Got myself a manhole cover for my wrist
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MrSpike said:
As the title I've taken delivery of my U-BOAT so chuffed with it, built like a tank with a 50mm face.
I've never hidden my dislike for the current fashion for huge watches but I would still like to understand how it became so. If you were flying a Spitfire (or I guess piloting a U-Boat) then there was a reason for having something large, for example pilots used to strap their watches over the cuffs of their flying jackets so they could see them easily whilst flying and I assume there is a functional reason why submarine watches are so large? Outside of the environment they were intended for, to me, they look like the playschool watches we used as kids to learn how to tell the time. Swiss craftsmen spent hundreds of years perfecting the miniaturised internals of watches so I just don't get this current trend for ever increasingly over-sized sized lumps. Each to their own of course, but can anyone seriously explain the attraction to me? RichB said:
MrSpike said:
As the title I've taken delivery of my U-BOAT so chuffed with it, built like a tank with a 50mm face.
I've never hidden my dislike for the current fashion for huge watches but I would still like to understand how it became so. If you were flying a Spitfire (or I guess piloting a U-Boat) then there was a reason for having something large, for example pilots used to strap their watches over the cuffs of their flying jackets so they could see them easily whilst flying and I assume there is a functional reason why submarine watches are so large? Outside of the environment they were intended for, to me, they look like the playschool watches we used as kids to learn how to tell the time. Swiss craftsmen spent hundreds of years perfecting the miniaturised internals of watches so I just don't get this current trend for ever increasingly over-sized sized lumps. Each to their own of course, but can anyone seriously explain the attraction to me? ShadownINja said:
RichB said:
MrSpike said:
As the title I've taken delivery of my U-BOAT so chuffed with it.
If you were flying a Spitfire (or I guess piloting a U-Boat) then there was a reason for having something large, for example pilots used to strap their watches over the cuffs of their flying jackets so they could see them easily whilst flying and I assume there is a functional reason why submarine watches are so large?ShadownINja said:
RichB said:
MrSpike said:
As the title I've taken delivery of my U-BOAT so chuffed with it, built like a tank with a 50mm face.
I've never hidden my dislike for the current fashion for huge watches but I would still like to understand how it became so. If you were flying a Spitfire (or I guess piloting a U-Boat) then there was a reason for having something large, for example pilots used to strap their watches over the cuffs of their flying jackets so they could see them easily whilst flying and I assume there is a functional reason why submarine watches are so large? Outside of the environment they were intended for, to me, they look like the playschool watches we used as kids to learn how to tell the time. Swiss craftsmen spent hundreds of years perfecting the miniaturised internals of watches so I just don't get this current trend for ever increasingly over-sized sized lumps. Each to their own of course, but can anyone seriously explain the attraction to me? CommanderJameson said:
ShadownINja said:
RichB said:
MrSpike said:
As the title I've taken delivery of my U-BOAT so chuffed with it, built like a tank with a 50mm face.
I've never hidden my dislike for the current fashion for huge watches but I would still like to understand how it became so. If you were flying a Spitfire (or I guess piloting a U-Boat) then there was a reason for having something large, for example pilots used to strap their watches over the cuffs of their flying jackets so they could see them easily whilst flying and I assume there is a functional reason why submarine watches are so large? Outside of the environment they were intended for, to me, they look like the playschool watches we used as kids to learn how to tell the time. Swiss craftsmen spent hundreds of years perfecting the miniaturised internals of watches so I just don't get this current trend for ever increasingly over-sized sized lumps. Each to their own of course, but can anyone seriously explain the attraction to me? So, it might as well be a Tauchmeister, then?
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