A battery hatch on the back. I'm serious.
By Dave Kowalski, Chicago ยท
Flip it over. Timex reissued their late-70s Q quartz and kept the best weird detail: a little battery hatch on the caseback, so you can swap the battery yourself with a coin. No jeweler. No eight bucks for somebody to pop the back off. That's a design from a time when things were made to be fixed, and I love it.
38 mm, 12.5 mm thick, 18 mm lugs, blue dial, rotating bezel, day-date, woven steel bracelet. Acrylic crystal.
The bracelet is the weak spot. It's a thin, old-style woven thing that pulls arm hair and feels cheap. And the acrylic will scratch the first week, so keep a tube of Polywatch handy. 50 m water resistance is fine for a summer weekend. At $180 to $200 it's fun, it's honest, and it gets compliments all out of proportion to what you paid.