Jonathan40
·Was lucky enough to be in Geneva this weekend for visit, beautiful city.
Did Patek museum and then Omega yesterday.
Well worth a visit but not as many watches from moon landings as I would have liked. They could do a whole section on the special editions and it would be cool.
Anyway 4pm tour over head over to the boutique onsite and see the white dial speedy on display. It’s only the display model but the lady who welcomed us and was taken with my Aqua Terra, wife’s constellation and my son was wearing my Apollo 11 40th anniversary on an Omega NATO
Said they had it actually in stock. She brought a tray out with the bracelet version, the rubber strap and the leather. Three pieces. We sat down I tried it on was talking about it and my 20+ years love of Omega when there must have been some signal behind because she said she had to leave for a few moments and another woman arrives at the table.
The tray was removed and we were chatting and she went an got the brand new Apollo 8 model out with a tray showing all the cool parts blown up and a guide through the production. I wasn’t interested in the watch but said how lovely it was but too big and not for me. The tray with Speedy on had long gone and she asked if there was anything else I would like to see except the white dial because I’d already seen that. At that point I got up and continued to walk around the store but my son was looking at a something she got out. The First Lady had never left the store and we were talking about children and watches etc and I was dying to ask why the swap took place but didn’t want to make her feel awkward as her colleague was also in earshot. Very strange and left a bad taste in the mouth as we left. Even my wife asked why did they not sell you the watch.
Turns out Omega are just like Rolex in that you can’t buy the latest hype sports models even if Omega have them in stock and your face doesn’t fit.
Did Patek museum and then Omega yesterday.
Well worth a visit but not as many watches from moon landings as I would have liked. They could do a whole section on the special editions and it would be cool.
Anyway 4pm tour over head over to the boutique onsite and see the white dial speedy on display. It’s only the display model but the lady who welcomed us and was taken with my Aqua Terra, wife’s constellation and my son was wearing my Apollo 11 40th anniversary on an Omega NATO
Said they had it actually in stock. She brought a tray out with the bracelet version, the rubber strap and the leather. Three pieces. We sat down I tried it on was talking about it and my 20+ years love of Omega when there must have been some signal behind because she said she had to leave for a few moments and another woman arrives at the table.
The tray was removed and we were chatting and she went an got the brand new Apollo 8 model out with a tray showing all the cool parts blown up and a guide through the production. I wasn’t interested in the watch but said how lovely it was but too big and not for me. The tray with Speedy on had long gone and she asked if there was anything else I would like to see except the white dial because I’d already seen that. At that point I got up and continued to walk around the store but my son was looking at a something she got out. The First Lady had never left the store and we were talking about children and watches etc and I was dying to ask why the swap took place but didn’t want to make her feel awkward as her colleague was also in earshot. Very strange and left a bad taste in the mouth as we left. Even my wife asked why did they not sell you the watch.
Turns out Omega are just like Rolex in that you can’t buy the latest hype sports models even if Omega have them in stock and your face doesn’t fit.
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