Aesthetically: The standard is for it to be at the 3. I find often it ruins symmetry or wipes out a numeral. It can leave an otherwise very clean dial feeling “unbalanced”. Don’t even talk to me about watches with the date at 4.
My “favourite” location is for the date window to be at 6. Good examples of this are the Hamilton Intra-Matic (in both the regular and chronograph, which is a nice feature), a lot of Nomos watches, the majority of older Heuer chronographs, and the Vulcain 50s Presidents. In essence - it’s a very mid-century thing and I’m sad it’s gone away.
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Functionally: great.
Aesthetically: The standard is for it to be at the 3. I find often it ruins symmetry or wipes out a numeral. It can leave an otherwise very clean dial feeling “unbalanced”. Don’t even talk to me about watches with the date at 4.
My “favourite” location is for the date window to be at 6. Good examples of this are the Hamilton Intra-Matic (in both the regular and chronograph, which is a nice feature), a lot of Nomos watches, the majority of older Heuer chronographs, and the Vulcain 50s Presidents. In essence - it’s a very mid-century thing and I’m sad it’s gone away.