Eddie,
That is a considerable improvement. Looking again at the cross-sectional view on p.1, it looks like the 200 metre water resistance derives in part from the use of a nylon crystal gasket in place of the L-shaped rubber gasket + crystal retaining ring but I'm not sure from the drawings whether the crown will be screw-down or not. Can you shed some light?
Thanks
Martin
My not very original thoughts :
or ...
Paul
Last edited by Tokyo Tokei; 26th September 2012 at 11:03.
OCD senses going....Is second 200metres with Helvetica ... or is that Arial...? The originals used a copperplate style font which suited printing of course. The Great Britain is too small for my eyes and this monitor.
Pretty darn smart though, thank you for the rendering.
BTW Eddie PRS-68 is a great designation. I'm in for two.
Is there any chance of getting the Great Britain in red? I think it would be a really nice touch
I still think the "SMITHS" needs to be smaller and of course, the font colour is now shown wrong (I should have cropped the image)
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
i'm intersted in one. Would look good on a Nato
Just Playing !
Agree first is about right- second would be slightly too small on the final dial.
Looking again at the 200metres- does the placement seem right? I think its "correct" but the 6105 water resist text was always slightly unbalanced- I think due to necessity as the hand-ends (not the long bit the other bit) were a bit longer and fatter and the text was longer too.
I agree, I have terrible OCD. The reason why the first one works is because the S at the start of Smiths and the S at the end pretty much line up with the 12hr lume marker. On the smaller font whilst in itself looking nicer it doesn't line up at all nicely with the lume marker and just sort of jars.
This version is the nicest yet, looks like a really fantastic neat design.
I still like a bit of red.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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I think the larger Smiths would have
Been fine but could live with this size, with the balance of design being a home run IMO. Is there Going to be a reserve list or...
Sorry about the link I tried to copy and paste the very last image but it gave me a link instead.
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While we're exploring various permutations, can I throw these two into the mix. I think the first works better than the second but whether it's better than other options discussed above, I'm not sure.
Martin
Matching the red on the dial to the red on the seconds hand was already a plan, the red on the render isn't the actual red on the hand.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
FFOOO is a much better name for a font colour
It seems that the lume will be C3 (?) so the orange matches better with the greenish lume than red
Movement:
I'm hoping for 10yr quartz option. Miyota for the wiggly-spring fanatics.
How about some with a sunburst dial and a bezel in the same colour?
That way it wont look so much like the seiko, which I allready own one. :-)
Cheers!
Not sure if we're voting on this but if we were mine would be for the larger Smiths logo and 200metres in orange. I reckon any more text on the dial would overcrowd things. I'm just hoping it's going to be within my budget...
Duncs last render edit, for me, is perfection.
I better get a paper round and start saving.
Orange would look great ! .
I think if any of the latest mock ups were a reality I'd buy one. But can't help thinking that the injection of colour will need to be seen on a prototype to make the right decision.
In the pics the orange looks great, but I think the red might look better in reality. Where's Harry Hill when you need him?
I'm sure Eddie will make the right choice; and hopefully it will be available in February (birthday time :-))
Big fan of the orange.
Bit concerned though as I thought this was a lot nearer to being released but if the face hasn't been finalised yet then I assume it will be next year.
Small Smiths and Orange works for me too.
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Eddie, looks great!
I would put my vote in for the Orange, it just looks killer.
What a nice chunk of steel.
Regards
Robert
Without having read all seven pages and it being a bit early in the day, would it be better in feet than metres, quietly flicking a V to metric?
"A man of little significance"
A lighter Red for me. I'd change the Metres to Meters, or simply 200M (which would be better imho) though, It is marked up as GB after all and it's a nod to a Japanese watch, adding in another country is just all confusing - although, Japanese influence and movement, British design and German build can't be a bad thing ;)
I'll have one - if there was ever pre-ordering I'd send my cash today, although I appreciate that isn't in Eddie's business model.
It's just a matter of time...
IMO it should be Metres, British spelling for a British watch.
Or simply M.
A metre is a measurement, a meter measures it.
Ok for the orange one !
It's different from 6105's original dial but......... orange is great ! And full of vitamin C.