Their dials are just so… bland. It’s always black and white and minimalist to a fault. Like there’s nothing interesting. Even Nomos has splashes of color here and there and play on typography. For example Nomo’s simplest watch - Tangente, has a slight splash of color with blue hands. Other minimal dress watches usually differentiate with dial finishing - like with sunburst or a textured dial. But nope, Sinn design language is just: stainless steel, pure black, sans-serif numbers, and white indices. That’s it. Yet they are super loved in here. Help me understand?
First most Sinn’s are not supposed to be dress watches - if you look at the collections on their web site, really only the “Frankfurt” and Classical collection would be considered dressy at all - and these are not the watches getting all the love here and in other watch forums - the ones getting all the love are the Instrument Watches and Instrument Chronographs, and to a lesser degree their divers, probably most notably but not limited to the 356, 556 and 856 series. And all these are more along the lines of “tool” watches or even pilot watches.
And personally, I’m not that big a fan of the “instrument” watches. I’ve tried to like them but really they’re sort of dull- not terrible but not very inspiring especially for the price. I don’t think a watch needs a splash of color, necessarily, but I just don’t find them to be that inspiring and the ones that I do sort of like are too large for me. Frankly I, like you, would probably rather buy a Nomos. However Sinn’s dressier watches IMHO are darned nice, they have some really great stuff - those Frankfurt watches really call to me but haven’t quite gotten to where I can justify such a purchase financially.