u/Frest0n

I will not be taking any questions.

A man should be able to take his watch off at 5 PM on a Friday and he should find it still running and keeping good time at 9 AM on Monday.

I don’t wanna hear excuses. It’s 2026. We have the technology for this now.

Yes, I’m aware that there are a handful of American boutique manufacturers making in-house mechanical movements. I’m also aware of the Ameriquartz movements. All of this is cool! I’m sincerely glad that people in the USA are doing this stuff.

However, the Japanese quartz movements are lightyears beyond ours. China’s manufacturing abilities leave us in the dust. We honestly look like a primitive cargo cult compared to the watch manufacturing capabilities of Europe and Asia. This is embarrassing, considering we USED to have a very robust watch industry before all the offshoring.

I said what I said.

You don't long for a "one-watch collection," you just want a sense of peace and contentment you've been deprived of for your whole stupid life. You think this endless vapid materialism treadmill can give you that? That's like smoking to cure cancer.

In fact, you don't even like watches. You just use them to get compliments from strangers because you're lonely and you've never felt accepted.

Fuck the watches. Donate them all to the homeless and start looking inward.

I don’t live near a VC dealer and I’m worried that the ones I see on Chrono24 are fake.

Is it possible to buy a brand new VC online?

These aren’t cars. They don’t need preventative maintenance. Never send a watch in for service if it’s keeping good time, because there’s a good chance the watchmaker will introduce some new problems it didn’t have before, like scratches on the finish, dust on the dial, etc.

If it’s running well, don’t f with it.

Today, two decades after smartphones made watches obsolete, we are somehow in a resurgent golden age of watches. Selection, artistry, technology, skill, and materials have never been better. And, unlike the generations of watch-buyers before us, we can endlessly search online and buy anything from anywhere on the globe. One can get almost any features or designs one wants if one has the cash. We are at the pinnacle of watchmaking right now and, when the watch fad collapses, it will all go downhill from there forever.

So, let's appreciate this moment.

The Rolex waitlist game is corrupt. Many on here blame the authorized distributors, but Rolex itself is guilty too.

Rolex could keep a master customer waitlist and dole the watches out to those customers in first-come-first-serve order via the ADs. Rolex could ship watches to dealers with specific serial numbers allotted to specific customers.

But they don’t do this. Instead, they hand ADs whatever rolls off the factory floor and give the ADs total discretion over who gets what. So, ADs shorten the wait for their biggest spenders while walk-in nobodies get bumped to the bottom of the list.

By not taking control of the distribution system to make it fair, Rolex has both allowed and encouraged the corrupt system now in place.

I really encourage the watch community to boycott this BS.

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Having a power reserve indicator on the back of a watch makes no sense. The indicator that shows how much energy is left in a machine should be where the operator can see it while operating it.

Function over form.

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The Tag Heuer Solargraph line has some of the most accurate quartz watches ever made. And, as far as I know, they’re not even thermocompensated. Mine is exactly 0.0 seconds off over the last 30 days. It is more accurate than my digital Casios. I’ve beaten the shit out of my Solargraph and it just keeps working.

Also, the lume is excellent and the lightweight titanium is great. And of course, it’s solar powered.

I find it interesting that spring drive has electromagnets continuously interacting with a spinning ferrite magnet, yet this process doesn’t seem to generate much heat from induction. Why is that? I’m surprised parts aren’t melting inside the watch!