Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@TheGibson oceania has always been at war with eastasia

@mplouffe@scholar.social as much as I like the black bay there are only so many of those you can be interested in

the explorer i is pretty nice, and I do like the oyster perpetual

only problem with those is that Sinn exists and the 556 scratches those itches nicely at a 6th of the cost

might not have an in-house movement or quite as much finishing but they're still damn nice

@maloki@rage.love we used to call it eggy bread

creative lot aren't we?

@mplouffe@scholar.social I like the 16570 (the explorer ii before they made it 42mm) and the 16710 (gmt master ii pre-ceramic) but over their whole collection they've either changed nothing or made it less appealing to me since then

also they're way too much money, but that's beside the point

I'm expecting a blue bezel and dial submariner with either no date, or a new movement

it could conceivably be both but that's more innovation than I've come to expect from modern rolex

Rolex have announced that they're announcing something on the 1st of september

place your bets now on how minor a change it is to one of their existing models and how long the waitlist's going to be by lunchtime

Well this is delightful

The S.U.F. Helsinki Sarpaneva x Moomin

It's got a multi-layered dial with moomintroll on there! And the background is painted with multi-coloured superluminova so it glows wonderfully in the dark!

Unfortunately it's expensive (€5,000) and also entirely sold out but it is lovely

@wigglytuffitout haven't they dropped the morse requirement again?

@mavica instructions unclear, accidentally opened ed

oh god how do I get out of ed?

@mavica cuddling with INTENT

@mavica @RowanBerry power switch? surely it's a power sub!

I have no idea what a power sub would be

@syrup sorry, I shall stop being silly now

@syrup haven't even got to the rampant rabbit jokes yet!

@envgen GIANT LEPUS!

(it's a big hare)

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology it does get surprisingly complicated

the theory is very well understood but taking that and applying it with other considerations like "keep it under Xmm thick" or "also we want a complication here" is a damn tricky job

a lot of brands take an off the shelf movement and just case it to keep costs down but at this level everything that can be developed in house is developed in house

@syrup the phrase "haha vibrator go brrrr" just popped into my head

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology this one's a new limited edition of one of their production models so the cost for them is probably amortised quite a bit

not to mention that they already have their archives of how to make something like this

but doing it from scratch? that'd be damn expensive

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology that's an incredibly hard question to answer

obviously they're... rather tight lipped about all that sort of thing

I know that for design you're looking at multiple millions of dollars for developing the movement (an often touted figure is at least a million for a simple time-only movement from scratch, this is vastly more complicated)

Actually making the thing you'll be paying high rates to people capable of doing that level of hand finishing and it'll be a lot of hours

@bonzoesc I'm gonna say vastly less

I mean, they're gonna be regulating the hell out of that movement but the F-91W is less than one second a day