This is the face of the good ol' MkII Cruxible, showing off the super-subtle logo and depth rating. (except the brandings are actually more subtle than seen here – I made the dark bits a little extra bright and legible for the photo, but really the writing is more like... a shiny shadow on the basically black dial. It's cool.) This photo is me finally exercising some lens tilt and swing to get the plane of focus parallel with the face of the watch... ...and then, because that's not enough fussing, I smashed together a very thin stack of frames (just from the tip of the pinion down to the face of the watch) – on the theory that if you're not focus stacking over a huge range, like travelling along the watch's face, maybe the nearest objects won't cast out-of-focus edge halos big enough to notice. And that seems to be true, at least to my satisfaction here. The lens is a Cambo ACTAR-120, which seems to be decent! [jbm-20220831-gfx-stack-065_076-f8]
Behold the recently-arrived Ianos Mihanikos! I cannot tell a lie - I had periodic doubts as I was waiting through the pre-order. But I genuinely like it now that I have the ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΟΣ in my hands! It has a definite sense of its own style. I've mostly been avoiding especially thick watches recently, and this is... not thin. It's kind of a boulder on the wrist. But a GOOD boulder, a stylish boulder. Because also: I really dislike it when watches on a one-piece strap perch on top of the strap and hover in the air above your wrist. In this one there's a channel in the back of the watch, hewn into the very steel of it, which provides a place for the thickish strap to nestle and lie completely flush. (See photos 2 and 3) So the watch is actually a little extra thick just so it won't hover. IMO, it works. ...and just because they Couldn't Stop Designing In Details, there are roller sleeves on the fixed bars so it's super easy to pull the strap in, and the rubber strap has indentations for those bars molded into it. Nice. [jbm-20220901-gfx-stack-028_041-f11-ianos]
You know where I always love visiting? 'Round back behind the JLC Master Control Calendar. It's a lovely neighborhood. [jbm-20220901-sl2-stack-009_011-f11-jlc-back-closer-selected-frames]
