You guys should edit in some closeups of the watches when you're talking about them, I'd like to see them up close rather than admire then from a great distance. After all, a lot of why we like watches are the details!
It is not like that you can wear your dress watch just when you are wearing suits or going to wedding parties. Dress watches fit with a shirt or casual smart outfit as well. So, you can wear them many days at work as well. This at least how I do it and I really enjoy it.
I own a orion 35mm Rose for my dress watch. I wear a suit every day to work and I wear my orion most days , it is the watch I get the most compliments on.
Nice topic, guys! I kind of wanted to tick the dress watch box as well, even though I hardly ever dress up. I got a Seiko Cocktail, which, at 40mm wide and 13mm thick, I don't know if it really counts, but it serves its purpose for me. I actually do wear it fairly often, but tend to wear it casually on suede straps, even with t-shirts. In the future, I could see myself getting a more expensive dress watch to round out the collection (the Glashutte Original Panomatic Lunar with gray ruthenium dial is my current dress watch crush) but I have other things I'd much rather have first. Until then, I think my SARB065, with its versatile dial and semi-vintage look, will suffice just fine.
Yeah, I know -- another comment on a six-week-old video, but I really like the topic. :) I think a large driving force from the move from dress watches to sport watches over the past fifty years has to do with the more casual society we live in. My father always had to wear a suit when he went to work and a small, thin watch that fit easily and comfortably under his long sleeved shirt was a necessity. People used to regularly dress up to go to church every Sunday (no longer). Heck, when I was a kid we had to dress up in our best clothes to get on an airplane! Today, jeans and a polo shirt are considered dressy enough for almost everything we do. Other than for weddings or funerals, we as a society are not really expected to put on "dress clothes" for just about anything else. So the idea we need a small, thin dress watch has really changed with the time. I still like to have a thinner watch like the Bulova 96B230 of Casio GW-M5610 square G-Shock for winter time use when I'm wearing layers of clothing in order to stay reasonably warm, but that's about it. In the summer, it's a Tuna or a Turtle or a Gulfmaster for me. Still, we're watch nerds and that Nomos is really cool. I can totally understand wanting and owning one, not because we "need" it, but be because we desire it as a beautiful timepiece. Because it is.
Many dress watches nowadays are larger than 38mm but they lose the charm, the sophistication. I have an 8" wrist and wear a 34mm Omega from the 50s when I need to dress up. Man, I love it. No date. No numerals. Just the time. Another good vid. --Michael
FOOD FOR THOUGHT WHEN COMING TO OWNING A TYPICAL DRESS WATCH. PRACTICALITY FIRST I GUESS YOU ARE RIGHT. JUST SAW THIS VID AS I WAS LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT TYPE OF WATCHES
Talking about impulse buys...I just had a McDonald's impulse and bought a Big Mac! But seriously I think there are so many other styles of watches nowadays that have dressy aspects that a true dress watch is teetering on extinction. There are plenty of divers that can pass as modern dress watches for my taste anyhow. My only true dress watch is an Orient Bambino Version 4 with cream dial, blue hands, amd Roman numerals. Even then just for summertime fun I swapped out the leather for a shark mesh. Whole new type of look for a dress watch.
One more thing. People now want an SUV watch(an SUW, haha). Something to wear everywhere, all the time. In my dad's and grandfather's eras, you danced with the date you brought, you run what you brung. Now we suffer from too many options and no actual practical need because of cellphones. So we go for the all in one. My granddad had a Seamaster and never took it off. My dad had a Datejust and never took it off. I have had a million watches and always take them off. Haha. I am spoiled for choice. --Michael
I love you guys but you're full of it. Price tag is clouding your judgement. If money was no object you'd love dress watches. I have a JLC Reverso and it only gets worn a few times a year. That's fine by me. Special occasion watch. It's the most expensive piece I have yet it gets worn the least. But it's very special.
Great Video! So, are dress watches redundant? Going the way of the Dodo? I just don't know... Boy, are WE SPOILED ROTTEN !!! As my friends would say...First World Problems! ( Great time to be alive in America!)
You guys should edit in some closeups of the watches when you're talking about them, I'd like to see them up close rather than admire then from a great distance. After all, a lot of why we like watches are the details!
It is not like that you can wear your dress watch just when you are wearing suits or going to wedding parties. Dress watches fit with a shirt or casual smart outfit as well. So, you can wear them many days at work as well. This at least how I do it and I really enjoy it.
