Another 40 percent of you will say that any watch under $5,000 and without European pedigree is cheap garbage. There are 40 percent of you who will say a watch with an MSRP of $595 is in no conceivable way a value when you can get Brand X for half that price. I expect three distinct reactions to picking a Seiko for Best Value. Initial setup isn’t intuitive and might require YouTube instructional.Non-watch people won’t appreciate your shrewd choice.Retail price is great value but can be found even lower.Solar-powered and automatic setting via Atomic Clock.Stainless case and band with sapphire crystal.Legendary reliability known for lasting decades with minimal, if any service.Like Butzi’s 911, the beauty comes from form following function. This isn’t a tank of a watch it’s available in either 42 or 39mm, and the titanium case means it is relatively lightweight. Inside the watch is the 25 gemstone WERK 01.200 movement that powered the Chronograph 1. The case is titanium, the band is made from the same leather found in Porsche cars and both the crystal and the caseback are sapphire. Like 911s through the years, it expresses its lineage to the Chronograph 1 while still looking modern. This 1919 Chronotimer Flyback is wearable engineering. Then, another first, the Ocean 2000 was the first watch ever certified water resistant to 2000-meters.īutzi is no longer with us and Porsche Design is now a part of Porsche AG, but the company’s watches are still world-class. Later, the Porsche Design Compass had a watch face that flipped up to reveal a fluid-filled compass in the ground-breaking aluminum body. The imaginatively named, Chronograph 1 was the first PVD(Physical Vapor Deposition) coated watch, and not just PVD, but it was the first black watch, ever. Watches were one of the company’s first products.
But, these aren’t co-branding exercises done for the sake of profit, everything Porsche Design touches pushes technological boundaries. In the last 50 years, the Porsche Design name has adorned everything from watches and sunglasses to toasters and mountain bikes. PD was founded in 1972, in Austria, the ancestral home of the Porsche family. Yes, it was started by Butzi Porsche, designer of the original 911, but it was a different company entirely. Porsche Design didn’t start as part of the car manufacturer.
Those of us who have spent hours ruminating on our disorder have come to some interesting, but totally predictable conclusions. Most of you who self-identify as car enthusiasts haven’t given much thought as to why.
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I made that number up, but I’d put money on it - plus or minus five percent-ish. If you’re a car enthusiast, there’s an 84.7 percent chance you’re also a watch enthusiast.
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