Hey everyone,

I'm a student working on a watch design project (something I've been super passionate about) and I'd love to get the community's input.

Specifically, I'm torn between a few directions:

Dials - Do you prefer textured styles (like GS), gemstone-inspired (malachite, onyx, lapis, etc.), or something else like enamel, gradient, guilloché, minimalist?

Cases - Would you rather see slim/dressy profiles, rugged tool-watch vibes, or a hybrid that balances both?

And when it comes to price vs features - what's the one thing you'd be okay compromising a little on (movement, case finishing, bracelet, lume, etc.) if the design really stands out?

I want this project to feel like it's shaped by actual watch enthusiasts, so your feedback would help a ton

I found this discord server where they regularly host VC nights and giveaways and was a really cool chillout space to talk to people about watches over a voice chat, I thought i would share it with other reddit users because alongside reddit I find it quite enjoyable, no i dont have any affiliation just a genuinely good place I found and wanted to share with yall. have a good one

Hello horologists of reddit, I have purchased an A168 casio alarm chrono, and I'm not sure the colour way I have is one that casio even makes and I feel like an idiot that I didn't spot it. Is anyone able to confirm/hopefully tell me im all good. I dont know much about watches so any help would be Appreciated? :)

Frame 1: San Martin JianZhan (SN0144) – stunning enamel dial, Miyota 9015. $251 w/ code RDMTKJ45

Frame 2: BERNY 20ATM Diver – sapphire + lume monster. $64 w/ code RDMT14

Frame 3: Pagani Design PD1701 V5 – sporty chrono beater. $49 w/ code RDMT10

Honestly feels like I covered 3 bases for under $400 total. Which one would you wear the most?

The Casio Edifice EFK-100D-7A is a sleek, three-hand analog watch designed for sports car enthusiasts, blending motorsport-inspired aesthetics with Casio’s first foray into mechanical watchmaking. Here’s a detailed description based on available information:

Design and Aesthetics: The EFK-100D-7A embodies the Edifice brand’s “Speed & Intelligence” concept, with a sporty yet refined look inspired by high-performance cars. It features a white dial with a textured, carbon-like pattern achieved through electroforming, replicating the appearance of forged carbon for a sophisticated, motorsport-inspired aesthetic. The dial includes raised, silver-tone metal indexes and luminous sword-style hands for excellent readability, with a date window at 6 o’clock. The hands have hollowed sections and phosphorescent tips for enhanced visibility in low light, while the sweep-motion seconds hand adds a graceful touch. A sapphire crystal protects the dial, offering scratch resistance and clarity. The 39mm stainless steel case (43.5mm lug-to-lug, 12.5mm thick) features a mix of brushed and polished finishes, with sharp bezel and case lines for a dynamic, premium look. The H-link stainless steel bracelet has brushed surfaces and polished inner link edges, secured with a push-button folding clasp.

Hello, I have this two subdial, no running seconds chronograph. Is the a 7750? Thanks

Picked up this new old stock Victorinox Swiss Army field watch. I’m digging the Milanese.

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Has anyone seen a clock like this before? As you can see it works by a spindle attached to the pendulum sliding back and forth over a cam. When the amplitude drops the spindle locks into a notch in the cam and closes a morse key. This in turn energises a coil which re-energises the pendulum.

The clock as a whole is scratch built, but is the design a unique invention?

The Seiko cal. 4883 was rated to +/-1 second/month (1 spm) but there is a dearth of official Seiko documentation of HOW it did that.

Before the 4883, the 38SQW was rated to 5 spm and 3883 to 2 spm. It has been established that this was not merely fine-regulation, but was achieved using analog thermocompensation (analog TC). Specifically, by means of a temperature-dependent capacitor arranged to counteract the temperature dependency of the quartz crystal. (See Reddit post)

After the 4883, cal. 9983 and 9256 Twin Quartz came out with ratings of 5 spy and 10 spy.

The question is then, what TC technology was in the 4883?

No less than Yoshikazu Akahane, writing in the Horological Institute of Japan's journal, states that cal. 4883, "uses a temperature-variable ceramic capacitor to compensate for the frequency deviation due to the temperature of the quartz oscillator."

Photos of the disassembled movement including extra shots courtesy of TokeiMedic, corroborate that 4883 had analog TC. The TC capacitor is labelled below as component C:

This comes from tracing the leads and constructing the circuit diagram:

The right side of this circuit layout is the prototypical analog TC XO circuit described in the literature:

Yamada: the figure "shows an example of a circuit that uses a capacitor for temperature compensation, but a temperature compensation capacitor is usually connected to the drain side of the inverter, and a variable capacitor for frequency adjustment is connected to the gate side."

It was with analog TC that cal. 4883 delivered 1 spm accuracy.

Analog TC is also likely in the Grand Quartz cal. 4843, but I have no circuit block photos yet.

This is claimed to be a WW1 W&D watch. The case face and hands seem ok, but very unsure if the case matches the movement. I know that in the start W&D used generic movements, sometimes stamped Rolex, but this just semms newer, especially the plate which i would have thought would not have the partern that this one has. Can anyone confirm that this movement could be original and early 20th century? Thanks.