Mr Jones. A review of A perfectly useless afternoon
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Really great. But I’ll try to break it down into parts:
The dial:
The depth of the dial, the shadows cast and all the layers creating the effect of an actual pool on your wrist. Deluxe. The use of beige instead of harsh white for the edge of that little pool makes it so soft and the pastels and muted colours makes it so delightfully different from all the divers, fligers, sports, tool watches and other masculine watch definitions.
The movement:
The only thing wrong with this watch is that it actually tells the time – I would have fitted it with a slowed down movement so it never told the right time. This could have been the perfect anti time teller.
Diameter:
Big enough for a rubber duck and small enough to float around in circles.
Lug-to-lug:
The weird extended lugs frames and highlights the dial by separating it from the strap – like a negative space passpartout.
The caseback:
It got that strange font used in Japanese RPGs. Love it. The font.
The crown:
It got two. One real and one fake. Two is more than one.
The crystal:
It has one. I wish it didn’t so I could dip my toes into this watch, but that would probably be impractical.
The strap:
-You should always buy the watch on the bracelet, they say.
And I tend to, but I’m a sucker for dead cows, so the bracelets more or less always end up in the box.
-You should always keep the box, they say. And I do keep the boxes – they come in handy for storing bracelets … it’s like they tell me:
-You will always sell the watch at some point.
I won’t. Never.
Mr Jones. A review of A perfectly useless afternoon
Yes
No
- Different
- The duck
- The size
- It tells the time
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Nice review, I especially liked that you thought the watch should run super slow to keep with the theme lol.
I also recently picked up a MJW. Regarding those wild lugs, I picked up a marine nationale style single pass-thru strap and it pairs *perfectly* with these watches. With the stock 2-piece strap I had arm hair awkwardly poking out of the gaps. With the MN strap, no more stray arm hair! And dare I say, the strap/lug combo actually looks….good? I’m betting a perlon would look good too. Death to NATOs though
A really amusing write up - quirky like the watch. I particularly liked your point on the extended lugs as a type of negative space to frame the dial, which makes a lot of sense.
The only thing I’m unclear with is the quality as you didn’t mention any reasons to explain why. I have the Perfectly useless morning watch and although different, to my eyes the materials used and finish are spot on.
I was looking at this image quickly (and I've seen this watch a million times I think)...and it made me think it would be so cool if instead of a person in the inner tube it was a skeleton. That would definitely get me to buy it 😉
A really amusing write up - quirky like the watch. I particularly liked your point on the extended lugs as a type of negative space to frame the dial, which makes a lot of sense.
The only thing I’m unclear with is the quality as you didn’t mention any reasons to explain why. I have the Perfectly useless morning watch and although different, to my eyes the materials used and finish are spot on.
I’d say the quality is unclear – it’s not fragile, but it looks fragile and I guess there is some plastics involved in creating that dial … we’ll see over time …
I was looking at this image quickly (and I've seen this watch a million times I think)...and it made me think it would be so cool if instead of a person in the inner tube it was a skeleton. That would definitely get me to buy it 😉
What a plot twist! Great idea!