What is the point? Almost every other watch comes with a bracelet option, why would I want an integrated version? So I can't change to a different type of strap? It's dumb, it's stupid and quite frankly anti-consumer.
If you're using watches as status symbols for clout or respect, just work on your body for better ROI. Ditch the watch. A fit person with an F91W is more impressive than a fatass with a Rolex. Go hit the gym lads. You're going to get a lot more compliments about your weight-loss and being fit than "Hey nice watch."
And this is just me but if you have pudgy wrists and fat fingers, it makes your watch look worse.
Bring on the hate.
Don't care what it is - anything with a half and half bezel immediately just looks like it's trying to be a Rolex. It doesn't look good. We need more single colour GMT bezels. It's literally 24hr time, I don't need a colour to remember that 24 is night and 12 is day. Single colour looks objectively better.
Even with Rolex, the black bezel 116710LN is much much better looking than any BLRO or BLNR. And that GRNR is pure, pure garbage.
My wallet absolutely hates what’s going on right now.
It feels like every other day they drop something from the archives that I suddenly want to buy and the crazy part is it doesn’t even feel like they’re running out of ideas.
They’ve figured out something a lot of our favorite brands still struggle with.
At this point, some brands should probably be taking notes and if they don’t want to take notes, they should probably just start trying to poach the design team.
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.
Cartier tank must for example… old design, fully automated/robotic manufacturing. Really cheap to produce and expensive to market (in order to create the necessity for this “design classic”).
Also, most rolexes, omegas… the moonwatch, fall in this category. But cartier does it deeper because they sell the tank louis or the-way-more-expensive-and-impressive stuff so the sucker buying the tank must feel it “belong”.
BTW: I have a tank, im part of the problem.
Not saying Lange aren’t great, because they are, but they make some very wild dials, case in question is this model. I flip between absolutely hating it then thinking of nothing but wanting to own one, until I saw a comment saying “ why would you pay 80k for a t shirt dial?”
Some things can no longer be unseen
I get it, best movements in the industry and exceptional craftsmanship and detailing. But at the end of the day it just looks like a fancier Seiko 5. Some of their co-branding like Nissan GT-R edition also robs the brand of it's traditional, no nonsense demeanor.
anyway, 4 dollars a pound
Almost nobody notices your expensive watch. Everyone would immediately notice if you spent $10,000 (and weeks of research) on well-fitting and stylish clothes and shoes.
Edit: and it's not just about getting noticed. It's about people perceiving you as attractive, successful, and cool. All of these things are much better served by spending the money on clothes and shoes.
They basically all look like this
Just because you have a 6.25” wrist doesn’t mean you’re stuck wearing watches that are 36-38mm and anything outside that range would look ridiculous on you.
Step back from the specs and remind yourself we’re talking about millimeters here. Stop obsessing over specs and just try them on, I guarantee you can pull off both much larger and much smaller watches than you thought you could.
And besides, some watches are meant to wear at a certain size. Remember, you wear the watch, the watch doesn’t wear you.
This should be a pretty hot take. But I think it’s not a good idea to go watch shopping when your wallet is not ready.
Say your grail watch that’s $30k suddenly becomes available. If you buy it, you’re gonna swim in credit card debt. if you don’t buy it, you feel terrible for missing the chance
Your aura is totally different when you’re ready to swing. The sales can sense if someone’s gonna buy within a few mins. it’s their job. When they sense youre not ready, you’re not really gonna get a good treatment. it’s a waste of both of your time
You can't post your Tudor black bay in peace without some longines fan saying WhAt AbOUt tHe HyDROconquEST. We get it, its a nice watch but no it is not as good as Rolex Sub too. It can fit in a collection but no one who wants a sub would genuinely settle for a HC. Edit for my pre prepared gotcha to the Longines fans who I upset
I will not be taking any questions.
After getting a couple $100-300 watches (these are pretty cool), you start looking at $500-700 (now you’re getting fancy) and then it seems the ascent gets more vertical and suddenly you’re considering $1,200-1,700 (wondering if you should just get a/another motorcycle).
🏍️ > ⏰
Pic from someone else but cropped to remove anything but the watch* I know king charles wears parmigiani fleurier and stealth wealth blah blah. However these plain dial watches look like cheap mall watches till you look at the case back. Over polished, terrible logo, no microadjust and boring dials. So ugly and not underrated, actually it is so overrated when it is competing in a competitive price bracket...
Apparently all Longines produces is either crap, dogcrap, trash, ugly or an homage.
Leave Longines alone :D.
They went from outfitting WWII pilots to renting kiosk space between Auntie Anne’s and Claires Accessories.
