I got into watches in 2022 because I had some dressing room pressure from a date. A brief study indicated that the automatic quartz movement is actually on-brand for me as a techie 😛 so I got a mint Seiko Kinetic Perpetual 2016, second-hand on Carousell, part of a central banker's dowry which he was liquidating.
( What a gaudy-ass motherfucker : SNP114P2 )
A few weeks later someone asked me if it was an A. Lange & Söhne Datograph - and we figured out that the complication the two watches had in common was the Outsize Date.So roughly, here's what that's all about. A. Lange & Söhne is a marque with a long history. In 1994 they relaunched with this :
And the inspiration for that complication is said to be this :
You can read about the opera house's clock and IT'S place in the history of clocks, here.
And then well, along came Seiko in 2005 with this press release :
Anyway, my Seiko's original colours are way too loud for my brand, so I've been toying with its facade.
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