I own a orion 35mm Rose for my dress watch. I wear a suit every day to work and I wear my orion most days , it is the watch I get the most compliments on.
Nice topic, guys! I kind of wanted to tick the dress watch box as well, even though I hardly ever dress up. I got a Seiko Cocktail, which, at 40mm wide and 13mm thick, I don't know if it really counts, but it serves its purpose for me. I actually do wear it fairly often, but tend to wear it casually on suede straps, even with t-shirts. In the future, I could see myself getting a more expensive dress watch to round out the collection (the Glashutte Original Panomatic Lunar with gray ruthenium dial is my current dress watch crush) but I have other things I'd much rather have first. Until then, I think my SARB065, with its versatile dial and semi-vintage look, will suffice just fine.
Yeah, I know -- another comment on a six-week-old video, but I really like the topic. :)
I think a large driving force from the move from dress watches to sport watches over the past fifty years has to do with the more casual society we live in. My father always had to wear a suit when he went to work and a small, thin watch that fit easily and comfortably under his long sleeved shirt was a necessity. People used to regularly dress up to go to church every Sunday (no longer). Heck, when I was a kid we had to dress up in our best clothes to get on an airplane!
Today, jeans and a polo shirt are considered dressy enough for almost everything we do. Other than for weddings or funerals, we as a society are not really expected to put on "dress clothes" for just about anything else. So the idea we need a small, thin dress watch has really changed with the time. I still like to have a thinner watch like the Bulova 96B230 of Casio GW-M5610 square G-Shock for winter time use when I'm wearing layers of clothing in order to stay reasonably warm, but that's about it. In the summer, it's a Tuna or a Turtle or a Gulfmaster for me.
Still, we're watch nerds and that Nomos is really cool. I can totally understand wanting and owning one, not because we "need" it, but be because we desire it as a beautiful timepiece. Because it is.
I actually wear my LUC almost everyday, but i agree that every time i wear it im conscious that it scratches easily.
I just started wearing dress watches last year, when I turned 41. Maybe it is a age thing. I was since my teens a dive watch guy.
One of the changes is with the reverso.
which was originally a sports watch.
Many dress watches nowadays are larger than 38mm but they lose the charm, the sophistication. I have an 8" wrist and wear a 34mm Omega from the 50s when I need to dress up. Man, I love it. No date. No numerals. Just the time.
Another good vid.
--Michael
FOOD FOR THOUGHT WHEN COMING TO OWNING A TYPICAL DRESS WATCH. PRACTICALITY FIRST I GUESS YOU ARE RIGHT. JUST SAW THIS VID AS I WAS LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT TYPE OF WATCHES
Talking about impulse buys...I just had a McDonald's impulse and bought a Big Mac! But seriously I think there are so many other styles of watches nowadays that have dressy aspects that a true dress watch is teetering on extinction. There are plenty of divers that can pass as modern dress watches for my taste anyhow. My only true dress watch is an Orient Bambino Version 4 with cream dial, blue hands, amd Roman numerals. Even then just for summertime fun I swapped out the leather for a shark mesh. Whole new type of look for a dress watch.
Are these 2 guys feigelech ? Love your show fellas
I wear my aquis with an orange rubber strap with a suit, no dress watches for me lol
How about a Sea-Dweller on a black nato woven nylon. Goes with anything.
One more thing. People now want an SUV watch(an SUW, haha). Something to wear everywhere, all the time. In my dad's and grandfather's eras, you danced with the date you brought, you run what you brung. Now we suffer from too many options and no actual practical need because of cellphones. So we go for the all in one. My granddad had a Seamaster and never took it off. My dad had a Datejust and never took it off. I have had a million watches and always take them off. Haha. I am spoiled for choice.
--Michael
no close ups , no mics
Zombie apocalypse watch.......a Rolex Submariner. Every time a zombie asks "Is that a real Rolex?", you've got time to reload and blow his brains out.
Where did you graduate from?
My dress watch is a green timex expedition scout, i don't care
I love you guys but you're full of it. Price tag is clouding your judgement. If money was no object you'd love dress watches. I have a JLC Reverso and it only gets worn a few times a year. That's fine by me. Special occasion watch. It's the most expensive piece I have yet it gets worn the least. But it's very special.
Great Video! So, are dress watches redundant? Going the way of the Dodo? I just don't know... Boy, are WE SPOILED ROTTEN !!! As my friends would say...First World Problems! ( Great time to be alive in America!)
could not get through more than about 30 seconds...brutal useless jabbering