Yups thats one i mean.
If there is any watch in particular sounded good on paper, looked good, tested, bought then later found out for one reason or another was not right.
Oh Fortis, every other watch from you seems to be a "limited edition" nowadays.
This is the watch that I ordered from just looking at magazines and blog reports. Looks nice from a distance but when I started wearing it, the dial was just too busy and you had to squint and look very hard to figure out the GMT time. It will make a good present to someone that's not as fussy as I am.
The other watch that I bought suffering from the same situation is my Bell and Ross BR-02, that one is in exile due to quality issues. Beautiful watch but let down by bad support and quality problems.
1) It's slow. It loses time like 1 minute every few days (enough that I notice it straight away). Got into an argument with the dealer and sent the thing back and forth servicing which did squat for it's accuracy. I got fed up that it was spending more time being serviced than on my wrist. It ended when I swore that this would be the last B&R I will ever touch.
2) To add insult to injury, the BR-02 Rubber strap cracked and disintegrated while in my collection case. No, I wasn't abusing it or even wearing it every day. It was kept in a dark case in a typical Malaysian house (no air-con). The rubber strap just cracked and broke apart. No way I am going to buy a replacement B&R rubber strap from them and have it just fall apart in the box. It's on the velcro strap now but I hardly wear it nowadays. "Sim Thia" (the heart hurts), as they say when I look at it. I can post a pic of the dead strap as I still kept all the pieces.
Picture for illustration purposes. Mine has numbers on the dial.
