Who Actually Uses Wristwatch Complications?

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by Lone Wolf

My grail watch is a Rolex perpetual with moonphase - screw the Daytona (not really, I might buy one if I stumble across the right one at list, although my Tudor scratches my chrono itch).

Such a thing exists? Or are you talking vintage?

 

[robin]

Originally Posted by Lone Wolf

From what I've read, you have to sign an agreement saying that you'll pay for any rescue effort that results if you set it off, and the FAA will fine you $15k if you broadcast a false distress signal. The former sounds like it could be a marketing gimmick but I don't doubt the latter.
Both are true, though you (or your next of kin) will still get a bill from the government even if you don't sign an agreement.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Such a thing exists? Or are you talking vintage?
Actually, "perpetual" is incorrect. There are vintage Moonphases to be had, however, if one is willing to spend the cost of a house.

 

[JeffsWood]

Originally Posted by 0b5cur1ty

Everyone knows the diving bezel is meant for timing parking meters.

+1 it is on the one complication I do use.

The watch I have on now has month, date, day (yeah I know it's Friday - thank god for this watch) and phases of the moon.

I have had this watch for 8 or 9 years and bought the face cause - it "looked cool". Actually use the functions - no way.

Every other watch I have bought has just told the time and date and may have a diving bezel

 

[LabelKing]

Personally, I've always thought the simple Vacheron minute repeater wristwatch to be achingly beautiful in its simple elegance:

However, I think a lot of those useless complications look a whole lot better on the larger-sized pocket-watches.

Charles Oudin 20K gold double-barrel self-winding perpetuelle watch with quarter-repeating, (60-hour power reserve indication), RÃ

aumur thermometer, and Robin chronometer lever escapement.

Patek 18K gold keyless, astronomical, minute-repeating pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and split-seconds chronograph

 

[teddieriley]

^^LK, do you actually use pocket watches?

 

[Roger]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Personally, I've always thought the simple Vacheron minute repeater wristwatch to be achingly beautiful in its simple elegance:

Clarify this for me, LabelKing: Does a minute repeater chime every minute? Lord, I'd find that distracting.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by teddieriley

^^LK, do you actually use pocket watches?

Yes, here is my Charles Frodsham from 1851, very fine English maker:

 

[bigbjorn]

I have a IWC UTC. I travel a lot for work, and am in frequent phone contact with colleagues in Europe. I use the coordinated universal time function of it at least two or three times a day. Before this job, I was a professional rally co-driver. I used the chrono function on my (digital) watch about 16 times per day during an event. That's one of the few jobs that really requires a complication, though.

 

[zjpj83]

Originally Posted by Roger

Clarify this for me, LabelKing: Does a minute repeater chime every minute? Lord, I'd find that distracting.

No, only when you manually activate the mechanism.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Roger

Clarify this for me, LabelKing: Does a minute repeater chime every minute? Lord, I'd find that distracting.
It chimes the minutes since the last quarter if you press down the slide.

 

[zjpj83]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

It chimes the minutes since the last quarter if you press down the slide.

A standard minute repeater chimes the hours, then the quarters, then the minutes. If it is 3:20, it will chime three times for the 3 o'clock, then once for the first quarter, then five times for the extra five minutes.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by zjpj83

A standard minute repeater chimes the hours, then the quarters, then the minutes. If it is 3:20, it will chime three times for the 3 o'clock, then once for the first quarter, then five times for the extra five minutes.
Indeed, it does.

I have a minute repeater. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore.

 

[HomerJ]

Fun UN minute repeater.
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[andyw]

Originally Posted by andyw

Alarm, dual time zone and chronograph.

Here are some images..........

Image 1
IWC Ingeneur Chrono Alarm
IWC Porsche Design Worldtimer (dual time zone and alarm)
Le Coultre Alarm

Image 2
Zenith "Big Blue" El primero Chronograph

Image 3
Enicar Sherpa Jet (dual time zone and internal rotating bezel)

Image 4
Le Coultre Master Mariner Deep Sea (internal rotating bezel)