![]() ![]() The hands are just as sleek and simple, one long, one short and one skinny. The principle is mirrored in the Seiko equally, with slight deviations from the designs at the quarters to aid orientation in the dark, with the day and date display dominating at three. Sounds fancy, but whilst the painted markers serve nighttime reading by glowing in the dark, those polished surrounds actually help readability in the day by catching the light as well. Rolex was founded as a watchmaker to the professionals, people working in trades that didn’t care if their watch could sing a song or play a tune.īy Rolex standards, getting all fancy and dressed up means to no longer print its markers straight onto the dial like a barbarian and contain them within polished vessels instead. There’s a dial demarcated with hands and markers to read the time from, a case to stop it getting wet and a bracelet to stop it falling off. ![]() The Seiko SNXS79 follows much the same principles. When a design is as refined as a Rolex, anything else feels like needless excess, and so when you’re looking at a budget alternative, the same criteria apply. A Rolex is to luxury watches what a chimpanzee is to primates-the best, the original, the classic. That classic Rolex look really does boil down to just a few things: it’s clean, it’s simple and it’s well-proportioned.
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