Gigantic-huge Diesel watch: "Super Bad Ass"

Mitch at Watchismo writes in with news of the new honkin'-huge Diesel Super Bad Ass watches: "These monstrous timepieces epitomize this series with many functions in one big old timepiece. A chronograph, a second timezone and a compass all piled into this 55.5mm long block of metal!"

$250 isn't insane for a really nice watch, and this is, indeed, a really nice watch. If I hadn't just filled my second watch-box (to the horror of my wife), I'd be seriously tempted.

DZ1318 Bad Ass Gunmetal Compass -Diesel (Thanks, Mitch!)

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Boondocker

I didn’t even know that watch boxes existed until this post. I suppose I should have assumed.
Saskplanner

Wow. I thought I was the only one with THAT serious a watch addiction… I still have my first LED from the Emporium in San Francisco from 1975.
retrojoe

Agree with #13: Most quartz watches under $300 use the same low grade movements coming out of China, or maybe a lower end Swatch group movement (if you’re lucky).

And those black on black chrono hands? A lesson is in how to render something immediately useless right off the line.

Lastly (for now) the custom shaped strap: Yours will break 6 months after they stop making replacements.
bellebouche

What a delight, the perfect bling for those who’ve undergone a tastectomy.
alowishus

Hey Cory, somewhere I have a Casio watch that tracks the movement of the planets. It has a little Solar System model on it. Serious. Nanner-nanner, goo-goo.
thebassguy

HUGE watch, unfortunately, but I can never understand why more watches don’t have functional compasses, which can me more useful than knowing the time!
Tony Moore

i think that’s awesome. i love it.
Xopher

I’d get one, but the diesel exhaust would annoy my office mates.
Anonymous

what?! no emergency whistle or decoder ring?!
(cf MAD #15 Captain Tvideo)
GauchoAmigo

You have to be careful when buying a watch with a built-in compass (if you expect the compass to work), because the watch’s battery can throw the compass off.
strunkl

55.5mm. seriously.

I’m pretty sure the gigantic watch trend is rapidly becoming played out. Even if I’m wrong, 55.5mm is outsize by even the most hipster of standards.

As soon as Diesel returns to making wrist-sized timepieces again, I’ll return to buying them. Until then, I’ll just laugh at them (and you if you buy one).
Vengefultacos

Black hands on a black face. Perfect watch for Hotblack Desiato.
- MrWednesday
  
  ROTFL
- devophill
  
  “Every time I press one of these black buttons labeled in black on a black background a black light lights up black to let me know I’ve done it.”
Anonymous

Jeez -55.5 mm ? Have they run out of imperial units?
Cunning

Badass? Bitch, please. My watch has a DZ1318 inset on the bezel. It’s called the Resonator because it make my arm look like it’s stuck in an MRI machine.
Chupacabara

55mm? Flavor Flav says “Whatchoo want with that tiny thang?”
Ernunnos

Nice watch? It’s a cheap commodity quartz movement with an equally cheap and easily scratched mineral crystal, slapped in a unnecessarily large and graceless case with a gumball machine compass. Completely disposable.
Teller

Jinxed. No – Just look at it.
Robert

55.5 mm? That sounds enormous…ly uncomfortable. And is it Diesel because it’s black on black? Like oil on an oil-soaked sea bird?
- bkad
  
  Robert, Diesel is fashion brand that makes a lot of things (known for their jeans in the US). They also have a couple watch brands (Fossil, Diesel). My subjective opinion is that Diesel watches are some of the most profoundly ugly timepieces I’ve ever seen, but there’s a certain set that’s into that. ;-)
cosmorphis

I don’t see what’s so great about it … and the only thing gigantic-huge, is the photo.
scifijazznik

Speaking as someone with a light to moderate watch fetish, that thing is beyond ugly.
Anonymous

i’d remove the strap and mount it as a wall clock – awesome
Comedian

Yo dawg, I heard you like telling time, so I put a watch in your watch so you can tell time while you’re telling time.

(I probably crossed some internet line with this post, but I did learn of this meme from the oft-linked “Know your internet meme.”)
Anonymous

The compass is a nice touch. Your lost if you’ve got this watch.
Chupacabara

BIG is the new Black.