Thanks for another fine round up Tim. The Longines is available without the flyback function, it's still a chunk of watch but slightly slimmer and more affordable than its sibling. The vulcain is more my size and budget though.
Hello, if you have a moment you might want to have a look at the Bravur La Vuelta with the black subdials. It's only 38.2mm and looks a bit like a mini planet ocean. It's not such a "rock"as you put it and is a nice size for a chronograph.
Love the Meraud in both colors. I compare it with the Omega Speedmaster Professional with the 321 movement that is selling for over $20k in the aftermarket and impossible to get from the AD. I know the moon landing story in not comparable but the movement is very close. Am I missing something in this comparison? By the way I have a Speedy Pro and love it. It is my favorite watch of all time.
Hi Tim! How is your Seagull 1962 Plan B chronograph working? I bought one just like it and I've been using it practically every day for about 6 months (incredible +2 seconds/day accuracy). This Seagull is a excellent chronograph for the price in this vintage style. Best regards from Brazil 🇧🇷
I guess as honorable mentions with similar style could be Excelsior Park the EP series, Siduna both Expedition and Aviation and Eza both Firefighter and Sealander. Although Eza makes more divers than anything else. But never the less, an excellent video as always. I love your work Tim and the style of watches you like. Cheers from Canada.
Nice comparison video 👍. Unfortunately, the Longines at 17mm thick is too much for any wrist…and too expensive - not IWC Ingenieur expensive - but still too much. The Vulcain has a great look, is well sized and reasonably priced.
Thought tacymeter scales are unit independent: complete one foot, metre, or mile in 15 seconds and one will complete 240 of them in an hour. At the same speed, of course.
Longines and Oris seem poised to challenge Tudor for that 3-4.5K market. Tudor seems to have responded at Watches & Wonders by improving the proportions of some of their watches. Longines has so much to offer, but the proportions have been needlessly off on some of these new releases. The chronograph featured here, personally, I’d prefer a manual wind as a way of shaving off a few mm of height. That 1930s heritage pilots watch, the original was already 40mm, simply huge for its time. They made the new version 42…. Not needed. Longines needs to rethink their sizing.
I love old chronographs wristwatches for the looks but they're so useless, back in the 20th century they were more useful for a lot of things but people didn't use them much more. A wrist mounted chrono is a nonsense in itself. Love them ...
