The waterproofing is only 50m, but this style of watch isn’t exactly designed for swimming or diving. It’s incredibly wrist-friendly too, with a total thickness of 10.2mm despite an automatic movement and a double-domed sapphire crystal, and a lug-to-lug of only 45mm.
The fine brushing on the front and sides helps ground the watch while the polished chamfers, lugs and slim bezel add just enough hints of glamour to remain dressy. While the stainless steel itself definitely isn’t soft, the edges of the 40mm cushion case are nicely bevelled and all four corners come to pleasing points.
It’s unclear if this was the reasoning behind the Manime La F’s case, but the label of “cushion case” does imply a friendly and comforting shape with plenty of softness. But after realising that the general population could benefit from physical manifestations of happy memories and connections, he decided to make it available to the world. These watches originally began as a limited run specifically for brand owner Édourd Paris’ friends – the ultimate friendship bracelet you might say. This week’s featured microbrand aims to put smiles on your dials with the Manime La F, an elegant watch based around the theme of friendship. In practice, most watch fans use their watches as extensions of their own tastes instead of life-or-death tools, so there is definitely room for a little more joy in the watch world.
Military watches have quite a dark theme, and you could make the argument that dive watches are also the embodiment of surviving harsh conditions. The most popular watches at the moment are often surrounded by a contextual suffering. I/trending 6839 MICRO MONDAYS: The Manime La F is a watch dedicated to the theme of friendship Fergus Nash
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