Horological Meandering

I first saw this watch on the wrist of Lothar Schmidt (CEO of Sinn) when he was in town for Tempus II. Sinn is not a company that is in the business of making fine quality finished watches but this one comes close. I liked it so much that I asked Mr Schmidt to arrange for one for me to photograph and he and Hour Glass kindly made arrangements for me to photograph this watch. This is a huge 44mm watch that looks a lot bigger due to the very thin bezel. The colour combination works wonderfully and the machine turned dial is quite entertaining - esp to see the light effects on the guilloche.

I have several images which I will be publishing a photomontage - so do check out my blog for it. Meanwhile just for fans here, I have below a large desktop wallpaper. Please honour my copyrights when you download and use this image.

Thanks.

HarryTan

Harry,

No - I had not seen this before and I was at Tempus 2008 looking at the brand executives' wrists

I must say that it is a change for Sinn that is usually associated with tool-watches for Land, Sea and Air.

This regulator somehow reminds me of early Ulysse Nardin watches in the revival period after Mr Schnyder took over......or hints of early Chronoswiss under Mr Lang (without the coin-edged bezels). Maybe it's the classic proportions that they all have in common. Very nice!

Also clean and crisp picture - what % was original shoot and what % was PhotoShop?

Regards,

MTF

photoshopping whatsoever. Notice the shadow speck mark on the left of the dial (below the 50) which is a speck on my sensor. :-(
The only thing that I did to this image is that I cropped it to make it look straight up and not tilted and of course reduce the size to 900x600.

For the wall paper I adjusted the brightness, contrast, cleaned the shadow on the dial and sharpened up the image and laid it on a larger black base. 

 

nt

I had one the Sinn regulateur on SS with the same dial as shown. Is this a SS? It looks like a RS casing - not sure if it exists as I am out of touch.
It is a brilliant looking timepiece with unitas 6497 (or issit 6947 ?) but at 44mm, it wore a little too big for me. Regrettably, I had to let it go.
At tempus, I saw a white gold version in limited production with grey markers on the dial. Wanted to take a closer look at it but the hostile lady representative was roaring down someone's throat so I decided to pass.

When I met Lothar Schmidt on the first day at Tempus, he had it on his wrist which was a working model basically to gather feedback (and I met him to interview him). Unfortunately he was there only on the first day and he could not show the watch to others as he was booked solid for interviews all day.

I have shot the SS before and I too thought that it was much too big to be a dress watch and I just found the stretched numbers disconcerting. If it were 40-42 and had a more conventional marker instead of a stretched number, I would have seriously considered it. The RG with this brown croc really is as nice as its in the photo. The colour combination with the guilloche dial is quite handsome IMO. But still, the numbers are a problem. Two other personal issues for me - the use of the Unitas - which is rather pedestrian and not well finished and the price point. They would have done better to close up the watch with a solid back and kept it simple.

Having said all that, its still a handsome watch to photograph.

Cheers
HarryTan

There is also a black dialed version of the SS as well but without the stretched markers. For me, that works better but its still a huge watch to be dress. Maybe one day I will photograph that to compare.