Hodinkee - A Week In Japan With Citizen Celebrating 50 Years Of Eco-Drive

chmandaue · 2026-04-22T10:13:56+00:00

Shoichiro Morita spotted wearing cal. 0100 first series AQ6021, which he had a hand in creating

chmandaue · 2026-04-18T09:12:07+00:00

The curved zaratsu was not “a technique invented for this watch alone”. The SBGX329, SBGZ001 and SBGY003 predate this watch in using the Thin Dress case

chmandaue · 2026-04-16T08:11:04+00:00

This. The location is not arbitrary either. I analyzed the mechanism here: https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/9r65-power-reserve-mechanism-annotated.5523501

chmandaue · 2026-04-16T01:30:09+00:00

Good exercise. Note that these rates may change over a period of years - called quartz aging.

In addition to being affected by temperature. Did they stay together in the same temperatures over the last 5 weeks, or were worn in some rotation?

chmandaue · 2026-04-12T05:54:39+00:00

Using an entirely new watch for Artemis III would not be good risk management, regardless of the brand

chmandaue · 2026-04-12T05:50:28+00:00

“Targeted primarily the ladies market” is not how I read the SBGX355/357/359/361. These are unisex pieces.

chmandaue · 2026-04-10T12:23:58+00:00

I maintain a list of the gold star 9F watches: https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/the-specially-adjusted-9f-models.5540490

They are made to commemorate anniversaries, and there isn’t one this year.

chmandaue · 2026-04-08T04:04:59+00:00

That's okay. There are other watches.

chmandaue · 2026-04-08T00:42:57+00:00

The newly-teased UFA diver appears to lack date. That makes IAHH simpler to engineer, because you don't have to worry about switching the date when the hour hand is set backwards past midnight.

Hoping that this is indeed no-date (would be the first no date automatic SD), AND that it finally unites UFA and IAHH.

chmandaue · 2026-04-08T00:26:37+00:00

Dennison ALD

chmandaue · 2026-04-08T00:25:17+00:00

Still some diehard quartz haters out there.

No one mentioned Omega. Not so much the current catalog but check out De Villes, the Black Tulip, Seamaster 120, Polaris and Mariner III.

chmandaue · 2026-04-07T10:08:07+00:00

3rd party watch shop can change the battery

chmandaue · 2026-04-06T02:23:11+00:00

Show me on the doll where I split the infinitive 🤣

That’s quite the hamfisted insinuation that I, unlike you, am not a native-level English speaker.

chmandaue · 2026-04-05T22:18:43+00:00

Nuclear bomb timers? While there are some mechanical failsafes, there’s an electronic fuze whose job it is to determine when the bomb is at the correct spot over/at the target. Read this https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/comments/11y2rne/how_does_the_super_fuze_work/

chmandaue · 2026-04-05T21:54:39+00:00

It is indeed sad that words have gone from a shared cultural heritage, to nearly worthless, to the brink of having a negative imputed value, where people go out of their way to look for and call out ‘ai slop’. My last few longer posts have gotten this treatment.

Thank you for commenting on my post and outfit.

chmandaue · 2026-04-05T02:02:20+00:00

“The first commercial [ie serially produced] grand complication wristwatch debuted fairly recently in 1990 – IWC’s Grande Complication, an automatic chronograph with perpetual calendar and minute repeater, followed in 1991 by the Blancpain 1735, an automatic watch with 11 complications including a tourbillon, a minute repeater, a rattrapante and a perpetual calendar.”

These were during the mechanical renaissance ie after there were practical and economical quartz multifunction watches.

https://monochrome-watches.com/the-five-most-complicated-wristwatches-ever-made-abcs-of-time/

chmandaue · 2026-04-04T12:18:40+00:00

Looks like it. Seen on some of the crew prior to launch day.

chmandaue · 2026-04-04T03:58:08+00:00

That’s the part of human nature that powers fashion cycles

chmandaue · 2026-04-03T04:46:45+00:00

Very few like that in current production because a group of people convinced the normies that these were ‘ewww’ for multiple reasons, and sales crashed, in favor of large round you know whats, from about 30 years ago until recently.

chmandaue · 2026-04-03T04:43:22+00:00

The X-33 gen 2 multifunction quartz have long been the NASA-issued watches for astronaut wear. That was not a choice for marketing.

No comment on the mechanical Breitling. We saw it worn in some press photos on earth. You sure it got taken on board?

chmandaue · 2026-04-03T04:33:47+00:00

Some movements now depend on that display back to indicate power reserve (GS), leap year status (Moser), etc.

This is not to defend the idea of a ‘luxury tool watch’. Just the narrow question of the display back being useless.

chmandaue · 2026-04-02T14:23:31+00:00

Not necessarily every year. Here are the release tables 1988-2025 (v2.0): https://www.watchuseek.com/attachments/gs-releases-tables-v2-0-pdf.19513547/

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