Watches - another OCD problem

[Heritage_Guy]

My driver Chronostop. Such a quirky , fun little piece.

[Daysleepers]

I’ve been into watches longer than any other hobby, even taught myself to service and fix them. Lockdown was pretty dull for me!

In honour of my love of patina, but lack of patience, I am posting my IWC UTC Spitfire in Bronze. Unfortunately it’s got damp so is off for a service next week.

Also featuring Kersey shirt and 25oz 555s.

[chiverus]

@Heritage_Guy Love love love the Chronostop Driver

[JDelage]

I love that IWC UTC! Proper traveller's GMT!

[Giles]

I really don't get the hard-ons about GMT's. I had a couple (may even still have one by accident). But most people can do basic arithmetic (@Matt accepted). I always have my watch on local, so if I am in NYC, I add 5, or LA, I add 8.

[Daysleepers]

@Giles I am generally with you, though I love that particular UTC. Can do half hours too which isn’t always the case, an interesting thing even is almost entirely without a use case.

I think that can be said about watches in general though. The joy is in the thing.

I use very few of the complications from watches regularly, datevery often, time a bit less, chrono never, GMT maybe when trying to get my wife out the door for a flight.

[JDelage]

What you write is true of most complications, tbh. When do you need a watch to tell you the date (or, god forbid, the date, day, and month...)? Or time something to the 1/10th of a second, etc, etc.

With this said, I have been zonked enough that I had to pull my phone out to check the time at home.

[hjl360]

I think in the smart phone age that logic can be said of watches in general, they are not necessary at all.

It is just the man-child in me that gets excited to jump that hour hand to local time when the plane lands. The little things in life and all that.

[Giles]

True, though I feel lost when I do not have a watch that tells me the time on my wrist, I do use the date function quite a lot (though often after a short month it is days before I notice it's wrong), and I do use a Chronometer fairly regularly.

[the246guy]

Is anyone here owning a Sinn 104 or the U50? How do these compare with respect to the dimensions? Both come in at 41mm and some 47 lug-to-lug. I'm considering getting one of these in the near term and would like to go for the one that wears smaller out of these two.

[Tobi]

@the246guy the U50 is also on my shortlist.. next time I visit home (20min drive to their factory location) I might have a look and try on. Cannot comment on your question though

[Graeme]

I was in Sydney for an event, and I dropped by The Hour Glass to ogle the haute horlogerie they sell. They had a Patek Cubitus on display, and, unlike the Melbourne branch, they also had someone willing to show it to me.

It looks better in reality than in the press photos. There has been a lot of criticism that it's too large, but it didn't feel oversized to me, and being a slim case meant it wore well.

At the same time, it doesn't feel as inspired as the Vacheron Constantin 222, which is also 20% cheaper. I'm not sure if I'd be able to get one. When I saw it earlier this year, the Melbourne boutique alone already had three hundred expressions of interest.

The Alpine Eagle would be another alternative, particularly the XPS with the LUC movement. However, my current favourite is the standard model in pink.

[jdwaid]

My first watch with automatic movement. Seiko Prospex SPB 249.