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·TL;DR - I’m keeping one Seamaster Professional 300m for daily wear, should it be the 2531.80 automatic or the 2541.80 quartz?
A few months ago I posted a thread asking for opinions as to whether the 41mm Omega Seamaster Professional 300m fit my ~7 inch wrist. After a few months of deliberation I finally decided I wanted the 41mm Seamaster to be my daily watch.
Now I have a second dilemma: I own two 41mm SMP’s from the 90s, the automatic 2531.80 and the quartz 2541.80. I plan to make one my daily wear watch and the other will be sold. I’d like to get opinions here even though I think I know what the advice will be. As background, both watches have been fully serviced in the last year with new dials, bezels, hands, crowns, and gaskets installed. Yes, I even had the dials replaced as I wanted an SMP as new as possible.
My head says keep the quartz 2541.80 that was worn by Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye. It’s accurate (running +4 seconds per MONTH). It’s also durable, is always set to the right time, is always set to the right date, and has the jumping hour hand for traveling different time zones or handling a daylight savings time change. It’s still a Bond watch (which is meaningless to many but important to me).
My heart says keep the automatic 2531.80. It has even more Bond credibility as it was worn by Brosnan in the three Bond movies after GoldenEye. Perhaps most importantly, I feel like I’d have to turn in my watch enthusiast card if I wore a quartz watch every day. Watch enthusiasts wear mechanical watches! It would be a like car driving enthusiast choosing an automatic transmission over manual for a sports car.
I will add this detail, keeping both is not an option I’m going to choose. I’m trying to reduce the amount of stuff I own so having both is counter to that—especially when the watches are visually nearly identical. I want to choose one watch and wear it nearly every day. I should also add that if I chose the quartz SMP I still have other mechanical watches I can wear, such as my favorite watch, the Longines Conquest Heritage Limited Edition 1954-2014, which is 35mm with an acrylic crystal. But given that most days I’m wearing casual short sleeves (I live in Arizona), a 35mm dress watch is not an ideal choice for every day wear. I will also say that resale value of the two watches is not a consideration. This is about simplifying my collection and my life--it's not an economic necessity.
So what’s your opinion? Can I still be in the cool kids club if I wore a quartz watch every day? Should I choose nostalgia over practicality? I’d love hear what other OF members say.
A few months ago I posted a thread asking for opinions as to whether the 41mm Omega Seamaster Professional 300m fit my ~7 inch wrist. After a few months of deliberation I finally decided I wanted the 41mm Seamaster to be my daily watch.
Now I have a second dilemma: I own two 41mm SMP’s from the 90s, the automatic 2531.80 and the quartz 2541.80. I plan to make one my daily wear watch and the other will be sold. I’d like to get opinions here even though I think I know what the advice will be. As background, both watches have been fully serviced in the last year with new dials, bezels, hands, crowns, and gaskets installed. Yes, I even had the dials replaced as I wanted an SMP as new as possible.
My head says keep the quartz 2541.80 that was worn by Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye. It’s accurate (running +4 seconds per MONTH). It’s also durable, is always set to the right time, is always set to the right date, and has the jumping hour hand for traveling different time zones or handling a daylight savings time change. It’s still a Bond watch (which is meaningless to many but important to me).
My heart says keep the automatic 2531.80. It has even more Bond credibility as it was worn by Brosnan in the three Bond movies after GoldenEye. Perhaps most importantly, I feel like I’d have to turn in my watch enthusiast card if I wore a quartz watch every day. Watch enthusiasts wear mechanical watches! It would be a like car driving enthusiast choosing an automatic transmission over manual for a sports car.
I will add this detail, keeping both is not an option I’m going to choose. I’m trying to reduce the amount of stuff I own so having both is counter to that—especially when the watches are visually nearly identical. I want to choose one watch and wear it nearly every day. I should also add that if I chose the quartz SMP I still have other mechanical watches I can wear, such as my favorite watch, the Longines Conquest Heritage Limited Edition 1954-2014, which is 35mm with an acrylic crystal. But given that most days I’m wearing casual short sleeves (I live in Arizona), a 35mm dress watch is not an ideal choice for every day wear. I will also say that resale value of the two watches is not a consideration. This is about simplifying my collection and my life--it's not an economic necessity.
So what’s your opinion? Can I still be in the cool kids club if I wore a quartz watch every day? Should I choose nostalgia over practicality? I’d love hear what other OF members say.
