What's on your wrist? / What are you wearing? (WRUW)

Hubert

Nothing simple about that one! 👍

MRC

Nothing complicated either 😉



OK, OK, technically I know. Less than four years ago I did not know what "complication" or "reference" meant, I just wore the watches I had. Then I found OTD, Calibre 11 and OF.

And now I am a ruined man 😲

THJunkie

Snap. Though I still think some of the WIS terminology is quite amusing. Makes me chuckle when I see watch reviews talking about a ‘date complication’ or quoting references like train spotters . As interesting as it is, I’ll stick to just wearing them.

Mr_Orange

A date display is a complication. The time is only thing a watch (clocks and pocket watches) originally displayed. Anything added since, including the date, is a complication.

I realise that most people seem to accept that a dte display is the norm and part of a watch mechanism but it requires additional mechanical parts beyond those required to tell the time.

THJunkie

Understood and known. I was referring to the use of the word ‘complication’. There are watch reviewers who bandy it about as if the simple use of the word gives them some gravitas. It comes over as pretentious. They fawn over it as if they are explaining the laws of physics rather than explaining that the watch can display the date and has a timer as well as tell the time. It may have been a ‘complication’ back in the days of gas lighting and steam engines, but it is hardly complicated by modern standards (and Yes I know it is an industry term based on horological tradition). Intrecate (if hand made), and small. But no longer complicated. Though I suspect the English word comes from a translation and that the meaning joked about here is not a precise translation. It is just amusing to the newcomers. Or so I thought.

Mr_Orange

I hear you, although I don't believe the word 'complication' in horology implies 'complicated' but rather the display of something other than running time.

Hubert

You and I; both! 😵‍💫 This hobby is a very expensive passion!

MRC

Hobby? Hobby?

A way of life, a religion, a PASSION! Oh, yes, that is what you said.

Ahhhh, 'scuse me, my Finance Director would like "a quiet word". "In private."

I may be some time.

Yago

..... With 2 complications 😎

VirgileF

Only a fitting today 😉

Jim Dollares

They look gigantic on your wrist...