1) Ultra-complex aviation chronograph
Aviation bezel is the most complicated chronograph. Practical application can only be "natural". From the appearance, those dense numbers make people look full of technology. What was invented at that time was to calculate the taxiing time of the plane, so as to determine the landing time. However, since the invention, no pilot has really used it every day, and the plane has landed unconsciously. In daily life, not many cousins can understand its use.
According to this calculation method, I don't think it is necessary to fly the plane well. This formula alone is enough to make people crazy.
2) Navigation timing ring
Rolex Shi Ming Yacht is a high-end watch used in Laos. The design of the ring in the yacht race is unforgettable, but it is also a function of "integrating eggs" in daily life, which may be just decorative. It was originally designed according to the rules of yacht race, and the interval between two ships was timed. This bezel can also rotate like a diving watch ring. I don't think many people can understand it at the touch of a button. Is Hua 15W practical? Why should I buy this watch? Is it for going abroad to participate in sailing competitions?
3) Racing chronograph
Rolex's racing chronograph Daytona is an old classic. Most cousins choose it because of its simple and honest three-eye chronograph, and very few start with it because it is related to racing. Cousins with this function are mostly fresh when they are brought home for the first time. After the research, it will be used as an ornament in the future. The pointer will always return to zero at 12.
4) GMT travel time function between two places
This function is not too bad, at least you can look at the time in your hometown when you go abroad. The face value of GMT watches is still worthy of recognition. The dial is no longer just a three-hand design of hours, minutes and seconds, but also an extra hour hand in the second time zone. For cousins who stay in China all the year round, this function can only load X, which is "natural" in actual use.
Tip summary: Watches are very different from electronic products. "No matter how many functions, a good brand is king." The more functions, the higher the failure rate after five years. It is said that many seniors and cousins would rather spend their budget on high-luxury three stitches than take low-luxury top editions.
First of all, please clarify a concept: mechanical watches, especially high-end watches, are classified as "jewelry". It is meaningless to talk about the practicality of "jewelry". Luxury goods don't need to talk about cost performance. A 500,000 brand-name bag and a 50-cent supermarket shopping bag can't hold it. then what Do you prefer to go shopping with a 50-cent plastic bag?
The thing of "cost performance" is actually the patent of the poor. A car with a price of 80,000 yuan is much more cost-effective than a car with a price of 800,000 yuan. But if you have a house, land and savings, and you still have 8 million yuan in cash to buy a car, you will never buy a "cost-effective car" with 80,000 yuan. If you only have 80,000 yuan, your cost-effective choice should be to spend 80 yuan to buy a second-hand bicycle and gloves and hats.
The most practical thing about watches is to take a look at the approximate time. Others will not be used too often, especially today when mobile phones are popular. If antiques play with history, precious stones play with scarcity, calligraphy and painting play with the perfect combination of master spirit and skill, and strange stones play with the ingenuity of nature, then high-end watches play with the exquisiteness of human beings. For example, Vacheron Constantin's Heavenly Excellence 3600 has 565,438+04 mechanical parts and six clockwork boxes, which can store electricity for up to three weeks. It can be timed in three ways: standard time, solar time and sidereal time, so as to realize a series of functions such as daily moon phase, date, rising and setting time of the sun, and solve the problems such as hairspring tension and metal fatigue.
Moon phase, eggs are useless. Omega's super anti-magnetism, its anti-magnetism level will never be reached by normal people, and it is 600 meters waterproof. It can go down, but I can't. Helium exhaust valve, similar. However, the hippocampus 600 is a good watch, so don't consider it with thin arms.
All functions are not necessary, because the mechanical watch itself is no longer a necessity, but a toy for adults. At best, it's a feeling of mechanical device, at worst, it's just a "metal plush toy" used to hold 13. What do you think is the indispensable function of plush toys?
My word ... is that waterproof 400 or 600? It can go down, but so can I. But it was fine when it came up, so I'm not sure. In fact, the waterproof life is very good, so there is no need to do that.
If it doesn't work, it's no use paying IQ tax. It's no use bringing a watch. In the present environment, where do you need a watch to tell the time? That's equivalent to saying that buying a watch is an IQ tax.
In fact, the mechanical watch itself has no practical value. Nowadays, mechanical watches are all toys, so don't talk about which function is useful and which is useless.
Whether the watch is advanced or not is used to see the time. If you have too many ideas, nothing will be normal. Watches are not compulsory products. When working outside, I want to see what time it is, so it is not convenient to take out my mobile phone. You can tell the time by turning your wrist. You can't use your mobile phone to tell the time during the meeting. Therefore, on the one hand, a watch is for decoration, on the other hand, it is more convenient to see the time than a mobile phone.
Personally, I think the functional requirements of watches will be different according to different occasions. Specifically, according to your purpose, there is almost no chicken rib function ~ for example, if you just wear the most basic clothes, you only need a time function, and you don't need a calendar or anything ~ for me, it doesn't matter whether the watch time is right or not.