Reviews - are people interested?

[yeti]

Prompted by JR's very useful review of the new Swatch Irony auto, I realised that very very few people write reviews of their watches on here.

Are people not interested? Thing about a review is that it takes time to write and annotate and no-one wants to do that for it to be ignored. Other 'proper' watch forums do it, just wondered why we don't? Would people like to read them or would it just be seen as 'look what I've got' posting?

I'm going to write one on my Fifty Fathoms when I get back from Thailand; it's brilliant and I'll love it ever more

[andy_s]

I'll be boring the tits off everyone with a few in the next week or so, a nice A386 Zenith from 1970 and a comparison between the EZM1 LE and ZUZ/3H.

Gripping stuff....

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

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Edited by andy_s on Saturday 9th November 12:18

[JRewing]

Thanks for the kind words, yeti. I just thought that there's not that much useful out there about those watches and I didn't want to sign up to another site to do it.
I don't think that it seemed like a 'look what I've got' post as it's not exactly anything impressive, I just find it a genuinely intriguing watch.

Anyway, I for one would be delighted to read a review of such a beautiful watch! A Blancpain is on my 'to own' list.

Maybe we could even ask for a sub-section of this subforum to be set up for such things? People could write reviews of interesting watches and maybe others could request certain pictures and reviews?

[yeti]

Great stuff mate - start the ball rolling!!

I've had a great year watch-wise and would like to share some thoughts with like-minded types. I guess if the thread title is specific then people know what they're getting

[yeti]

JRewing said:

Maybe we could even ask for a sub-section of this subforum to be set up for such things? People could write reviews of interesting watches and maybe others could request certain pictures and reviews?

Not a bad idea - but sometimes traffic is so slow on here that I have the last reply on every subject on the page

Certainly not suggesting your post was 'look at what I have' but if someone writes a review of their Richard Mille or complicated Patek, could that be seen wrongly? It's a car forum really and we all read about cars we can't afford; but do we like doing that..? I know I do

[JRewing]

yeti said:

Not a bad idea - but sometimes traffic is so slow on here that I have the last reply on every subject on the page

Certainly not suggesting your post was 'look at what I have' but if someone writes a review of their Richard Mille or complicated Patek, could that be seen wrongly? It's a car forum really and we all read about cars we can't afford; but do we like doing that..? I know I do

I wouldn't see it as such. I didn't bother to write anything about my more expensive watches as there's already stacks out there about each - including better photos than I could take.

I can't afford your Blancpain, but I'd love to read your thoughts on it!

And yes, it would be a niche section to be used more as a resource than a conversation board.

[n_const]

yeti said:

Great stuff mate - start the ball rolling!!

I've had a great year watch-wise and would like to share some thoughts with like-minded types. I guess if the thread title is specific then people know what they're getting

Yeti , i would read what you have to say about your watches. Especially knowing that i will never own 99% of the watches you have.