Random watch thread 2

[Raza]

This guy has done a superb job of selling me a quartz dress watch that I wokld neve wear. I want one. https://youtu.be/LXpjjIDz1BM

I don’t say this often, but that shape, with that strap, and in that size, that watch looks incredibly feminine to me. And I think that’s just the Cartier Tank shape. Something about it just has inherent femininity. The only wrist it looked at home on was Princess Diana’s—timeless, classic, gorgeous, just as she was. But also, very much feminine, as she was.

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that “men’s watches are X in diameter and Y in feature”, which is why I was surprised at my reaction, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like the YouTuber pilfered his wife’s watch whenever it’s on his wrist, especially on that light blue-gray apple skin strap.

[geoffbot]

We men need elephant leather yeah!

[geoffbot]

This is cool! If I had 155k for a watch it might be this one https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...flee-pow-camp/

[Raza]

We men need elephant leather yeah!

It’s the color that’s the problem, not the fact that it’s made of actual trash (though the creative use of food scraps is certainly to be lauded).

[tribe125]

I don’t say this often, but that shape, with that strap, and in that size, that watch looks incredibly feminine to me. And I think that’s just the Cartier Tank shape. Something about it just has inherent femininity. The only wrist it looked at home on was Princess Diana’s—timeless, classic, gorgeous, just as she was. But also, very much feminine, as she was.

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that “men’s watches are X in diameter and Y in feature”, which is why I was surprised at my reaction, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like the YouTuber pilfered his wife’s watch whenever it’s on his wrist, especially on that light blue-gray apple skin strap.

The cabochon may not help that impression, but then Cartier have rheir own design code, and you either go for it or you don’t.

I had a colleague once who was overtly masculine in most respects, but he had a similar Cartier and it suited him.

[geoffbot]

Reverso isn't a million miles out

[geoffbot]

I didn't know what fifty fathoms was or why blancpain named it so. Now I do. Was I the only ignoramus?

[Strela167]

[tribe125]

I didn't know what fifty fathoms was or why blancpain named it so. Now I do. Was I the only ignoramus?

Almost certainly.

[Raza]

I didn't know what fifty fathoms was or why blancpain named it so. Now I do. Was I the only ignoramus?

It was named for the depth rating, wasn’t it?