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ama98
·Both looks good and there can be a lot of arguments around them but at the end of the day most of us never gonna own any of them
Baselworld 1948 Seamaster
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scv55
·I'm blown away. My grandfather had an original Seamaster from 1953 that he bought for himself while working on oil tankers for Aristotle Onassis. Unfortunately, in the late 70's, he attempted to clean the watch by soaking it in paint thinners. You can imagine what that did to the poor thing. I have old photos of him wearing the watch on the ships. I have shown him online photographs of early 50's Seamasters and he has verified to me "no date, automatic, 12,3,9,6 numeral, sweeping second, steel case, silver dial" I cannot believe Omega has just now come out with a modern version. Hope they put a hippocampus closed caseback in non limited numbers. Just wow.
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BLAUGRANA
·Prefer the sub seconds version, but too shiny either way.
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DIV
·It's a tough call.
Personally 34mm is just too small for my wrist.
Also, I never cared for the bumper movements.
But I'm sorry, the new caseback design is DREADFUL! I don't need to see the movement, give me a steel caseback and shave a mm off the thickness any day of the week!
I guess the sweet spot for me are the 60's pieces
Personally 34mm is just too small for my wrist.
Also, I never cared for the bumper movements.
But I'm sorry, the new caseback design is DREADFUL! I don't need to see the movement, give me a steel caseback and shave a mm off the thickness any day of the week!
I guess the sweet spot for me are the 60's pieces
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DG GW
·I love them both. At first I was going to pre order the Sub second model. It is just now that I think about it, the model with the center second hand does look nicer. Ahh what to do? My wife will kill me if I get both.
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propervinyl
·This is a matter of personal taste, but I think 38mm will be a tad too large for this design. I think it will look out of balance.
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Togri v. 2.0
··Wow! Custom title... coolThey both look like poor redials of the original thing, but I am happy the size is sensible. Funny how one of the pictures in the link show the center seconds version with a longer seconds hand?
EDIT: That caseback is terrible. Whoever thought of adding a speedboat and an aeroplane?! 🤦🤦
The long center seconds hand added serious cost to the watch so they opted for the shorter, ambutated looking one. Generally the hand length on the center seconds version are way off IMO.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFI actually love these and think they're the pick of the 2018 litter, especially the little details like the clover crown and vintage logos being used... now we just need to convince them to use the vintage Omega logo (which is far nicer looking and stands for that quality they had in the 50s/60s rather than the cheapness of the 70s) for the rest of the model range. I really hope they surprise us in the next couple of years by just rebranding to that vintage style and applying it to the whole range.
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jets
·It's funny that this model came out around now. I was kind of off watches for a while because I was content with what I had. Then recently I started to get back into Omega and bought some that I chose to sell years ago. After that my Dad gave me a 14K gold Omega Geneve and the charm of these older watches are awesome. At 35mm I really like it but I have a big wrist makes it a bit tricky. A little small for what I'm used to and started to check out some of the slightly larger offerings. Man I had a late 60's early 70's 145.007 chronostop that was awesome and I let it go... Now these 1948's with suck a nice design pop up.
I agree that the sapphire case back deviates a bit much but a least it's out of sight most of the time! I really dig the model with Seamaster near 6 o'clock.
I agree that the sapphire case back deviates a bit much but a least it's out of sight most of the time! I really dig the model with Seamaster near 6 o'clock.
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Mtnmansa
·Hi Guys
Yes ,its nice looking...... I am a fan of the early Seamasters.... but the devil is in the details....
I did a quick comment on the article.... when it was posted....
I love the Jumbo 36 mm bumper Seamaster. .. and even the standard 34 mm case bumper Seamaster.....
just scaling the case to 38 mm is a challenge.... if anyone is at Baselworld... see if you can find out the width....
cause the 36 jumbo wears large on the wrist... 38 mm could be huge....
Here is a 36 mm in rose gold, FYI I have a 8 inch wrist .
Good Hunting
Bill Sohne
Here is my 1948 Seamaster 2012 Olympic edition. My wrist is 8in too and it wears great.
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DIV
·I'd like to see a profile shot to see how they did the crystal. If they made it curved to look like the vintage acrylic crystals (like the RM LE) then that would be some major vintage caché
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Riviera Paradise
·https://live.hodinkee.com/e/baselworld-2018?post_id=9d937d1a-9f6a-4f39-b948-465c1a1beae2&type=images
Just posted on Hodinkee...another version of the Seamaster derived from the Edizione Venezia will also be launched soon, apparently. Looks pretty gorgeous with that dark dial.
Just posted on Hodinkee...another version of the Seamaster derived from the Edizione Venezia will also be launched soon, apparently. Looks pretty gorgeous with that dark dial.
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Jerseyhammer
·38mm
Little bit pricey
Would have preferred a SS engraved caseback
Overall nice pieces as I have been known to like a non date watch
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bloomy
·I dig the aesthetics but I think it is over engineered. The article praise the value proposition but lets be real the vintage versions of this watch offer a much better value prop right now.
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BLAUGRANA
·Sold out already?
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77deluxe
·+1 not a fan
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omegaswisst
·Great to read through some of the design element suggestions posted so far. It only we could tweak these watches to suit our own personal tastes.
I think they are about 85% of the way there with these two watches. Question marks over the case back, thickness, CO-AXIAL wording on dial (hard to get away from branding here).
Would need to see them in the flesh and a test run on the wrist for final conclusions.
I think they are about 85% of the way there with these two watches. Question marks over the case back, thickness, CO-AXIAL wording on dial (hard to get away from branding here).
Would need to see them in the flesh and a test run on the wrist for final conclusions.
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