Tim, Awesome show with some really off the beaten path pieces. Not sure if you've done this, but would you consider an episode where you dive deeper into the mechanics of some of the things you called out in the watches on tonight's show? Fusee & chain, remontoir, constant force, etc. I'd love to understand more about how some of these things work, and also believe it would create a greater appreciation for some of the watches you feature from time to time! Thanks as always.
Hi Tim,the Porsche Indicator chronograph has a 10 hour digital indicator not 10 minutes. Big watch but built to wear over a racing suit for 10 hour laps.
Great show as usual from Tim and crew, missed the live 😑 I am always limited to 36-42mm range, while I tend to like more smaller watches. I definitely like one or two watches that were too large for me. The only one that I got was the MAD1 buy I think the idea of the watch is to stand out on the wrist.
I bought the 42mm JLC Polaris Chronograph earlier this year. I’ve gradually been moving toward more traditional, non-all-wrist watches and realized it was too large for my 7” wrist. I replaced it with the 38mm Cartier Pasha Seatimer Chronograph Millennium.
I'm a big guy who would love to wear elegant smaller watches. Sadly anything smaller than 44mm looks out of proportion on my large wrists. Larger watches seem to get a bad rap these days, which is a shame. Now I'm getting older, I find larger dials much easier to read too.
Thanks for the reply Tim. If you love the watch wear it anyway. Also as you lnow, some of these large watches are intended to be worn over cuff (racing)or wet suit.
I've tried on a Bronzo myself not too long ago. I didn't even need to put it on, I could tell it was too large. I'd never seen a 47mm Panerai before, I was shocked how big it was in person. The height adds to the impression of size too.
This episode included a lot of talk on watch size. Tim often says 'big is the look'. I think the function of a watch should also be taken into account when discussing size. For instance, if you are actually a military diver wearing a Panerai, than you certainly don't care about the watch looking too big on you, you just care about it being legible. Same thing goes for pilots and pilot's watches. If you wore a thick coat and gloves hiking somewhere, and you wore a 36mm datejust, you'd be right to say it's too small because you couldn't read it, even though it might 'look' right on your wrist in other circumstances. So I think we need to take our surroundings into account when we choose out watches. In an office, in my view, a 47mm Panerai just looks out of place, no matter how big your wrist might be. Fighting on a battlefied somewhere in a warzone, a 36mm datejust will be out of place. It's about context as much as it is about wrist size.
