Unlike other homages though, Timex has done a good job of keeping the Marlin traditional. The Marlin is an homage to Timex watches from half a century ago. Timex may not have been on many radars for a list of mechanical watches, but the brand has some surprises in its catalog. But sometimes that can also work out to everyone’s benefit. When simplicity is key in a watch, there’s not much a manufacturer can do to ruin the formula, except maybe add too much. But whatever your budget, if you’re interested, there’s an elegant manual-wind watch for you. We’ll see plenty of exceptions in the watches that follow. Plus, the traditional nature and simple design of a time-only, manually wound wristwatch typically results in pieces that fit the bill for a respectable and understated dress watch, though there are certainly exceptions. Unlike watches with complications, setting time-only manual-wind watches is a breeze, making them perfect members of a growing collection.
It’s a simple machine that simply tells the time. Time-only, hand-wound watches are the essence of a wristwatch.
They fill a niche and hark back to simpler times when watches were expected to do less yet do it well. That’s where manually wound watches enter. The manual-wind watch - an exercise in ritual It would be nice to feel needed in return. Plus, with some manufacturers’ insane power reserves of five days or longer, some automatics are approaching quartz watches in their ability to coolly tick away with minimal user input. But automatics (and accurate ones at that) do a fairly good job of maintaining the time once wound, set, and on the wrist.
After wearing any given watch for a while, I enjoy switching back to an automatic, performing that initial winding and setting. I just acquired a new G-Shock, and though it’s a solar quartz and thus requires very little from me, I’m enjoying having buttons, alarms, and world-time functions to fiddle with. In my quest for ever-more accurate watches with longer and longer power reserves, I find myself missing the user input aspect. Plus, there’s generally a symmetry and classiness that no other watch style quite delivers. A hand-wound watch is happy enough to be wound and worn when needed and just as happy to wait in the wings until the next winding.
There are no off-limits windows of time for adjusting it because there’s no date or other complication to set. In a multi-watch collection, there’s less stress in winding and setting a manual caliber than what is required with an automatic with a date complication or worse. There’s a comforting element to a watch that tells the time simply yet is dependent on manual input to run. I’m of the opinion that every watch collection should include a time-only, manual-wind watch.
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