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Right, enough gold, lets talk watches. All 445 of them to be precise. We nearly avoided any new record lows (the monthly total was only one more than the current low), bringing the weekly average to 111.25. However we did record the fewest number of brands this year with only ninety nine being worn this month. The measure of diversity subsequently dropped to 0.222bpw.
Friday the sixth was the first Friday of September and it started strongly with both Seiko and Rolex maxing out with twelve apiece. In third cam Sinn on nine with Omega behind with three fewer. On the thirteenth Omega rocketed up to first with twelve and a three way tie ensued between Rolex, Seiko and Panerai with ten each. This was the first time four brands had scored over ten watches in a week since the 15th of March. These forty from one brand pushed us to our highest weekly score (127) since the start of May. Rolex made their way to the top spot on the twentieth with eleven with Panerai next with ten and then Seiko with Nine. Omega were back down in eighth with four. Rolex stayed on top for the last Friday with fourteen, Seiko followed with twelve and Panerai came third with eight. Omega added one to the score of the previous week and bumped themselves one further up the table.
Girard Perregeaux had their best ever week on the sixth with three and, although they didn’t appear in the proceeding three weeks it was enough for them to have their best month of the year. Glashutte Originale had their best month of the year with six, only one short of their best ever showing. Panerai equalled their best month this year with thirty three but possibly the most impressive performance was Longines who recorded their highest score of the Year of thirteen, only three months after only being worn once in a whole month. This was enough to give them their first appearance in the monthly top ten, the nineteenth brand to do so. The notably worst performance of September was Omega who’s flirting with the lower reaches of the top ten ended up giving them their worst ever monthly score of twenty seven, four lower than their previous lowest which was only recorded in July.
The ninety nine brands which were worn this month was the lowest number of brands to appear this year. I think part of this was driven by the slow down of the addition of new brands as only four (Titoni, Offshore Professional, Majex and Maen) returned to the thread and only two new brands were added (Wise and Momentum). This leaves us on 325 for the year so still seventy five short of that 400 but I think that was before my last appeal so that may have had an effect. With only one Friday left of the year I suspect it will be too late to hit that target. But if I do post this shortly and you read this before tomorrow is out perhaps you could dig out that vintage watch from the back of your sock drawer or even that novelty watch you brought because it looked funny but only wore for two days. It isn’t as if you haven’t got anything better to do (unless you actually do have something better to do).
Not many watches caught my eye this month (either a symptom of the low numbers or perhaps a sign of having done this for five years now). But out of those that did, PeteS’s Offshore Professional was the standout. A superbly designed and (by all accounts) put together watch we haven’t seen since December 2021. Crouchy’s Seiko A829-3019 is a lovely example of a family of watches that aren’t seen much around here but I know of two other members which have one or more examples. I couldn’t help but notice twhp101’s Ricoh 643118, not only with the bright orange dial but the unusual lightning bolt text on the dial stood out. I am sure I am not the only one who would be interested in knowing the history behind that if you know it. My final mention isn’t a watch (although there is no doubt his JLC World Time is not without merit) but the collection that it was photographed with. A vast array of GI Joe figurines, obviously another of Evangelos’ passions. A cracking collection.
Right, as October awaits and I have loads of free time over the next few days, I have a counting marathon on my hands to catch up before I start planning the awards ceremony. Here are the stats:
1 Rolex 47
2 Seiko 43
3 Panerai 33
4 Omega 27
5 Tudor 20
6 Sinn 19
7 Grand Seiko 15
8 Timefactors 14
9 Citizen 13
10 Longines 13
11 G Shock 12
12 IWC 11
13 Breitling 10
14 Garmin 7
15 CWC 7
16 Glaschutte Original 6
17 Swatch 4
18 Apple 4
19 Doxa (modern) 4
20 KMK 4
21 Universal Geneve 4
22 Hamilton 4
23 Heuer 4
24 Jaeger LeCoultre 4
25 Squale 4
26 Christopher Ward 3
27 Ming 3
28 Certina 3
29 Damasko 3
30 Oris 3
31 Yema 3
32 Tag Heuer 3
33 Sterile 3
34 Girard Perregeaux 3
35 Bell & Ross 2
36 Bremont 2
37 Aquastar 2
38 Le Monde 2
39 Ricoh 2
40 Rotary 2
41 Zodiac 2
42 Moser 2
43 Nomos 2
44 Patek Philippe 2
45 Steinhart 2
46 Tactical Frog 2
47 Unimatic 2
48 Junghans 2
49 Victorinox 2
50 Scurfa 2
51 Tutima 2
52 Linde Werdelin 2
53 Momentum 2
54 Breguet 1
55 Briston 1
56 Hermes 1
57 Maen 1
58 Majex 1
59 Militado 1
60 MkII 1
61 Muhle 1
62 MWC 1
63 Neuchatel 1
64 Orient 1
65 Pagani Design 1
66 Sugess 1
67 Ball 1
68 Cartier 1
69 Ebel 1
70 Erebus 1
71 Porsche Design 1
72 Precista 1
73 Record 1
74 Ryte Time 1
75 Seestern 1
76 Vacheron Constantin 1
77 Audemars Piguet 1
78 Baltic 1
79 Baume et Mercier 1
80 Blancpain 1
81 Casio 1
82 Fortis 1
83 Glycine 1
84 Halios 1
85 Helvetia 1
86 Le Phare 1
87 NTH 1
88 Rado 1
89 Stowa 1
90 Timex 1
91 Titoni 1
92 Wise 1
93 Autodromo 1
94 Edox 1
95 Hanhart 1
96 Newmark (Modern) 1
97 Nodus 1
98 Offshore Professional 1
99 Proxima 1
100 Unidentifiable 1
