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ppn, 11 hours ago

@violinguy it kind of looks a lot like a Cartier Drive

ppn, 2 days ago

@carnage4life it’s not a realization, it’s the plan all along. Microsoft spent money to kill competition and acquire their IPs. They couldn’t care less about the people working at the studios.

ppn, 3 days ago

@carnage4life @frew Microsoft literally said 8 months ago that they were happy with Hi-Fi Rush’s success and planned to invest in the company. It’s not a matter of profit. Their brain-dead corporate speech about IP consolidation is all about not making ENOUGH profit under the silly and unrealistic assumption that everything must be Call of Duty-level of profit.

ppn, 2 days ago

@frew @carnage4life “it’s also been a tough 8 months” and whose fault is that? Who are the ones in charge and supposedly responsible for it? Why are they not impacted at all? Did you go to the same school of tone-deaf public statements as Mike Ybarra? https://mastodon.online/@ppn/112406490095250937

ppn, 6 days ago

Reference is SBGP005. I was looking for a good everyday watch. I had 3 criteria:

• can work both in casual and formal if needed, 44GS case and incredible finish are classy but sunburst dial with no extra pattern is relatively simple for a #GrandSeiko
• blue dial, blue was the one glaringly missing color in my collection so far
• convenience, date is a must and 9F85 quartz rated at +-10s/year means that I don’t have to babysit it, battery swap after 3 years is trivial
  #watches #watchesofmastodon

The watch on its cushion inside the box
Closer shot of the watch on its cushion inside the box

ppn, 6 days ago

The #GrandSeiko SBGP005 has basically taken the place of both my SBGA259 which I find a bit too fancy for everyday and my #Citizen E650 S086728 which I don’t wear often anymore because it’s too heavy, too big (42.5mm) and a bit too complicated. The SBGP005 is 40.5mm, has one date complication and is steel instead of titanium so it is definitely heavier than SBGA259 but still nowhere near as heavy as the massive Citizen. #watches #watchesofmastodon

Close shot of the SBGA259
Wrist shot of the Citizen E650 S086728

ppn, 5 days ago

@r_df_ng Grand Seiko is normally a bit over-budget for what I was willing to put for an everyday convenient watch. So I was initially considering something like a smaller quartz Citizen or a Longines VHP. But then I got lucky, was offered a very very good deal for this one and went back to the idea of GS.

ppn, 5 days ago

Comparing the side view of the #GrandSeiko SBGA259 and SBGP005, unsurprisingly the case of the watch with quartz movement is much slimmer than the one with Spring Drive. But due to titanium instead of steel the bigger case is still lighter. #watches #watchesofmastodon

ppn, 7 days ago

@aggualaqisaaq @w7voa it’s very unlikely to ever happen as long as the Likud is in power.

ppn, 9 days ago

@cford @manchicken @carnage4life well we and Google’s executives are going to find out in a few months why one is paid more than the other and why some core stuff shouldn’t be offshored. I hope you are ready for some randomly catastrophic broken updates in your favorite Google products/services.

ppn, 9 days ago

@carnage4life @manchicken @cford I think Chris and you slightly misread what I mean. I come from one of the countries where a lot of tech companies usually off-shore their devs and engineers and saw the shoddy local formation outside of reputable schools. In a world where remote work is still not the norm, most of the talented ones have already tried to emigrate either to study or to work. Executives are going to get “exactly” what they paid for.

ppn, 9 days ago

@manchicken @cford @carnage4life from my first-hand experience I have not seen a single company I work for do the right thing. Executives all went for cheap order-takers from consulting companies that do a horrible job of hiring the right profil and giving them the adequate formation. Also often underestimating language barrier and time zones. After a year or 2 of things going off the rail, they are quick to give up and blame anyone but themselves.

ppn, 10 days ago

@violinguy I actually hesitated to buy this one when I was looking for a field watch because it is cheaper than a Seiko SNK809. But I settled for the latter when I found a deal at about the same price.

ppn, 5 days ago

@Ruttalex07 I have seen it IRL and I still disagree that it is a simple dial. It's very busy with a clumsy amount of "5" markers. When you put it side by side with an Explorer that has just 3/6/9, it honestly looks like a messy version of it. Almost nothing in the modern Air-king makes sense. It is not even related to airplane/pilot anymore since it is designed after a car.

ppn, 5 days ago

@Ruttalex07 In a modern lineup with Oyster perpetual, Datejust, Air-king and Explorer, I would chose any watch except the Air-king. It is literally the only one who has currently zero identity design-wise. I feel like the Air-king has never really managed to find its proper identity. As much as I like vintage Air-king from 50s-70s, it is hard to deny that even then they were very close to late Speedking and Oyster Perpetual. I don't understand what Rolex is trying to achieve at this point.