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My wristwatch is

the cheapest available
[ 1 ] (25%)
digital with light button
[ 1 ] (25%)
gym smarty with heartrate counter because i am very old/fit
[ 0 ] (0%)
inherited from grandfather
[ 0 ] (0%)
other (specify - extra points available for watch collectors!)
[ 2 ] (50%)

Total Members Voted: 4

Topic: Best about wristwatches (Read 11330 times)

Re: Best about wristwatches

Reply #25 –
USA is the land of the free and whatever. In USA you are free to announce a watch without disclosing the movement.[1] Buyers are free to pay the bargain $100,000 now expressly *without* a guaranteed delivery date. Can be bitcoin too, if you please. Also, "images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product."

This is the watch I'm talking about https://gettrumpwatches.com/products/tourbillon-full-gold



Trump's campaign merch knows no limits and stops at nothing. Even the famous "little lady Secret Service Agent" is now a perpetual collateral damage of his grift.


1 Actually I understand: Which respectable movement maker would want itself associated with this disaster? It can only be "Swiss craftmanship" outsourced to China.↵
 

Re: Best about wristwatches

Reply #28 –
One of my favourite watch features is world time, particularly traveller's world time. It is so favourite that I do not have a watch with this feature (except a Casio, but on a quartz it is trivial). I won't get it unless someone gets world time absolutely right.

A proper world time watch shows all time zones in the entire world. It is especially proper when it does it at a single glance. Right now the closest to my ideal appears to be Nomos Sport Club neomatik Worldtimer.



For comparison, here is Oris Propilot Worldtimer.



A particular feature called "traveller's world time" means that the watch has a pushbutton that conveniently changes the hour hand *of the main dial* because a true traveller would want to see the current local time on the main dial, not on a subdial.

On the Oris it may seem that the pushbutton is missing, but actually it is provided by the turn of the bezel. Moreover, the bezel works in both directions, so the next time zone is available whichever way one is travelling. Still, even though the marketing name of the Oris claims that it is a worldtimer, it is rather a GMT watch. Different from a worldtimer, a GMT watch displays only one other time zone at a time and without a label, not all time zones labelled like the Nomos does.

Another difference between the watches is that the Oris has the date, which in my opinion is unnecessary in a worldtimer. Also seconds are mostly unnecessary, but both watches have it.

I like very much the way the other time zone has been solved on the Nomos. The Nomos has a 24h subdial, good for determining whether it is night or day in the other time zone.[1] Also, the 24h subdial has a single hand, which is honestly sufficient for the time zone where one is currently not residing and makes the overall look of the watch less busy, i.e. more legible.

Strictly in terms of functionality, any multi-time-zone quartz watch is better though, because it is possible to set a quartz GMT to any random time, while mechanical GMTs and worldtimers usually need to point to the same minutes on both dials. This is the reason why I have not bought a mechanical worldtimer: I value the functionality and I already have a quartz that is excellent with it.

Edit: And Jaeger-LeCoultre released Reverso Geographic.


1 On the Oris, the day/night indication is provided by a white window on the subdial, which flips to black for night,↵