Buy now, don’t wait.
Do you have the green one yet 🥰
( love spending other people’s money.. 😁 )
I agree with @Annapolis , if you can do it, DO IT! Because we never know what's to come and it's important to take time to smell the roses.
And I'm with you on the OB; I combine it with a trip for extra spice, and there's no way I'd buy an Omega from anyone other than my OB. There are lots of people who don't value the luxury buying experience: cool, man! For me the equation is:
LuxuryProduct = LuxuryBuyingExperience + TangibleThing
We can all have different preferences, and still all love watches.
If you like the current generation, buy it, and enjoy it. No guarantee that its replacement will arrive any time soon and even if it does that it'll automatically improve on this version -- see what passes for the current Seiko Marinemaster, and many other examples -- or that you'll like it as much. Given Omega's recent releases, it's also likely to cost more, perhaps quite a bit more.
I've owned several Seamaster Divers and have my preferences. Outside of some tech products, I'm not convinced that waiting on the next great thing is a viable strategy. But YMMV of course.
It does not seem like this is a stretch for you financially. As result, I’d go ahead and get the black one now. If a new one drops in a couple of years and you love it, my guess is you’ll find the dough to pick one of those up too 😉
Also, I recognize you don’t want to buy a watch on the gray market, but it sounds like to me you've got a couple taking up space in your watch case that you could sell to help fund this one. Just a thought.
Like you Ofan, I enjoy current generation DIVER 300M's. Like you Ofan, I want to purchase another one.
Did you see the picture that STANDY posted? WOW!! I have to have green. It looks AMAZING!
If I were you, I would purchase the black one tomorrow.
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I am happy to meet someone here who is also toying with the idea of buying another Diver 300M. 👍
Yes, I saw the green one STANDY posted. I read all the messages here very carefully. 😉
I have to admit, I've never seen the green version live before. However, I will definitely take a look at it before I make a final decision.
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That's a very good argument!
I also wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have more diversity in my watch collection. I mean buying a different Omega model and not the Diver 300M.
I've always set myself the goal of having as many different watches as possible so that my collection doesn't get boring.
For example, I would also like to buy an Aqua Terra. Or a Speedmaster 57, which are watches that I don't yet have in my collection.
The only problem is that I simply like the Diver 300M much more. 😀
I'm afraid that in a few years' time I might regret having bought so many identical watch models like the Diver 300M instead of a completely different model, which I don't have yet.
I think most watch collectors try to buy as many different watch models as possible and not several different variations of one and the same model.
How do you see it?
From this point of view, I actually find it better to own many different Omega models. That would simply bring more variety when wearing them and it would certainly be nicer to look at if you had lots of completely different watches, even if you don't like wearing some of them.
On the other hand, it makes absolutely no financial sense to buy watches that you don't like so much just to have a varied collection. Especially when there's so much money involved and you're destroying a lot of money by buying each of these watches. If they were at least watches that were reasonably worthwhile, stable or increasing in value, then I could cope with buying watches that I don't like so much.
Inspired by @Annapolis 's post & FWIW, I'd say I'm in my 3rd era of watch collecting...
* Era #1 was buy what I thought was cool ... I ended up getting rid of everything from then because they stopped being me. This gave way to...
* Era #2 was fight-the-man: I hated everything about fancy jewelry, and rolexes made me shudder, so I collected mostly Swatches, 99% Sistem 51s because I thought the manufacturing engineering was super cool, and g-shocks. I still have all of them!
* Era #3 is 100% experience purchases. It started by in 2015 where I tied a watch purchase to a trip and I've done 3 since then and all of the watches are reminders of the experiences & trips so I'd never sell them.
I go in knowing what I want, but usually end up with something completely different! And that makes the watch all the more special.
Was that officially announced? I don’t think we know anything about that yet…
