Watch Snob (askmen.com) - Titan or Tool?

[Mark lowman]

He or they (if it is a group)seem unable to ever write anything encouraging about any brand outside of Patek. I read an article where he just slated off Glycine without any reason why apart from they were not really well known. Omega he might just mention a Speedmaster (yawn).
A real waste of an opportunity to review lesser advertises brands, compare real value in models and of course cover the main players. I would actually rely on Archie more than that waste of writing.

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He or they (if it is a group)seem unable to ever write anything encouraging about any brand outside of Patek. I read an article where he just slated off Glycine without any reason why apart from they were not really well known. Omega he might just mention a Speedmaster (yawn).
A real waste of an opportunity to review lesser advertised brands, compare real value in models and of course cover the main players. I would actually rely on Archie more than that waste of writing.

[andrew]

He or they (if it is a group)seem unable to ever write anything encouraging about any brand outside of Patek. I read an article where he just slated off Glycine without any reason why apart from they were not really well known. Omega he might just mention a Speedmaster (yawn).
A real waste of an opportunity to review lesser advertises brands, compare real value in models and of course cover the main players. I would actually rely on Archie more than that waste of writing.

That's one of his balls-ups. He claimed that Glycine was no longer interesting now it made Airmen with ordinary ETA movements. Well, in the 1950s the Airman came with Felsa movements and then A.Schild, which are no more in-house to Glycine than ETA is today. Hey, if you're going to get all specific, people are going to get all specific as well!

[delays]

It's entertaining but like all of these things, it passes off opinion as fact.

That's precisely why people read it, and it's provocative (and we all love conversations about watches).

[rogerf]

It's entertainment! Opinions from an inaccessible make-believe world sprinkled with some interesting knowledge. People take it seriously?

[Siac]

He (they?) makes some interesting points at times, other times he contradicts himself. Yes, it's good for a chuckle, some will believe it and take it seriously, of course... same way people would read and digest the Daily Star versus The Times etc.

I do like it when he unmasks the marketing efforts that would claim false heritage, Perrelet was recently lambasted, as is Panerai often.

[James Sadilek]

That's one of his balls-ups. He claimed that Glycine was no longer interesting now it made Airmen with ordinary ETA movements. Well, in the 1950s the Airman came with Felsa movements and then A. Schild, which are no more in-house to Glycine than ETA is today. Hey, if you're going to get all specific, people are going to get all specific as well!

Regarding Glycine, granted, the modern Glycine watches, as with 95% of the present day Swiss output, are cookie cutter watches with ETA movements and Chinese made cases and bracelets.

However, if one goes back to the sixties and seventies, even the late fifties, there were the original Glycine Airman and SST watches. Yes, they used the pedestrian Felsa and A. Schild movements, but along with the 24 hour dial, they had the unique hack mechanism that no other manufacturer has duplicated. The hack device was not part of the movement, it was contained in the movement ring that secured the movement to the case. There was the lever that fit into a notch in the stem on one end and on the other end a tiny (.06 mm) wire that came up through a hole in the dial when activated by pulling the stem into the winding position, which stopped the second hand exactly at zero.

The fact that these watches are now selling at anywhere from ten to thirty times, and even more, their original cost, is proof that the world recognizes them as special watches. Does anyone imagine that a modern Glycine will ever sell for ten times its current cost? Well perhaps if we suffer runaway inflation, but the point is, they have nothing that makes them stand out from the crowd.

James Sadilek - ccwatchmaker