Your “if only watch”?

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mayankyadav

·Jul 28, 2020

Modern Sub - If only it's ever in stock :-P
Vintage solid gold Longines - if only @STANDY ships his Admiral shown in his pic attached here to me

 

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Dgercp

·Jul 28, 2020

Rolex, if only it didn't say Rolex on the dial.

 

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abrod520

·Jul 28, 2020

Most of the Carreras that TAG puts out these days. So close, yet so far. The upcoming models this fall will be this close to wonderful, but will include a gross bit of design across the entire range that just kills the whole watch for me

 

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SkunkPrince

·Jul 28, 2020

Charlemagne1333

The current output of De Ville Prestige. The date wheels in white are too contrasty for my liking. If they matched the colour to that of the dials they would make for a more useable dress watch

The 90s watches were a lot more understated and nicer... for all that the cases are exactly the same!!

 

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munichblue

·Jul 28, 2020

Dor_42

If only Panerai Luminor watches did not have that crown guard...

Radiomir! There are some models almost identical.

 

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abrod520

·Jul 28, 2020

Oh yeah, I've got another one. If only Omega had done some common-sense testing before shipping out their No Time To Die Seamaster, I could have actually enjoyed it. Instead I got this:

I have no use for watches that I can't see and so it's gone now

 

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Martin_J_N

·Jul 28, 2020

Apollo 8 Dark Side, I love that design, that look, just a stunning watch but and it is a big but, I cannot see the hour and minute hands on the dial as my eye is always drawn to the yellow chronograph hand and this just stops me from making the purchase. I have tried the watch on a number of times now, but always come back to those hands.

 

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M'Bob

·Jul 29, 2020

If only so many watches didn’t have a date window...especially at four...

 

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N05J3W3

·Jul 29, 2020

1016, if not for the price...

kelsey

Is there any watch out there that you love but it has one thing with it that’s a real deal breaker....and you’re like if only.......?

 

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mr_smith

·Jul 29, 2020

M'Bob

date window...especially at four...

I don't mind a date window... it's the four o'clock date window specifically that has killed my interest in many watches.

I rather liked this one from Hamilton until I saw the text on the side of the case... I guess so you don't forget what it's made of?

 

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M'Bob

·Jul 29, 2020

mr_smith

I don't mind a date window... it's the four o'clock date window specifically that has killed my interest in many watches.

I rather liked this one from Hamilton until I saw the text on the side of the case... I guess so you don't forget what it's made of?

Seems to be a trend to graphically clutter. Compare these older, and newer and Daytonas:

 

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mr_smith

·Jul 29, 2020

M'Bob

Seems to be a trend to graphically clutter. Compare these older, and newer and Daytonas

Quite a difference between these two. Perhaps comes down to individual tastes too... plenty of text on my Planet Oceans but they don't seem cluttered to me. The large 'Titanium' etched into the side of the Hamilton case is just too much for me. I like it enough otherwise that I thought about getting one and seeing if a refinish could take the text off.

 

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sonicosa

·Jul 29, 2020

Another Hamilton “if only”... I’d be all over this watch if it didn’t have that extra slab of steel on the crown side of the case.

 

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M'Bob

·Jul 29, 2020

abrod520

I have no use for watches that I can't see and so it's gone now

Unfortunately, I have the same problem with my FOIS. Great during the day, but in any kind of questionable light, just can’t see the hands.

 

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abrod520

·Jul 29, 2020

M'Bob

Unfortunately, I have the same problem with my FOIS. Great during the day, but in any kind of questionable light, just can’t see the hands.

That's strange, because my Apollo XI 50th doesn't have that problem really. Either the hands are reflecting at the same rate as the crystal, or the crystal isn't reflecting anything.

I also have / have had many other watches at all sorts of price points with sapphire crystals both domed and flat, and the only other one I had a similarly bad experience with was the Seiko SBDC053. But that's an $800 watch...

In any case, if this is Omega's "anti-reflective" sapphire crystal, I cringe to think what one without AR would look like!

 

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ChiefMark

·Jul 29, 2020

abrod520

In any case, if this is Omega's "anti-reflective" sapphire crystal, I cringe to think what one without AR would look like!

My Hamilton Murph... yikes that thing could really use a decent AR coating.

 

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Sterling Archer

·Jul 29, 2020

I guess if the James Cameron was smaller. I've been very close to pulling the trigger, even got a very unexpected call from an AD but declined the watch.

The watch is an absolute stretch budget wise and it's simply too big for my wrist and I'm not in the camp that thinks every watch should be 39mm. When I had a Speedy, that wore as a bigger watch on my wrist but the James Cameron is somewhat ludicrous to the point I have to be self-aware that I am wearing a clock. Big difference between big and too big.

 

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Tet

·Jul 30, 2020

If only it was slimmer.

 

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pongster

·Jul 30, 2020

M'Bob

Seems to be a trend to graphically clutter. Compare these older, and newer and Daytonas:

also the screw down pushers. i dont like them in both my leman and daytona. seems counter-intuitive for a stop watch function.

 

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profzhu

·Jul 30, 2020

Any oversized modern watch by PP (5196P, 5070) or AP (15400), or IWC (any modern MK pilot) where the movement is obviously too small for the case.

Seeing date windows or sub seconds in the middle of the dial ruins many great designs. The proportions are completely off and just kill the whole thing for me