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

[ronscuba]

Foo, curious, what watches do you have that you intend to keep ?

My new watch. No thorough analysis or process to determine what is stylish, tasteful, etc. I like it, I bought it.

 

[Alcibiades]

I was in the Cartier store last week buying a bracelet. I tried on a couple of watches; medium stainless with white dial and the large in two tone, white dial. The large definitely looked better on me, but I think I liked the full stainless model better. It is really a substantial, attractive watch. I will likely end up getting the large at some point. For the price you are getting a ton of value (resizable bracelet and removable bracelet, additional leather strap, etc)

If I end the year with a three watch collection (DJ41, Santos, and something like a Seamaster on rubber), I will be very happy

 

[Neville Southall]

Foo, curious, what watches do you have that you intend to keep ?

My new watch. No thorough analysis or process to determine what is stylish, tasteful, etc. I like it, I bought it.


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[NakedYoga]

I was in the Cartier store last week buying a bracelet. I tried on a couple of watches; medium stainless with white dial and the large in two tone, white dial. The large definitely looked better on me, but I think I liked the full stainless model better. It is really a substantial, attractive watch. I will likely end up getting the large at some point. For the price you are getting a ton of value (resizable bracelet and removable bracelet, additional leather strap, etc)

Which model? Santos?

 

[Alcibiades]

Which model? Santos?

Yes - Santos. I do think the medium vs large is purely a wrist size / taste question (though I do kind of like the no date aspect of the medium)

 

[sinnedk]

Foo, curious, what watches do you have that you intend to keep ?

My new watch. No thorough analysis or process to determine what is stylish, tasteful, etc. I like it, I bought it.


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Oh wow thats awesome, where did you find it? I thought AP sold out like rolex...

 

[Texasmade]

Oh wow thats awesome, where did you find it? I thought AP sold out like rolex...

He might have gotten it from the AP boutique?

AP boutique allocations are a lot more fair than the Rolex and Patek allocations.

 

[UnFacconable]

@UnFacconable

I sympathise with some of what you're saying, but I do think there are at least two diametrically opposed approaches to style that can both work. Let's call them the effortless and the recherché. Either in its pure form would be an aberration as each needs elements of the other to work, but any stylish person I can think of is either predominantly effortless or predominantly recherché.

Having said that, I do agree that elaborate, ad hoc, unselfconsciously disingenuous rationalisations of middlebrow midtown bro taste are insufferable.

Just to be clear, I’ve never said that Foo’s approach (or others like him) is incorrect or even inferior. Just that it’s not exclusively correct. He has made the claim that his way is the only way. Because Foo.

I don’t take issue with people who choose to nerd out here (obviously) but I recognize that other people get their in their own ways. Maybe Steve McQueen spent all his time figuring out which mock turtleneck to buy, I honestly have no idea, but I’m sure there are plenty of style icons who didn’t get there the Duke of Windsor way.

Long story short I’m a big tent guy here.

 

[ronscuba]

Yes - Santos. I do think the medium vs large is purely a wrist size / taste question (though I do kind of like the no date aspect of the medium)

I have a small wrist, but got the large. The Santos being curved, hugs the wrist. The look and style of the large on my wrist is kind of like a cuff.

 

[double00]

Show me wear I said that there was only one right answer.

Look we get it - you think everything is a battle and that only your currently chosen way is correct and everyone who has any other view is wrong. It’s tiresome and obviously naive but you have stuck to it for years.

It’s quite obvious that I am not being exclusionary. I rarely criticize other people’s subjective choices. There is plenty of room in the world and on this forum for people with varying views who arrive at those views in their own idiosyncratic ways. You seem to have trouble with that where almost no one else does. It’s a bizarrely authoritarian view on something so personal and trivial.

I will be honest: I didn’t make it to the rest of your post yet because you started off so hilariously and obviously wrong in a way that only you can. Peak Foo.

EDIT: read the rest. More obvious misunderstanding by you. I never said that education or refinement of views was incorrect. You said that it was the ONLY way. Which is quite obviously incorrect. There are many ways to achieve desired outcomes here. As to your view that your changing tastes are evidence of your virtue: you are completely missing the point. At each step of the journey you have tried to claim the objective high ground on a subjective issue. Everyone can see that, except perhaps you.

Mafoofan vs TheFoo would be worth the effort to figure out time travel

 

[ronscuba]

Oh wow thats awesome, where did you find it? I thought AP sold out like rolex...

I got it at the AP boutique. I was put on the waiting list in Nov after I bought my blue Code chrono.

 

[LA Guy]

So... wow. Holy false dichotomy Batman. A person can have a natural aptitude to be stylish, and that can also be improved through education and knowledge. A person can also be terrible at it, no matter how much time and energy they have put into it, or how much they know about fashion (writ large).

I’m awful at basketball. Love it, but objectively terrible. I practice free throws all the time, I spent time learning from a guy who is in the Guinness book of world records for them. I still suck. Other sports, I have some aptitude for, and formal education has made me better. Good, by most standards, even. But occasionally, there is some kid who learns better and faster, and all the tricks in the book don’t help me. This is just life.

 

[venessian]

Here's a watch with all kinds of design "flaws." But, to its credit...it does have one of the most beautiful Patek bezels ever.

<--- dial asymmetry done pretty well, too --->

 

[radicaldog]

So... wow. Holy false dichotomy Batman. A person can have a natural aptitude to be stylish, and that can also be improved through education and knowledge. A person can also be terrible at it, no matter how much time and energy they have put into it, or how much they know about fashion (writ large).

I'm afraid I don't agree. If someone has a style of the effortless type, then if they overthink it they sort of ruin it. If someone is the recherché type, they shouldn't go with uneducated whims too often, for the same reason. As I said, each type needs a hint of the other, so there is room for growth and cultivation on the effortless side, and room for raw impulses on the recherché side, but I do think the types are at opposite ends of a spectrum, and that the middle of that spectrum is mostly unstylish territory.

But there's a twist: I do think it's possible to start on one end of the spectrum and then, after many years of experience, end up on the other. That's the story we often hear about a long journey that leads to a simple, instinctive style. It's most often a recherché-to-effortless trajectory, but the opposite is also possible: think of someone who over time learns about the finer points of something they initially just happened to like on a whim, etc. It's like losing a ladder after climbing it.

 

[Dino944]

Foo, curious, what watches do you have that you intend to keep ?

My new watch. No thorough analysis or process to determine what is stylish, tasteful, etc. I like it, I bought it.


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Congrats! That's one of my favorite ROs. Hope it brings you many years of enjoyment!

I was in the Cartier store last week buying a bracelet. I tried on a couple of watches; medium stainless with white dial and the large in two tone, white dial. The large definitely looked better on me, but I think I liked the full stainless model better. It is really a substantial, attractive watch. I will likely end up getting the large at some point. For the price you are getting a ton of value (resizable bracelet and removable bracelet, additional leather strap, etc)

I also went with the large Santos, but chose the blue dial. I'm really happy with it and I think its a great value for what it has to offer. If you get the large size, you can also add the rubber strap from the ADLC version to wear in the summer. I'm not really into rubber straps on watches, but I do like this one.