The Watch Appreciation Thread - Part two (Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger LeCoultre,

[NakedYoga]

This was my first adult watch. A gift from parents. it’s beat to **** because what dumb kid knows how to take care of a watch - but I still wear it regularly

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My wife has a very similar watch that she wears nearly every single day. She wears it for everything--riding her horse, going to the beach, etc.

 

[venessian]

Big date is best date.

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Big date is most distracting and hyperbolic date.

It is the watch dial date equivalent of riding some loud huge Harley Hog up the side streets of some tiny Tuscan hill town, when a Vespa or even an Ape is much better suited to the terrain.

 

[ryanluo23]

I've never clicked on this thread but happy to share my Big Date

 

[am55]

 

[montecristo#2]

must be a different America........

We are rapidly becoming a banana republic.

 

[Dino944]

Big date is most distracting and hyperbolic date.

It is the watch dial date equivalent of riding some loud huge Harley Hog up the side streets of some tiny Tuscan hill town, when a Vespa or even an Ape is much better suited to the terrain.

I think it really depends on the watch. There are a few like the Lange 1 and its variations, where it just looks appropriate and it is part of the watch's DNA. But it seemed like after Lange and JLC started using it, several other brands jumped on the bandwagon making watches with this new tacked on complication, simply to be able to say... "We have one too...look at us!."

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

And a lot of the other big dates are superior to JLC/Lange. (It's actually JLC's big date that Lange is using.)

 

[mebiuspower]

GO has the cleanest big date...

 

[mak1277]

GO has the cleanest big date...

I just can't get over the idea that it's a budget Lange though. I don't think I could ever bring myself to buy the GO big dates.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

GO has the cleanest big date...

I would have said this but I didn't want to rehash the tired GO debate.

 

[mebiuspower]

I just can't get over the idea that it's a budget Lange though. I don't think I could ever bring myself to buy the GO big dates.

There are other GO big date models that are not the Pano series aka Lange 1 copy...

 

[Viral]

Rolex date treatment is timeless..........3 O'clock position and the cyclops (or no cyclops as on the older SD) has become the standard for me.

Date models from other brands look like they are trying too hard and failing miserably

 

[ronscuba]

I think it really depends on the watch. There are a few like the Lange 1 and its variations, where it just looks appropriate and it is part of the watch's DNA. But it seemed like after Lange and JLC started using it, several other brands jumped on the bandwagon making watches with this new tacked on complication, simply to be able to say... "We have one too...look at us!."

I prefer a big date on the dial vs a cyclops magnifier on the crystal.

 

[9thsymph]

The mix of romans and sticks doesn't bother you?

It looks like someone with a box of too few matches was trying to make do...

Was just looking at a Patek 5170J. What do you think of that collection of match sticks? Kind of the same strategy...

 

[9thsymph]

Why not just buy the single pass ones?

I’ve had a hard time finding single pass that I like...