Watch Case Closed Movie 7
Casandro Diveley
A display caseback should not be an afterthought on a watch. A brand should not be slapping see-through glass on the back and just assuming it's for the best. And there's a reason for this: not all movements are created equal, especially when we're talking about finishing.
When we agreed to go toe-to-toe on this point, I was expecting Mr. Forster, the Grand Master of Horology at HODINKEE, to bring out some truly entry-level watches bringing the goods in terms of visible movement exhibition.
Now I won't throw any single brand under the bus, but in my experience as a former budding-watch-enthusiast-turned-watch-writer/expert (your words, not mine), I've come to deplore what I consider the "entry-level afterthought." These are watches somewhere in the $300 - $2,000 range with modified ETA or Sellita movements. But in actuality, they perform little or any modification to said movements, and then put them behind sapphire or mineral glass. The Tissot PRX Chrono is one watch in recent memory where the inclusion of an exhibition case back was done with considered forethought. It is here where Mr. Forster and I find common ground.
The issue with the afterthoughts is generally two-fold. First, what you're left with is a bunch of metal covered by a large rotor that hardly affords you the chance to examine anything meaningful about the watch. Second, the movements are usually far smaller than the case itself, resulting in a viewing experience ruined by weird proportions. In some cases, the movements are framed by unsightly white plastic. If the idea is to keep costs down, you don't need to show anything off just because you think you have to.
To me, a closed caseback imbues a sense of confidence on the part of the brand. Rolex doesn't have a single watch with an exhibition caseback in its stable (even though they do some decoration and high-level finishing, regardless). Maybe I just like the classic simple appeal of a solid back on my everyday watches.
I dare say that the modern Omega Speedmaster 321 is in that same category. As someone forever determined to own a Moonwatch, but only in the faithful Hesalite, closed caseback configuration, this watch changed my mind. That solely had to do with the 321 caliber. I had heard stories about it before in a historical context, but seeing it recreated in modern form was a whole other thing.
These two watches share a couple things in common, aside from being in-house manufacture movements with a high degree of finishing. Both are manually-wound meaning no rotor to interfere with the mechanics, and both fill the case perfectly. I think also about Montblanc and its use of Minerva-based movements in its high-end offerings. There is so much happening on the back side of those watches that you just want to show them to anyone you can.
That's not to say that automatic movements don't deserve to be exhibited. Even more industrial movements like Omega Co-Axial calibers in the Seamaster Diver 300M range are worthy of showcasing because you get a chance to talk about George Daniels and the development of the co-axial escapement.
In his counterpoint, Mr. Forster inserts photographs of the Tudor Black Bay GMT One for Only Watch with its caliber MT5652-1U, and tries to pass this off as entry-level. A Tudor piece-unique is entry-level??
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However it is gratifying that the number of deaths and physical abuse has subsided for now. But by leaving these men to mentally deteriorate for indeterminate periods of time still sounds cruel and unusual to me.
The corresponding manga chapters are listed in parentheses next to the episode numbers if you are interested. The first set is the overall chapter numbers and the second is the chapters as contained within each volume, separated by a bar (). If a manga chapter reference is followed by an asterisk (*), then there has been some story-critical change between the manga and the anime adaptation.
Since Detective Conan has had some direct crossovers with the Magic Kaito manga over the years, yet those parts of the Detective Conan anime never had the Magic Kaito parts that gave them context animated as well, those crossovers have never really had their full and proper effect for anime-only fans. However, now that Magic Kaito has finally received an adequate anime adaptation, I have taken the liberty of working the timings of these all-important crossovers into where they fit in with their Detective Conan episode counterparts, making the crossovers whole once more. The Internet can thank me later. The only issue is that the Magic Kaito episodes are entirely out of order. But, the order really does not matter for that series as it does with Conan, as the series is entirely episodic beyond pretty much the first episode. So, you can ignore that and watch that series in any order you wish.
An episode being on this list does not necessarily mean that I am insisting that you watch it. It is calling the case out as one that someone might not want to miss for some reason or reasons, with those listed. If the reason given does not look like it matters to you, feel free to ignore that episode.
The *Main Plot* label is only there to point out episodes that you definitely should not skip, since listing the spoiler-lite reasons alone may not be enough. Watching only those episodes is missing out on most of the character development, which is what mainly causes you to care about what happens in those episodes in the first place. While I am not necessarily recommending that you watch every case listed, I am suggesting that you find a balance somewhere in the middle that works for you.
13 [INTL 14] (manga 13-16V2F4-7*): Introduces Miyano Akemi. *Main Plot*Note her importance was far more immediately obvious in the manga (although not the full breadth of it by any means). But the anime creators were idiots, in a way they really seemed to enjoy being at this point in the anime, and changed the ending of this episode completely. Therefore, they had to make a special original followup episode later on when they got to adapting the part of the manga where the implications of the true ending started to become extremely important. Fortunately, I think they learned from this incident and stopped doing things quite so dumb from that point on.
Magic Kaito 1412 ep. 16: Crossover with Detective Conan 356. They both spoil each other heavily, so maybe watch whichever is more important to you first. But, if you only want to watch one over the other, pick Detective Conan.
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