavor of "yuck."
Mind you, if I sneak up on a Rolex for a "real deal" I'll happily add it to The Home For Wayward Watches here.
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Waltesefalcon
·Yup the Spaceview was conceived as simply a display piece to show off the accutron movement. Customer requests are what made it into a retail piece.
I can also see the analogy to the Imola. Sometimes things just come together. I think that is kind of an organic and honest way for a product to come together.
Blowup is referring to Richard Rogers, the man interviewed in the video he shared.
I can also see the analogy to the Imola. Sometimes things just come together. I think that is kind of an organic and honest way for a product to come together.
Blowup is referring to Richard Rogers, the man interviewed in the video he shared.
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··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Given the recent Richard Mille thread …Those too.
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