Found this DSOTM online. Allegedly dropped on its lug. $9k worth of damage, not covered by warranty. Thought it was worth sharing. My deepest sympathies go out to the owner
New mid-case and it'll be good to go! IIRC a case isn't that expensive, at least relative to the cost of the watch. Archer posted the cost a while back but I haven't found the thread because... I had too much turkey.
While dropping a watch is never good obviously, I'd wondered how these would hold up to a shock. Sad to see this.
It's the main reason I think they should be sold on deployant clasps, even if that has to be made from metal.
Oh man that's awful. I feel like I need to go hug my DSOTM right now. Unless we know exactly what happened, I don't think we can say the lack of clasp is to blame - I like that Omega used ceramic everywhere, including the buckle and pin. Max
Oh man Can you elaborate on how this happened? Here's what we got from a Hodinkee review. Short excerpt - The most common criticism of ceramic pertains to its brittleness. While ceramic sits at the high end of hardness on the Mohs scale, it has one downfall: brittleness. Most forms of ceramic are prone to shattering when dropped onto a hard surface. Though this is fair, quite honestly, it’s unlikely that the Dark Side of the Moon would be subjected to such stress on a frequent enough basis for this downfall to have a huge impact on my opinion of this timepiece. Credit to the guys. See here - http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/a-week-on-the-wrist-the-omega-speedmaster-dark-side-of-the-moon
I wasn't blaming the clasp, but instead I've always felt the the most likely time to have one fall is when trying to fasten a tang buckle. If it had a deployant clasp, that fear is eliminated.