r/watchHotTakes

All of your modded Casios/G-shocks are ugly as FUCK. Stop ruining them.

They're perfectly fine from the factory. Call me crazy, but if I want another kind of band, I buy a different watch. I like resin straps. I like folded links. I just bought the DW-9052 V-1 with the factory nylon strap and it looks and feels amazing. It doesn't look like an ugly-ass hodgepodge of Aliexpress garbage. None of my watches will EVER have ugly-ass strap adapters. The farthest I would go is buying a custom-tapered strap to match the admittedly stupid dimensions of the stock straps (16-18mm flaring out to 22-24mm IIRC). Even then, there are plenty of factory strap options for all of the watches I want. You won't catch me putting my own mesh strap on a Casio. I'm buying one on FACTORY mesh. I'm a purist, so sue me.

Straps are just the most popular part to modify. As for the rest of the watch...stop ruining everything else too. I keep seeing ugly-ass aftermarket metal mod kits, and they all look like shit. Wow, they're metal. Who cares, if they're finished like shit? A lot of people still care, apparently, but not me. I wanted a metal G-Shock so I bought one. It's finished beautifully. It's an absolute compliment magnet. It looks so shiny and amazing that normal (non-watch) people actually tell me how cool it is. Nobody cares that you got a really good price on your Aliexpress shit heap. It looks cheap because it is.

Quit it with the damn LCD filters, too. Yeah, bro, let me put some distracting, colorful film over my nice, crisp LCD display. I notice the difference in crispness between the A158 and A168, and a stupid extra filter would mess with the crispness that I so love. I like watches. I care about details. I don't need OOOOO PRETTY COLORS on my screen. The most egregious foul that could be committed is when people cover up the little analog clock on the "Casio Royale" (I hate that name btw. so dorky, in a bad way). It's the last thing you can do to say "I don't actually like this watch. I just like to pretend that I'm being creative and "expressing myself". Now, please compliment me because I changed the parts of my watch to be uglier".

I'm literally staring at my pile of stock Casios/G-shocks and it's filling me with unbelieveble pride, knowing that I'm enjoying my watches properly.

u/4thBan5thAccount — 8 hours ago

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All watches over 1k should come with a tracker and a kill switch

If we can make mechanical watches as advanced as they are now, there should be a tracker or way to track where your watch is if stolen and I mean to the exact location, not by serial numbers or any other metric. It has to be something you could only have removed by a professional and has to be obscure to find, as thieves won’t ever know where to look or what to do

As an example “ have a look at this! , that bastard who nicked my Nautilus last week has just walked into fucking Burger King!, wonder if I can catch him before they bag up the fries! “

There should also be a kill switch, to completely disable and even destroy the watches components from the inside. I’d even advise the likes of Rolex to make a fake dial to add to their watches, so if you’re going through London you press a button near the crown and the dial flips over to one that says something like “nobstorm” and it’s a really god awful leopard print design so anyone who tried nicking it will see it’s an Amazon shitter and refuse the theft.

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u/Confident_Leg2370 — 2 hours ago

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People who offer their unsolicited negative opinions about another person's watch need to STFU

I get it, your parents were the helicopter kind who told you could do no wrong, and you've never been in a real fight in your life. Believe me, it shows when you sit down at your phone to tell someone who didn't ask that their watch is too big, too small, they overpaid, it's no good.

You brave keyboard warrior, you! Offering that unsolicited counsel to someone showing the watch they bought and are so happy with, that they just wanted to show off! You'll show them.

Seriously, if nobody's asking, unless you've got something nice to say, keep your opinion to yourself. Nobody cares, and I'm sure we'll figure out you're an asshole soon enough anyway.

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u/bpgluckman — 10 hours ago

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Nivada Grenchen [Antarctic Erotic] overpriced overhyped

This watch with penguins f*cking on the back will be sold on April 30 by Nivada Grenchen. 1700+tax for this watch is absolutely mental. Lume also fucking sucks. Thoughts?

u/Suspicious_Oil_6253 — 12 hours ago