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gostang9
·Now we know at least who is partly responsible for THIS. Yes you’re really DIFFERENT than us too.
As for being different, that I will own proudly! 😎
Omega Speedmaster Hodinkee 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
As for being different, that I will own proudly! 😎
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gostang9
·I have a hard time connecting the fact that the PN hit records today with the fact that they were not liked originally. I do not see any other reason than fashion, trend and communication to explain why a valjoux 22 or whatever gets sold for 200K these days. So, if in 50 years or so, people decide that they the-only-vintage-watch-to-buy is a speedmaster that does not look like a speedmaster but which is similar to an old one, with funky colours, and a coloured subdial at 9 o'clock that is useless, then this is probably the watch to buy today? In the meantime, I'll buy other watches.
- had they been sold originally in huge quantities then they wouldn't be as rare today and also not command the same premium
- had a famous person not worn them proudly then they wouldn't have gotten the same level of recognition and also not command the same premium
Who knows, maybe I'll get one of these 500 LE units, wear it proudly and become mega-famous some day... and then everyone will want one desperately to emulate me 40 years from now and this thing will become the most expensive LE ever sold by Omega... 😲
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queriver
·Damn, I should have bought one of these Hodinkee LEs. You're already semi-mega-famous hanging out as you do with the world's most famous spy.😉
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Lonestar
·The original 'Paul Newman' Daytona is rare today because it was not liked originally, sat on store shelves unsold... today they hit records at auction.
I'm perfectly fine being 'different' in actually liking this watch while most people hate it.
I have always been drawn to the colours of the MK40 (sounds like most of the OF community doesn't... fine by me)
I prefer the 3 subdials at 3, 6 and 9 positions (so this version is better for me than the MK40)
I like simpler dials (so this version again better, others seem to prefer the complications of the MK40... yet few want to own one... 🤔 )
I very much like the bubbly alpha numerals (see my current avatar from my Bulova diver).
If I had designed this watch, I would have minimized or eliminated the seconds marking around the perimeter of the dial and moved the numerals outward and then I would have made them a beautiful fauxtina as we see on lovely vintage watches. (that's just me, and I know I'm pretty much on my own for liking this thing in the first place... my teachers always told me I was a bit 'different'..)
My thinking pretty much exactly... agree with all the above. that makes two of us...
... plus the others who possibly exist but don't dare voice their opinion here because no-one likes to swim against the tide on "community" forums. Looks like there are 498 other people who DO agree with us though - just not here. Which is fine 😀
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gostang9
·This watch seems to make no sense horologically. Which end of the two-headed seconds hand are you suppose to use? I suppose you pick blue on left or right and then remember to use that the next time you check the accuracy of your watch.
This is an interesting point, does anyone have a reasonable explanation why a 2 sided pointed would be used for the seconds sub-dial?
When the long end is facing straight up, the 'right' side colored blue would match with the right half of the blue colored sub-dial, so I assume that means the long end is the point that should be referenced?
I cannot figure out why the short end is there...
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LeonDeBayonne
·This is an interesting point, does anyone have a reasonable explanation why a 2 sided pointed would be used for the seconds sub-dial?
When the long end is facing straight up, the 'right' side colored blue would match with the right half of the blue colored sub-dial, so I assume that means the long end is the point that should be referenced?
I cannot figure out why the short end is there...
As I stated the design of the 9 o'clock subdial does not make any sense. But who cares? The more stupid, the more unwanted, the more desirable in 50 years.🤪
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watchknut
·This is sad...
The watch could have been very cool, but instead it looks like Ray Charles was given access to a parts bin.
The watch could have been very cool, but instead it looks like Ray Charles was given access to a parts bin.
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gostang9
·As I stated the design of the 9 o'clock subdial does not make any sense. But who cares? The more stupid, the more unwanted, the more desirable in 50 years.🤪
@Robert-Jan - any thoughts on any legitimate purpose for the double-ended seconds hand? Is it simply a style element that serves no function?
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!This is an interesting point, does anyone have a reasonable explanation why a 2 sided pointed would be used for the seconds sub-dial?
When the long end is facing straight up, the 'right' side colored blue would match with the right half of the blue colored sub-dial, so I assume that means the long end is the point that should be referenced?
I cannot figure out why the short end is there...
I get it. I just don’t like it.
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WiZARD
·That fake 24h subdial, with runnings seconds looks like a chinese fake daytona where they add date to one subdial, as the actual movement has a date function there 😁
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gostang9
·Now we know at least who is partly responsible for THIS. Yes you’re really DIFFERENT than us too.
(pardon my weak attempt at photo-shop... and it would come on a new solid-link version of an 1171 bracelet)
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cristos71
·This is an interesting point, does anyone have a reasonable explanation why a 2 sided pointed would be used for the seconds sub-dial?
I cannot figure out why the short end is there...
You're overthinking things, it's clear that the sub-dial wants to be an aeroplane and the sub-dial hand is doing an impersonation of a propeller 🙄
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cristos71
·That makes sense, as the yellow tip of the chrono hand also resembles an aeroplane as well... 👍
Damn, I think you may be right there! Stupid me, I was thinking the red and yellow hand was a nod to the tomato ketchup and mustard that the guy's grandad always used to put on his hotdogs back in the day...
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Dombo63
·Perhaps there should be one commemorating this forum?
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chickenman26
·My Boutique guy sent me a copy of the press release yesterday. The copy read that the watch was a "re-imagined" Day-Date, followed by all the usual LE bloggage and stating that Hodinkee is a "tastemaker." So, is this a Speedy Pro that "identifies Day-Date"? Maybe Omega hired a new designer?
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