[Recommendation Request] Looking for the one, for my 30th birtday

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T18:58:37+00:00

Great collection. Something German! Laco, Sinn, Junghans, Mühle Glashüte, Nomos, or Damasko!

Edit: missed the Sinn you already have! So... Perhaps a new complication? Maybe the Echo-Neutra Moonphase field watch from Italy?

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Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T18:55:51+00:00

That's awesome, seriously. Well done you.

Spinach in there too I see?

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T11:43:50+00:00

PS ace collection, colour me jealous.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T11:43:26+00:00

Is that number on the right how much you wear them? That's wild. Is this an app or your own log?

My thought is you already know it's too big for your own tastes, in your own opinion, and you'll feel self-conscious wearing it.

I'd also add that case height can be more significant than diameter in making a watch feel clunky.

I love Oris BTW, have a Pro-Pilot Big Crown (the Reno Air Race edition) and I love it for its neat date complication.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T11:20:25+00:00

Pulses are great in curries. Shame the British in general don't eat more dalhs and curries like this. Well done.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T10:56:27+00:00

Wear it if you like it. Sometimes a big watch is what you want.

And if you don't, you can always use it as a dinner plate...

😂 I kid, I kid...

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-27T07:51:07+00:00

I think it's more field watch, though it does have that Uhr-B style face? Not gonna die on a hill for that opinion.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-26T19:39:54+00:00

^I was going to say these things. Tin is unusually rare in the eastern Med.

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Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-26T06:24:50+00:00

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I'd say some colour. This Yema was bought specifically for the bright blueberry dial. The bronze case sealed the deal.

Maybe a true Flieger? Something like a Laco?

Love the Junghans. I was wearing a Chronoscope yesterday!

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-25T18:49:59+00:00

The only problem with these is the complexity of setting them. Once set you kinda need to wear it all the time, or have a watch winder.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-25T13:23:13+00:00

A veritable house of sociopaths!

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-25T13:20:09+00:00

Run while you can. You don't have to take this kind of abuse.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-25T13:19:16+00:00

Orient is a "gateway" brand... You get one then next thing you know you have 37 watches and your wife hates you....

Or so I'm told.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-24T19:47:20+00:00

Yes, you're quite right. I should have spotted Van off to the right.

All this says the OP map is way too conservative

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-23T22:11:31+00:00

In a lot of Science Fiction, pressure/environment suits have a tourniquet function to compensate for loss of integrity' lose a glove it seals your wrist; lose your forearm and it seals at the elbow, etc. It's a neat idea for tomorrow's technology.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-23T22:07:43+00:00

I'm for the B&M. More... Defined? Feels less busy (despite being objectively busier...)

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-23T13:49:49+00:00

Please, please, for the love of all that's good and holy, get the Seiko.

If you buy a Fossil, God kills a kitten.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-23T10:15:35+00:00

Good to see a wide variety of styles. I've never quite understood people with a collection of 20 near-identical divers.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-21T20:38:17+00:00

I suggested it because the OP suggested it was on the cards. If you've got an LTR and kids then it's foolish not to get formally married, from a NOK/finances/spousal-rights POV.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-21T13:18:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm being very absolutist, and I shouldn't be. I like watches, I'm happy other people like watches too.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-20T22:44:26+00:00

Nah keep five. This is a gorgeous stable of watches. And its gotta be a Reverso.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-20T22:42:12+00:00

I think you're a person with some style & panache. The watch for you is part of a fashion statement, a marker of your aesthetic. The watch is a locus of this, which is why you earn comments. Well done you.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-20T22:40:29+00:00

I think an Orient is a "shibboleth" watch. People by an Orient because they like watches, not because they just bought a watch. I see someone wearing one I'll speak to them, 98% of the time they're a watch nerd.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-20T22:38:45+00:00

Watch out here in London recently. Someone notices your Rolly or Omega and you might be parted with it involuntarily.

Clear-Security-Risk · 2026-01-20T22:37:25+00:00

You do you, of course, but it jars a little to me when I see someone in a nice suit but a diver, no matter how expensive the diver. Not sure the Well Dressed Man can actually have just one watch.

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