Monster Watches

Indeed watches are getting huge. Personally, I think they are a fasion thing. Watches will maybe stay a bit bigger than they are now, and there will always be people who wear monster Panerais and the like, but what’s currently happening will fade away.

At my work, I see human resource managers, marketeers and the like wearing really big watches. That’s just because big watches are fasion now. When fasion changes, they will wear small watches again, I’m sure of that.

Yesterday, I was at Gerard’s shop (to collect my repaired EZM.1), and I tried on the Omega Railmaster 49.20 mm. It looks really nice, and currently, one could wear it as a fasion statement. The thing would really rule when it were on my wrist, talking to a marketeer at my work, but I’m afraid that I would not wear it within 5 years from now.

The Railmaster is nice by the way. Great dial and hands. It has a real pocket watch movement, like a Railmaster should. As large as the case, and beating at only 18.000 bph. Great sound. The see-through caseback, however, is fake to me. A watch like that should be antimagnetic all the way, with a soft iron inner case and stainless steel back. Too bad big watch companies make watches just for marketing, and not for watch people like us 🙂

When a style becomes dominant (complete with knockoff wannabes) the market eventually rebels and swerves in the other direction. (Klunky watches, and large belt buckles were the rage in the 70s and spontaneously the style collapsed.)

While the article references the historic ‘large’ aviator watches, this is a relative term. The true classic vintage aviators are sensibly sized and mostly nowhere near the size of the current fad models
which are fashion statement only without real historic roots.