Anyone have experience of one of these?

[GTEYE]

It’s a Wempe Zeitmeister- from Glashütte in Germany. Not a really original design, but still an interesting brand - apparently good spec, ceramic bezel, chronometer spec and keen prices vs the obvious Swiss alternatives. They use a Sellita not an in house movement. €2500 thereabouts.

Edited by GTEYE on Thursday 6th June 09:38

[anonymous-user]

Wempe are a large jewellery chain, like Mappin and Webb, not sure if it helps

[lostkiwi]

Wempe were also one of the famous four making watches for the Luftwaffe during WW2 alongside Lange, Laco, and Stowa.
As Wempe had more manufacturing capacity than Lange some Lange watches were assembled by Wempe as well.

[cbmotorsport]

If you have any regard for resale value, I suspect that this would tank once bought.

[lostkiwi]

Just had a closer look and that bezel would really get to me after a while.
The top HT is split by the marker but the LT is not, pushing the marker off center. It makes my teeth itch now I've seen it!

[Lorne]

lostkiwi said:

Just had a closer look and that bezel would really get to me after a while.
The top HT is split by the marker but the LT is not, pushing the marker off center. It makes my teeth itch now I've seen it!

That's an interesting bezel. I like it as I don't think I've seen a high-tide low-tide one before.

I think the bottom, LT marker is deliberately off as tides aren't quite 6 hours apart. HT to HT is about 12 1/2 hrs, so HT to LT is about 6 hrs 15 mins.

It's a good bezel if your a sailor, where coming into harbour at LT can be impossible, or a diver, where diving midway between tides results in generally a lot of swimming against a fast tidal flow. You'd have to set it on the day you wanted to use it, but it would be a good piece of information to have on your wrist.

edit: just googled and 6 hrs 12.5 minutes between HT and LT

[lostkiwi]

Yes but it's also 6 hrs 12.5 to high tide from low tide not 5 hours 47.5......

[Fallingup]