Meistersinger Watches

Bullseye1

http://meistersinger.net/Product_Line.html

The Prodigal Guide discuss it here. Very nice and unusual watches.
http://www.theprodigalguide.com/category/watches/

Zagato

They are beautiful, and I like the idea, you know when I win the Lotto.... or probably the Euromillions, I won't care exactly what time it is, so why would I need a minute hand, and I'm really starting to wonder why I need a second hand now

EDIT: Oh yeah I'm a doctor, probably do need a second hand!

marcus1971

They are really stylish looking, deffo one to research, really uncluttered - fresh and crisp looking.

Zagato wrote: »

They are beautiful, and I like the idea, you know when I win the Lotto.... or probably the Euromillions, I won't care exactly what time it is, so why would I need a minute hand, and I'm really starting to wonder why I need a second hand now

EDIT: Oh yeah I'm a doctor, probably do need a second hand!

Just wear a regular watch on one arm and one of these on the other, tell everybody its a Sphygmomanometer, thats a bit what it looks like.

Wibbs

Zagato wrote: »

They are beautiful, and I like the idea, you know when I win the Lotto.... or probably the Euromillions, I won't care exactly what time it is, so why would I need a minute hand, and I'm really starting to wonder why I need a second hand now

I get real twitchy when ordinary watches have a date. That's a complication too far for me. The only one I have that does, died a death on my wrist after a few months of infrequent wear. That's fate I say

EDIT: Oh yeah I'm a doctor, probably do need a second hand!

Bloody weirdo. I suppose with all the life saving and such you deserve some slack. But only some mind. They even catered for weirdos like you back in the day;

That big subsecond and early chronographs with heart rate increments on the dial were very popular for folks like yourself. Indeed the very early centre seconds hand watches were aimed at docs and pilots.

Blackpitts

I had one of them, the N.1 - white dial, manual movement, but with the open case which is available only one the n.3 now (the one with the automatic movement)
It was a dressy watch, with a nice finish, definitely an interesting one. It made me realize why the minute hand is not that important at the end of the day.
You can get a second hand one for 500-600 euro these days.

I've flipped it to buy another watch, but if i buy another one i'd go for one with a function like the Perigraph (showing the date),



or the Singulator ( I LOVE the regulatour watches!) although it is listed for about 4k! :eek:


Their 3 hands watches are just average tho, I'd rather go for a Junghans Max Bill in that case...

peasant

For the cheapskates among us ...or those who would like to "test drive" this whole one hand thingy before comitting to an expensive Meistersinger, there is (as always ) a (Belo-) Russian alternative:



offered by different sellers on the bay for around fifty quid

http://cgi.ebay.de/Unique-Authentic-Russian-Watch-LUCH-with-ONE-Hand-NEW-/180667587495?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item2a10a09ba7

Bullseye1

That looks very nice. Thanks for sharing P.

Blackpitts

peasant wrote: »

For the cheapskates among us ...or those who would like to "test drive" this whole one hand thingy before comitting to an expensive Meistersinger, there is (as always ) a (Belo-) Russian alternative:

and for those not obsessed with Russian watches :D, there are Kemmner watches...
This german guy Roland Kemmner (erkahund on eBay) was the engineer at Fricker responsible for various Precista watches, including the fabled PRS-2 Dreadnought. He also sells watch parts and self-branded watches directly, though these appear to be better known in his native Germany (in such venues as uhr-forum.de) than in the United States.
This single hand watch has the same Unitas movement and it is priced around 250 euro

Bullseye1

And the wife is going to Germany in October

Homer

Damn.. I'm on a bit of a hiatus at the moment with herself due to the amount of watches that have arrived in the last 8 weeks so will have to come back to these at a later date..

Zagato

Well it's best to start as you mean to continue. I'm forever reminding my wife that she knew about all my vices/problems/addictions before she married me, and making issue of them now is futile

Homer

Zagato wrote: »

Well it's best to start as you mean to continue. I'm forever reminding my wife that she knew about all my vices/problems/addictions before she married me, and making issue of them now is futile

I would but she is in the process of buying me that Rolex submariner ND as an engagement present so better keep quiet for a while Once I have that the buying will commence

peasant

Homer wrote: »

so better keep quiet for a while

Just buy the Luch and tell her it's for her ...because it really is a ladie's watch at heart

Nolimits

The quality wouldn't be the same as the above, but if anyone wants to try a reasonably priced one handed watch then Roy at RLT sells some about 4/5ths of the way down this page http://www.rltwatches.co.uk/acatalog/RLTwatches.html