Horological Meandering

I was ready to press the buy button when I noticed the watch is 15mm thick. Such a shame. I think the watch looks great and at 38.5mm I find it perfect. But I’m so sorry it is so thick. 😢 ...  

...but the art of making thin watches seems to have disappeared, and few seem to care...apart, of course, from the brands chasing the thin 'crown.'

Oh, well, I guess I get to save some money. 🤷🏻‍♂️

There was a topic about AP dual times on here posted this week. When you look at the watches throughout the 90s to the 2000s and onward you can notice the case design gets simplified. Why? No idea. You get thicker/straight walled watches instead of a beau... 

Sinn makes a high quality watch. They're not in the business of making their own chronograph movements and that's fine with me. Their chronographs seem to have thick cases, as I believe they are going for an "overbuilt" feel. It's somewhat ridiculous that... 

Starting at about 10,5mm for a classical Chronofelix, to about 12mm for the Perpetual Calendar Chrono. And they are far from breaking the bank, too. Piaget used to have a reasonably thin Altiplano Chrono, too. But you are right, too many watches nowadays ... 

The blogs list their thickness at 11 mm, while the Habring2 website suggests "about 12 mm" for the Chrono Felix. Habring2 is possibly the best choice for most under 10000 USD, considering you can also customize the dial to your taste.

But they are all relatively thin. And couldn’t agree more in terms of value as well as the ability to make them ‘your own’. Below a Chrono Felix TS, with a little personal touch ❤️ ...  

The wr

The Breitling B09 comes in at just over 13 mm. I find that pretty comfortable. It's in-house, manual wind, no date - all good features IMO.

…chrono of similar proportions and didn’t like the way it felt on the wrist. Besides, I don’t think there is a brick and mortar retailer in the US.

The 103 is 41 x 15.9mm but doesn't feel tall due to the caseback shape and the domed plexi. That being said the 356 is a bit smaller and has a bit of a sugar candy feel to it, on my flat wrist the 103 wears better. If you are after a 2 register chronograp... 

Precisely why I held off on so many chronos. I only look at things thinner than 126500 which is 12.0m. Other than things that are very big step up like 5170s or 1815 chronos, the choices are narrowed down a lot. The only one that is relatively inexpensive...  

Being equipped with a manual wound movement, the 39mm case has a 13.3mm thickness. It exists with a reverse panda configuration similar to that Sinn. And the price is very fair for the specs.

Hight very much depends on 3 things: 1. The shape of the case. Here Sinn unfortunately does not try to conceal it. It‘s a simple robust block, as most Flieger watches are. In contrary e.g. - the Omega Speedmaster! With 13.x mm not thin, but the case shape... 

rather affordable. Before seeing it I looked up the dimensions and told the AD I was going to pass. But when it arrived at the store I looked at it. I still thought those dimensions were awkward but also loved that it was powered by a Valjoux (hand wound)...