Dealbreakers?!?!

[NachoNeal]

I'm anti date. Still seems like a totally unnecessary complication.

[Pw92676]

I don’t have any dealbreakers. But I tend to avoid excessive red or green on dials.

[omar10213245]

Dealbreaker for me: ugly watches. So, basically, anything made by Ulysse Nardin

[BraveBold]

Over 30mm and under 50mm for a round dial.

[csaltphoto]

Originally Posted by median_red

Prominent solid endlinks like the Sub, hate the feel.

I'm with you on this. Just don't like the look. Prefer articulated end links.

[FloydRedford]

Originally Posted by Shadow Play

Has to have a micro adjustment in the bracelet or else easy removable links (Santos style).

Agreed. I should have put that on my original list. I’ve owned a few non-micro bracelets (Grand Seiko) and had to sell them because of wrist swell or just being in between link sizes so never getting a proper fit.


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[shaunylw]

Micro adjust is a deal breaker for me. I install a ez link on vintage/neo vintage Rolex because it’s needed. The last watch i bought without one was a bb58, it didn’t last long.


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[OG1982]

Two tone and Roman numerals would be 2 that would instantly put me off a watch.

Got to be either steel or full gold, and romans ruin any symmetry on the dial and that important to me. Hence my two current Rolex are a Submariner ND and green OP.


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[mpkRolex]

Mine are 41mm or less dial 12.5mm or less thick and a ticking seconds hand at the center are a must. Daytona is the only exception


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[S.Explorer]

My showstoppers are:

More than 40mm case size
More than 48mm lug to lug
More than 12mm thick case
Anything overpriced
Any hard to read dials
Bi-metal watches

[PenDelicate]

Originally Posted by FloydRedford

2. No PCL’s or full polish bracelet

I do like PCLs on YG ...

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[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Harry-57

Wearing comfort. Other than that, if I like it and can afford it, it's in.

Pretty much the same for me.

An adjustable clasp probably exemplifies the comfort issue (for me) so that would maybe be a starting point

[1William]

The ability to get a good fit on a bracelet/strap and the legibility of the dial.

[KatGirl]

I won’t buy a Rolex without knowing for sure that I am the sole owner!
Other than that, I buy what I like, or think I like. I will sell it on, if I’m wrong.

Kat


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[Chiboy]

Dealbreaker for me: anything under 280 grams



I'd say 4:30 date window; pink or purple; regulator

[ERH]

Reading these comments I wonder what possessed me to buy this beauty, other than love at first sight, impulse, shopping in Singapore, like nothing else in my collection, eclectic,

[Guppydriver]

I can’t do a date sub dial. I’ve tried before, but they are ridiculously small numbers that I can’t see.

There are a number of watches that I love but ultimately would pass on because of this. Patek Pilot Travel Time and VC Overseas dual time being two of them.

I was going to add a 4:30 date window to my list, but I would buy a Fifty Fathoms if the price was right, so I guess technically not a dealbreaker.

[Jackie Daytona]

Outside of genera aesthetic features. I’m there on the 4:30 date window. I have an unreasonable hatred of them.

I really like the Seiko SPB381 overall but will never buy one just for that. I can live with the crown at 4, but the date window I just can’t do.

[Driver8]

Dealbreakers for me (pretty much in order) -

- A lack of micro-adjustment on clasps.
- 4:30 date position.
- Anything other than sapphire crystal.
- Anything other than screw-link bracelets.
- Aluminium bezel inserts (nowadays at least).
- Non-tapering bracelets.
- Dials and handsets with no lume.

[Andad]

Snowflakes.

[BMWMotoRider]

Roman numerals. Sticks only.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Driver8

Dealbreakers for me (pretty much in order) -

- A lack of micro-adjustment on clasps.
- 4:30 date position.
- Anything other than sapphire crystal.
- Anything other than screw-link bracelets.
- Aluminium bezel inserts (nowadays at least).
- Non-tapering bracelets.
- Dials and handsets with no lume.

Yeah, the sapphire crystal requirement is a big one. One of my friends just told me that the Cartier Tank doesn’t have sapphire crystal glass.

I didn’t look it up, but that’s another strike against the Tank if it’s true. I’d imagine it might be the cheaper quartz models that don’t have a sapphire glass crystal. The more expensive models probably do. But again, I didn’t look it up.


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[douglasf13]

For the last few years, I’ve really only been interested in Rolex/Tudor watches that are in the 36mm case and around 100g or lighter. I also need the old tuna can clasp, and it drives me nuts if I don’t have a date complication.

[emtee]

Numerals on the dial that have been cut off by things such as chrono counters

[maveric]

No yellow gold whatsoever.

[Calatrava r]

Colored dials other than white, black or silver. Watches which are not legible by hands blending into the dial in low or off light and dials and numerals covered up or partially covered up.

[AK797]

Originally Posted by brandrea

Pretty much the same for me.

An adjustable clasp probably exemplifies the comfort issue (for me) so that would maybe be a starting point

I would have said comfort too, but then I bought a ceramic bracelet watch last year and was too scared to adjust it myself for fear of shattering that I left it unworn for three months until I got around to getting it done, so its always changing.

[wobjk]

Lots of things:

Anything ticker than 13mm, 4:30 date windows, too many different fonts on the dial / overly busy dials (Daytona is the only exception), roman numerals, fake rivets on bracelets, unsatisfying rotating bezels, glossy aligator straps, cut-off numerals, non-baguette diamond hour markers, excessive gem-setting, two-tone models, flimsy bracelets, lack of hacking seconds (a few VC models are the exception)

… and probably a bunch of other things I am not thinking of right now.


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[Kingcobb]

Rolex wise
1) It's not a Daytona or a Submariner....pretty much. Oh yeah and none of this colored bezel with a plain black dial stuff.

Everything else---it can't be so thick I think I have a satelite dish on my wrist----OMEGA

[ijoinedforthisthread]

My list has grown over the years of collecting, and it is tailored to my wrist:
* No case over 13.5mm thick
* No lug to lug over 50mm
* No 4:30 date window (eww)
* No two-tone