I've never liked heavy watches and while I accept that for some specific roles a watch is a tool and that tool needs to be sturdy, very few of us actually need (dunno how many want) massive 300meter dive watches.
So I thought I'd explore how porky modern watches have become with this assortment
The SNK805 tips the scales at 61.5g
yet my beautiful 1965 Sportsman dress watch a mere 39g
while its sibling in green with leather straps a much lighter (but still hefty) 71.3g
while my much more elderly 1979 model Sports 100 screw down crown semi-diver (which has been diving a bit) is 80.9g
which is pretty darn close (9g) to the SRPE with light weight leather pants on.
So to my mind watches are getting chunkier and heavier and (as I showed earlier) thicker.
The thicker a watch is, the further out from the wrist it sits and the more you notice its weight.
I have no idea why this trend is, all I can think is that everyone is starting to just follow the fashion started by Rolex; making things bigger. Sadly the Rolex classics (such as the Goldfinger Bond or the Col Kurtz Rolexes) are actually not as thick and chunky ... I have no idea why everyone is after these bricks, are they compensating?
Currently the watches I have which feel most comfortable to wear are the Sportsman, the SNK805 and most comfortable and balanced of all is the Sports 100.
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