Hybrid watches
Hi All, I am interested in your responses (emotional or otherwise) to hybrid (electrical + mechanical) watches. Hybrids are becoming a very recognisable and accepted concept in cars where the advantages of power at low revs from an electric motor are comb...
For me personally...
...I prefer my mechanical watches "straight up, no chaser." Please leave the electronics at home when it comes to wristwatches. However, I do think these Linde Werdelin watches with their mountable dive computers, etc. are very cool. The module concept wo...
personally...
Personally I like their existance, but have no interest in owning one myself. As for other Purists, I'd bet that the majority do not favour such watches, but I'd also bet that most wouldn't turn their nose up at a Seiko Spring Drive.
Look at it from another angle...
Finally.... the car industry is starting to learn from the watch industry. How do you reduce the costs, make more reliable, give greater autonomy to a watch? Make it electric, less parts, smaller, simpler production. Look at the difference in production c...
Spring Drive?
Don, No No No I say..... Go back to mechanical hand wind, real spring drive cars! Big key in the back and good friends like Noddy and Big Ears to help with the winding and A-W-A-Y we go........ Regards, MTF