What watch do you wear?

Of all the brands, you'd expect IWC to use genuine photos to show off the watch but nope, they use renders and a faked photo of the guy "wearing" it:p

Nice watch, if rather hideously overpriced! The hour hand is the same thickness and almost the same length as the minute hand, low light time telling will be a double glance affair I imagine on that.
 
mrk said:
Of all the brands, you'd expect IWC to use genuine photos to show off the watch but nope, they use renders and a faked photo of the guy "wearing" it:p

Nice watch, if rather hideously overpriced! The hour hand is the same thickness and almost the same length as the minute hand, low light time telling will be a double glance affair I imagine on that.
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Haha I didn't even notice the renders, nice spot.

Very pretty watch though, yeah the hands would annoy me very quickly.
 
I really like the portugieser, the number markers in particular on that model.

I'm not sure low light time telling is a priority when it's a dress watch and there doesn't look to be any lume anyway!
 
I've seen certain movies where rich people events unfold in darkness wearing masks. One needs to know the time and when to get back to the family residence :cry:

Jokes aside, it is a marine deck watch, not technically a dress watch. It is supposed to be an all rounder, honed from the days of them being used on ship decks!
 
Hey I only know because land air and sea military/navy/airforce watches were the historical themes I wanted my collection to end up being so spent a lot of time reading up on them :D
 
Got a reply from Stowa as I asked them what the finishing process on the dial was. They confirmed the dial is actually brass, and is then painted to the gloss you see in my gifs above to give an enamel look. I know enamel dials go through a major faff filled process as not all enamel dials come out perfect so have to be binned. I forgot the percentage but it was noted in a Seiko video on their enamel dials on some higher end models.

Good pub talk, brass dial :p
 
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Oh I read ages ago that they can be a range of metals that are then finished however, some glossy ones being lacquered for depth etc too.
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They can be, but they're definitely nearly all made of brass. It's cheap, easy to work with, malleable, not magnetic and you can weld dial feet on easily.
 
Shame the movement on this isn't anti magnetic like the Laco and Stowa Bronze are though, suppose to be expected given when it came out. Got a demagnetiser just in-case.

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First work day wearing the Marine 36. Really like how the dial and case gleam in this sort of weather we now have. The polishing quality looks/feels exactly like how my NOMOS Ahoi Atlantik was which is what I remember now thinking back to previous watches.It's a deep polish with a similar reflection distortion. WOuld not be surprised if they are made by the same German case maker.

 
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I liked them from ages ago but wished they came in a smaller size and without a date window (heh what's new) :p

I swapped over the Hirsch Arne from the Laco to the Marine Classic and dare I say it, this combo slaps. Once the grey Barton hybrid Cordura arrives I will put that on the Laco as that worked well but the grey calfskin upper just gives the Marine some "pop" if that makes sense. I love it.

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