Overall, I like the aesthetics. I've just found it to be an unnecessarily thick watch. If Omega made the PO 12mm, and kept everything else the same, it'd immediately jump to the front of my acquisitions line.
Aside from the usual no-date, no-He valve variation requests, I would like to see:
- Sword hands
- Symmetrical bezel with readable minute divisions (rather than the inverted style) and luminous.
- Return to whatever typeset was being used for the cardinals before the switch to Eurostile.
How did you like the 2500 in 42mm? Its very thin. In fact I think my 3313 is the 2nd thinest PO lol. Although I have to admit the 39.5 on the wrist works insanely well considering its thickness.
When I first tried the watch on at my AD I thought if only it was as little bit thinner and a little bit lighter. But after a day on the wrist, I love the way it wears and wouldn't change a thing on it. These watches feel indestructable when your wearing them. If the Seafaring Viking's owned watches, they would probably be Planet Oceans lol. If you're looking for a thinner diving watch with less weight, it's called a Seamaster Diver 300.
I think the 2500 is a nice piece, but I really like the smaller script and ceramic bezel+dial on the recent releases. I've also considered picking up a LMLE, but the premium relative to other 2500s is insane. That said though, the thickness is still ~14.5mm. If the caseback had a concave bevel, allowing it to disappear easily into the wrist, I could probably pull one off.
I own the SM 300m, and I think that could be thinner as well. A watch can be large, with great presence, but still be wearable and ergonomic. The Speedmaster is a 42mm watch, but it can be reasonably worn by virtually everyone despite its size. That's because the height has been divided into the high dome crystal, bezel, and caseback. The PO can only take advantage of its bezel and caseback, as the crystal's dome is essentially negligible.
