100% agree. Discussed this with the Boutique manager when I picked mine up and they agreed as well. Given the importance of this piece, and what Omega has done for the regular Speedy and the 1948, this was a bit of a let down from a strap perspective.

 

Piss off little notch!!!!

 

Hmmm. Based on all the photos it looked more like those screws attached the short centre link to the end link, so in theory you could take the middle part off and still attach the bracelet and end link to the case...at least this is how I imagined it...

 

Well if that’s the case, I promise to remove my tacky Luke Skywalker meme.

 

I think Luke gets to stay. Removing that screw-on plate/centre "link" doesn't win you anything; it's the end link with the extra tab that's the problem….the whole lot has to go. The best hope is to find one of those folded end links with precisely the right centre cutout width for the last real centre link on the bracelet. There was a thread that discussed something like this for the FOIS.

 

^^^ Or some enterprising soul will design, machine and polish a new end link without the new center tab but with wing tabs to stabilize the new end link. And then you'll have to source the bracelet from Omega, and the word is this bracelet will not be for sale to the general public.

 

I’d be first in line for those end links.

 

Anyone WW got a LE number above 1k yet?

 

but as @Evitzee said, without the bracelet they are useless, unless you want to use them as earrings.

 

Yes, that is how it's set up. The spring bar still goes through the piece with the notch though so all you'd accomplish by removing the center piece is just a gap in the middle of it - the areas right above the screw holes still fit flush to the case.

Using Pepe's photo as an example as it's from a better angle -



The red box is what would be removed, but the spring bar loops through the first link of the bracelet via the "main body" of the end link, at the red arrows. So you're still stuck with the notch :/

 

Right, that's what I was trying to say….rather inarticulately. What is the width of the centre link by the way?

 

Now it’s in the wild. In San Marcos TX shopping with my dad.

 

Is this true for people who put down a full deposit at an AD? Or are we at the back of the line after the OBs get their allotment?

 

I heard from my OB manager that boutiques will get served first, whether this means ALL boutique orders will get filled first before the AD's I don't know. Only Omega HQ knows as they are the one parceling out the watches.

 

After some research, I found 2 OB's in Europe and 1 in Asia that have the 50th Goldie either in stock and/or no waitlist. Unfortunately it doesn't benefit me much in the US but PM me and I'd be more than happy to share...and of course if anyone would like to repay the favor with knowledge of a US OB with one, I won't say no

 

That cork strap looks to me completely obsolete.

 

Just like the 50 yr old Apollo technology. It's all old and obsolete.

 

As one more data point, my OB (USA) has given me a September estimate on delivery. They have received two so far (of 14).

 

Did you request an specific number? My OB told me that special request might take longer. I was the first one to receive mine but I don’t believe that I was the very first one to put the full deposit. I was maybe 3rd or 4rth. Maybe they didn’t like the number the OB got and rather wait.

 

I was told that specific numbers could not be requested, but I did put down a full deposit.