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SpiritOne
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Mar 25, 2018
Simplicity and elegance come to mind. These watches tend to have clean dials and tuck under one's sleeve without effort. However, a watch can branch out a tad without unbecoming of a dress watch as well.
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Take for example the Seiko Sarb 035. A favorite amongst the WIS and it has lume! It sports baton hands and a date window at 3' o'clock.
38mm diameter, 20mm lugs, and thin this watch can fit under your shirt cuff without problem. The minute and seconds hands extend all the way and the hour hand is near the hour bars. The dial is clean and has minimal markings. Mostly just Seiko and automatic 23 jewels being noticed by most. While dressy it can be a bit sporty and worn on the weekend as well.
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The Orient Bambino, another thin watch.
While relatively simply it comes with an elegant domed acrylic crystal and you'll notice a slight indent on the second and minute hands near their ends (as a result of the glass coming down. Once again notice how the dial is lacking in overt complications. In other words the dial is not busy
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Here we have the Tissot Le Locle. Thin and elegant. If you look at the caseback you'll find it to be unique. The watch has a waffle pattern to it (likely stamped by a machine) and roman numerals. Again while there is a pattern to the dial... it isn't very busy. As with any good and proper watch the hands are nice and lengthy with the hour hand being short enough to take note of it as such.
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Now we have something that is not a dress watch. As you can see with the Glycine F104 it's leans towards classic and sporty. Okay, so imagine the 3 earlier watcher with these lugs. They would not be dress watches in that case. So, simply downward curving lugs are usually part of a dress watch as well.
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Now this is where we start to enter a bit of controversy.
This here is the Glycine Combat Sub.... a diver. However it's very thin (11 I believe) and flat. Paired with a proper strap this can fit into a dress watch scenario with a bit of sport to it. Thin, clean design, and good job with the hands. However, it's larger and has a bezel.
So while one can wear it and call it a dressy diver watch, it is in no way an actual dress watch. Therefore, in a round about way yes, it is up to personal tastes what watch you wear and some watches are up to personal opinion. The fact is for the most part it's just a category with its definition and there isn't an abundance of grey area to throw anything and everything under the heading.
What's really up to personal taste is if the situation genuinely requires you to wear a dress watch, not what is a dress watch.
Cloaca
1906
Mar 26, 2018
SpiritOneThat Glycine Combat Sub is super thin and small. I have one that I bought from a drop here but have never worn because of that. I don't see the market for that watch. If you're into tool dive watches it's just kind of ... pussy. If you're into dive watches and want a petite little dive watch-looking thing for dress purposes, maybe, but it's such a mockery of dive watches, such a sacrilege, that I'd say get a regular dress watch or a thinner version of some other sport watch, maybe a 42 mm Glycine Incursore. If you're of a historical bent and realized that the Combat Sub is the same size as classic Rolex divers ... I don't know what to say. It's still a pussy watch. The definition of pussiness has changed. That was then. This is now.
(The Glycine Combat Sub Aquarius, on the the other hand, is great.)
SpiritOneWhat is the band on your Sarb? Nice combo. I'm looking for something in that grey sort of color to put it on for this summer.
SpiritOne
719
Mar 26, 2018
Vintage1982BenzThanks! Unfortunately they're out of stock at the moment. Actually, I was thinking about pick a few more up as well. I suppose you could email him and see when they'll be in stock again.
But 2 get 1 free and there's usually a 15% of coupon you can find by a Google search. Very soft feel and texture though.
https://www.blusharkstraps.com/collections/canvasoft
SpiritOne
719
Mar 30, 2018
Cloaca............
So a diver has to be big for you to wear it? That's it? Nothing else?
Cloaca
1906
Mar 30, 2018
SpiritOneI like some divers and I don't like others, but I can't reduce it to a set of rules or filters. For instance, I like wacky handsets and I like minimalistic rectangular handsets. But I don't like sword-style handsets on divers. But I have one with a sword-style handset that I really like. The bezel makes up for it.
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