The Longines Master 40mm, an otherwise beautiful classic-looking piece, covers up some of the numeral 6 with the moonphase/date dial. The 42mm version notably does not.
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The writing out of “automatic” on the moon phase is what bugs me.
Annoys me even more that for 1/3 of the month the moon phase display will be partially blocked by the stupid small pointer date.
It’s interesting what people are bothered by. I can’t stand the truncated 6, but I am totally fine with the dials interfering.
I don’t know about “all time,” but yeah, it’s up there among some pretty weak design decisions in my opinion.
No. The worst design element of all time is the multi date aperture.
“You mean today is the 17th? And yesterday is the 16th? And tomorrow is the 18th? No I don’t believe you. Lies. Show me proof!”
Except, it’s wrong 10 times a year. Even if it was a perpetual calendar, it would still show the upcoming date as 31th even if the clockwork skipped that date correctly. Likewise, the receding date will always be the 31st even if the prior month had 30 days.
Cut off numbers are much less distracting that this abomination of horology.
Agreed!
Wow I’m a little hurt…have the watch and love it
I have a Longines heritage classic with the same dial layout. I think cutting out the 6 makes sense, it preserves the dial symmetry and gives an illusion of depth.
Removing this partial number would make the design cleaner and minimalist. This small change would make the watch modern. It is probably not wanted for a heritage and classic line.
Something about Longines putting the 5 star Amazon rating on the dial just rubs me the wrong way. It’s not downright terrible - but I’m just not seeing the relevance or need for it.
Would have rather them ditch the stars and just leave nothing or write COSC Certified
ZULU TIME
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
CHRONOMETER
Oversized date windows that show multiple numbers at once. You’re just taking a useful feature and making it difficult to read.
I’m in the minority that doesn’t mind truncated elements on a dial. What I do mind is functions actually interfering with each other, like that date pointer covering up the moonphase indicator because someone thought they should use the same subdial
JLC MUT moon does the same thing
I’m slightly annoyed with that as well, but I also don’t have any idea what to put in there as if it is empty, it may not look good as well. However, I like that the date dial is more on the middle compared to the 42 mm (which at glance it gives an impression that the movement is too small compared to the case).
That’s because the movement is too small for the case. Like half of modern watches have movements that are too small for their cases, its ridiculous.
LOL. I thought it was because they designed it that way. Anyway, it’s good if somebody make a small second that is just right in the middle at affordable price :) Even Nomos with their relatively new in-house movement is also not right in the middle :(
SOUNDS LIKE BITCH WRIST PROBLEM TO ME. IN FACT IT SMELLS LIKE BICH IN HERRR