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Guys, Is this watch too big for my wrist?

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I have this weakness of buying ladies Omega's, then regretting it, but this one ... oh my god

This photo doesn't do it justice but it has an anthracite sunburst dial, steel indices and white stripes on top, the contrast and lighting on different conditions is just incredible

I just wish it was available on a mens size, I rarely see non-white/steel dials, haven't seen a gray sunburst for mens on auctions yet (There's that one 168.029 Constellation however whenever I see one, the dial is damaged)
 
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What do you mean with"too big for my wrist"?

Did you mean 'too small'?

Sorry but IMO this one doesn't looks good on your wrist.

If you like it wear it but you asked and thats my opinion.

From time to time there is an grey dial Omega for sale on the forum but indeed not very often 🙁
 
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kaplan kaplan
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I have this weakness of buying ladies Omega's, then regretting it, but this one ... oh my god
You need a woman. Could be mom, sister, daughter, niece, or the waitress at the bar down the street.
 
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Humor...

By today's fashion trends and styles, it is definitely too small, however, if you walk to the beat of a different drummer and like it... what does an opinion from someone you've never met really matter?

Consider in the 1930s, the watch would have been the ideal size for your wrist. An interesting read about the evolution of wristwatch sizes... take a look...

"Up until the early 1900s, pocket watches ruled the day for men’s timekeeping fashion. These were worn on a chain in a pocket, either in a vest or trousers. It was considered “sissy” for men to wear watches on their wrists. However, in 1904 Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont collaborated with his friend Louis Cartier, the famous French watchmaker, to design and create a timepiece for the wrist that could be easily read while flying. Something that wasn’t so clunky and awkward as a pocket watch which Dumont hated to keep having to pull out of his pocket in flight. Thus the Cartier “Santos” was born, and the official birth of a new era in timepiece design: the wristwatch.

The wristwatch really caught on during WWI (circa 1917) where the soldiers had the same needs as Dumont… a convenient timekeeping apparatus that didn’t need to be pulled out of a pocket during stressful action times. Finally, it became not only convenient, but more importantly, fashionable, for men to wear something on their wrists. Thus the Golden Age of the wristwatch began. And it was good.

Things moved forward rather predictably in wristwatch design…. since the mechanical movements were mostly round miniature pocket watch movements, this movement shape dictated the case design…”form follows function”: the mantra of the Art Deco era in the 1920’s. But, innovators like the Gruen watch company, and Bulova Watch Company, began to design and engineer rectangular shaped mechanical movements, thus opening up more design avenues for square and rectangular shaped watches. For the next 30 or 40 years the watch industry made their collective living off wristwatches in the round, square, and rectangular variations of this design theme. Interestingly, from a modern point of view, these watches seem “tiny”. The round shapes were around 28 to 32mm, and the rectangular and squares were in the 26 to 29mm average range. As you can see in the below picture, a Bulova rectangular shaped movement is dwarfed by the Panerai (44mm). The movement, which takes up most of the case, only measures 25mm x 17mm.

And when the movement is placed back in the watch (below), it still only measures 29mm x 20mm, and looks like a “coffee table” for the Panerai. Also pictured is the quintessential dress watch from the 1970’s and 1980’s, The Rolex 18kt gold Cellini, which measures a whopping 31.5mm diameter. This watch belongs to a friend of mine who got it as a graduation gift from college. When I put this on my wrist, I feel like I’m wearing a child’s toy watch!"
Source: https://www.ablogtowatch.com/the-evolution-of-wrist-watch-sizes/
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Marsimaxam Marsimaxam
By today's fashion trends and styles, it is definitely too small, however, if you walk to the beat of a different drummer and like it... what does an opinion from someone you've never met really matter?

This guy who is a regular vendor at the Chelsea flea markets in NYC would agree 😁

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Easier to wear it with long shirtsleeves (rolled down) 😀
 
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It depends on the outfit you wear it with - a strapless evening gown or a cocktail dress, and some high heels - I think it could work.
 
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kaplan kaplan
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I have this weakness of buying ladies Omega's, then regretting it, but this one ... oh my god
I'll be a "lady" if you buy me Omega's. We'll start with a near-NOS EW Speedy 321, please. I guarantee you'll regret it but I'm being honest.
 
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kaplan kaplan
I have this weakness of buying ladies Omega's, then regretting it, but this one ... oh my god

Oh man I would love to FIFY this one but I promised Bill Sohne I would try to behave better 😁
 
kaplan
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Indeed I was joking, sadly I can't pull it off even though I wish I could, it looks like one of those neck bracelets girls wear on my wrist, even though first close up photo I shared made the watch look bigger, in reality it's pretty small with an 11mm lug width

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But after seeing this watch, I started regularly looking for Men's De Ville's - with hopes that a male version was made with the same choices, the white hands, white on steel indices, grey sunburst dial, I just can't get enough of it

Edit: And also the non-printed steel Omega logo ...
 
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Not 11mm, strictly, but 3/8 of an inch. Must be US collection. 😁
 
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