Watches - another OCD problem
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Recent pickup. Always wanted a vintage Seamaster. It’s so small compared to my other watches. It needs a better watch strap.
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New shell cordovan strap
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More substantial strap from m Jack Foster. Horween English Tan Dublin. The watch doesn’t feel as small now.
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Nice watch @summ3rhays !
My little Tender watch is 36 mm, which I'm guessing is about the same size as the Seamaster, and I adjusted to it after a few days. I think that you'll get used to it pretty quickly.
On the guilty pleasure front, I got to see a Bell & Ross Burning Skull. I know that it's an ETA base movement dressed up in an engraved case, but I liked it.
A bronze version has been released in China and Hong Kong.
However, were I to go that way, I'd get the just announced Laughing Skull, which has an in-house movement, and a moving jaw.
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Sasaki Kojirō in the foreground about to have his skull fatally bashed in by a bokken fashioned out of an oar on the boat ride to the site of the duel by a tardy Miyamoto Musashi. (If I recall the details of this duel, or one legendary telling of it, correctly.)
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This Submariner sold for a million dollars.
It belonged to a painter, as in decorator, rather than a famous artist. It's missing its original strap, and the bezel was pulled off to stop it getting it gummed up with paint!
I don't get it. At all. There are people with far more money than sense.
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I don't get it. At all. There are people with far more money than sense.
Let's figure out how to take advantage of one to relieve them of the other
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One of the local watch shops has a preview of new models launched at Baselworld, mostly from the Swatch group. I got a chance to look at a few pieces, along with a free almond croissant.
This is the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Annual Calendar. It's been a bit controversial, because it's half diver's watch, half dress watch. I like it, but would suggest getting it on the standard strap, as the NATO made it sit a bit too high on the wrist.
The Fifty Fathoms is now available with a big date complication, which I prefer to the standard, small date window.
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The Omega boutique also had a couple of new models on display, chief of which was the Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon Apollo 8. The watch doesn't have a dial, rather a moon map has been etched onto the bridges on both sides of the movement. The yellow doesn't pop as much in reality as it does in the photo, and I liked it a lot.
Omega have updated the Seamaster Professional Diver this year, and it's getting a lot of good press. It's a nice looking piece. Here it is in steel.
And here in steel and gold.
Lastly, I saw an Aqua Terra with a blue waves dial. It's a smaller piece, at 38 mm, and intended as a ladies watch, but I was very taken by it.
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I prefer the laquer dial from the last iteration of the Seamaster, but I might be biased (I have two). I'm also not a fan of the larger hands than the previous generation. They look ham fisted. The date at the six o'clock is a nice change though.
If that Aqua Terra had baton markers and a square date window, I'd be really temped.
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@DougNg if you've already got two Seamasters, you don't need to buy one of the new ones.
I'm not a fan of diving watches, so won't be getting one. But they seem pretty well executed, and they're at an attractive price point.
The Aqua Terra comes with a square (OK, trapezoid) date window. The round one is on some of the smaller models. Time and Tide have a write up.
https://timeandtidewatches.com/editors-pick-another-look-at-the-latest-omega-aqua-terra/
