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midlifegoals
·I’ll call it whatever Omega asks if they’ll hurry up and give me a watch for the full deposit I placed!
Are we sticking with “Daniel Craig”?
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pdxleaf
·Daniel Craig? Oh! You mean the "Polar Craig"!
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ErichPryde
··Seamasters ForeverThe Ed White also makes sense based on historical connection and the whole space theme.
I'm totally fine with the Ed White nickname but doesn't it actually make a lot more sense to refer to the current 321 as the Cernan? As I understand it the modern 321 has a lot more in common with Cernan's watch, the final one to visit the moon, then any of White's speedies.
Ultimately I get it... if anything this illustrates how nicknames don't always have to make sense, they just have to stick
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Canuck
·Wait until Omega does a “Paul Newman”! That’ll set the fox amongst the chickens!
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hen
·My issue isnt with nicknames in general, but just bad nicknames that dont make sense. Rolex nicknames actually make sense for the most part. The Ed White also makes sense based on historical connection and the whole space theme.
If we ended up calling one of the Bond SMPs the "Daniel Craig" cause it was his favorite one or something, I'd be more ok with that.
Please keep the Seamasters out of this, they did nothing wrong.
Daniel Craig is quite fitting; highly anticipated, but turned out to be just the old with a new face. We will soon forget about Daniel Craig the Watch and the actor. Good riddance!
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ErichPryde
··Seamasters ForeverPlease keep the Seamasters out of this, they did nothing wrong.
Daniel Craig is quite fitting; highly anticipated, but turned out to be just the old with a new face. We will soon forget about Daniel Craig the Watch and the actor. Good riddance!
Idk.... knives out fairly well outlined why Craig wasn't just the old with a new face.
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nismo
·My issue isnt with nicknames in general, but just bad nicknames that dont make sense. Rolex nicknames actually make sense for the most part. The Ed White also makes sense based on historical connection and the whole space theme.
If we ended up calling one of the Bond SMPs the "Daniel Craig" cause it was his favorite one or something, I'd be more ok with that.
When I hear "Ed White," I think of the original and not the latest re-issue with the new 321. I simply refer to the new one as the "321" when discussing current production watches. If/when Omega stops making it, I'll probably just call it the "new 321" or something like that, but not the Ed White since it's not an actual watch from the 1960s.
To the OP, I don't know if you are trying to get it called the Daniel Craig by starting this thread as no one else has suggested other than that Fratello thread where everyone else just calls it as the white Speedy. I don't think "white Speedy" is ambiguous enough yet as other white dials have nicknames already like Panda, Alaska, Italian Albino, Snoopy 45th, etc.
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Annapolis
·Decidedly not advocating for calling it that. But the Fratello thread here has well over 200 posts now, and the name is getting traction on social media, WUS, and elsewhere.
Like I said, I don’t have strong feelings—just curious, as it seems like a bizarre choice to call it that, and this forum probably has some formative sway, as the English-language ‘forum of record’ (so to speak) on Omega watches.
Like I said, I don’t have strong feelings—just curious, as it seems like a bizarre choice to call it that, and this forum probably has some formative sway, as the English-language ‘forum of record’ (so to speak) on Omega watches.
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pdxleaf
·'White Speedmaster' for me.
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DougPhx
·Not that I care that much—it’s not a watch I plan to own. But… really?
OF might actually have some influence here. And all due deference to Mr. Craig—my misgivings have nothing at all to do with him. I think I just dislike goofy nicknames. (That’s more of a Rolex thing, no?) And all he did was wear it on one significant occasion. He didn’t design it. Or have any particular connection with it that I know about.
It might not be too late to stop this silliness. But maybe no one else really cares?
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Scarecrow Boat
·Alabaster Speedy Master
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!No.
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ac921ol
·Sorry, but I’m cool with the Redline Speedy.
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskSaw one in flesh today. Tempting. I like Alabaster. The OG from the OKC.
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chiefenergy
·Its over. No one gets to choose their nickname.
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GrussGott
·Speedy White.
Done.
Done.
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Lug
·I agree that ‘Daniel Craig’ is a terrible nickname and would possibly tip the balance against me getting a white dial speedy if it caught on. It’s just horribly cringey (although we should probably be grateful it’s not called the ‘Eddie Redmayne’ or the ‘Zoe Kravitz’)
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jjen
·Whitey McSpeedface
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