It’s known for it’s highly legible display with super bright indices and hands that glow far into the night.Īnd I love it - but… it’s after owning the SKX I realised I didn’t want to always look like I had a big, flash watch on my wrist. It was a bargain and I hadn’t yet convinced myself I could even attempt to modify a watch of my own. Along the way I did succumb to buying the classic Seiko divers watch - the SKX007. The 37mm Seiko SNK against the 43mm Seiko SKX. It appealed on a number of levels the watches that served as the donor were well-regarded but pretty cheap, a custom watch has your own personal touch, and best of all it makes you feel more skilled than you actually are. To cut a long story short, I learned of the Seiko “modding” sub-culture where people swap out watch components to make new twists on existing designs. You either buy a Chinese “homage” or you look at a Seiko. So if you’re looking for a mechanical automatic watch and happen to also be a cheapskate, you have two routes. To be honest, I am neither rich, nor insane, so Swiss classics are out of my budget. In any case, all that romantic talk of precision and craft sparked my need to find out more about this arcane world. It’s almost as though Apple wanted not just nerds like me, but Omega Speedmaster owners to take their little touch-screen seriously. But the Apple watch was launched with much referential talk of “horology”, “complications” and “milanese bands” that was hard to ignore. Wait, what?īefore this moment, I’d worn a Swatch chrono on my wrist for over a decade and never even bothered to ask what the buttons did. I’m one of those people that was drawn into the world of mechanical watches because I was interested in the Apple watch. The luminous dial and hands start with an astonishing brightness, but within minutes settle down to a readable glow for the whole night. Oh, and it should be cheap enough to not cause panic attacks when it becomes splattered in porridge. It should be comfortable enough to wear 24 hours-a-day and to be discrete enough that playing with your kids doesn’t risk accidentally leaving them with the imprint of a 45mm gnarled bezel on their heads. The requirements are many but not too demanding it has be splash proof, to be readable all through the night to separate “go back to bed” from “we’ll get up soon”. Or the associated price.īut if I could be presumptuous for a moment, I’d add a new tool watch category - the “parent watch”. That’s not to say their core features aren’t useful to me, but being waterproof doesn’t mean I need a watch to withstand diving to great depths, just as being easy-to-read in the dark doesn’t mean I need NATO standard radioactive promethium coated minute hands. That being so, “tool watches” (as watch enthusiasts call them) such as true divers’, aviators’ or sailors’ watches would be lost on me - or at least merely a bit of fantasy on my part. I don’t scuba, or pilot a plane, or skipper a ship. Breaking a perfectly good watch, hoping to make a better one
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