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[Question] What is the appeal of Sinn? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by No_Personality6685@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Their dials are just so... bland. It's always black and white and minimalist to a fault. Like there's nothing interesting. Even Nomos has splashes of color here and there and play on typography. For example Nomo's simplest watch - Tangente, has a slight splash of color with blue hands. Other minimal dress watches usually differentiate with dial finishing - like with sunburst or a textured dial. But nope, Sinn design language is just: stainless steel, pure black, sans-serif numbers, and white indices. That's it. Yet they are super loved in here. Help me understand?

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[–] MT1982@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

They're tool watches (most of them are, anyway). They're no frills and just designed to do a good job at their job of telling time. This means that they're usually contrasting colors (white hands/black face, etc.) without many other frills. They also use some interesting tech in some of their watches. Personally I love them. The U50 is on my wish list (NOT MY PHOTO! Found it on a review site when trying to find a cool pic of the U50).

To me you either like tool watches or you don't. It's just a personal thing and if you fall into the category of people that don't like them then that's fine.

However, if you're the kinda guy that can go into the hardware store and stare at a pair of well made calipers and think "i have no use for this thing, but damn is it well made and cool looking." then you will probably like tool watches.