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Planet Ocean: Steel or Leather?

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With acknowledgment that this is a 2-month-old thread that somehow got revived: I’m getting the sense that the overheated luxury watch market that got especially nutty during the pandemic is finally cooling down: the secondary prices for (non-Daytona) steel Rolexes have, in some cases, dropped dramatically. Omegas too are allegedly fetching less. (I haven’t done the empirical work to prove this: my claims are based on reputable podcasts and banter with ADs.)

Point is, if I were buying a new PO—not the hottest-selling Omega model to begin with—I’d buy it on steel and try to negotiate a “discount” in the form of a rubber strap (with hardware). If not totally gratis, at least steeply reduced. Can’t hurt to ask.
 
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EuroDriver EuroDriver
I can't make up my mind and need a little help here with my first world problem. Which do you vote for?

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Fantastic piece! I just picked up the same ref. last week. I had been alternating between to other watches with leather straps (blue/brown) for the past two years and was looking for a true tool watch. Steel bracelet all the way!
 
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Week 1 metal
Week 2 leather
Week 3 rubber
See which one you like better or change every other week.
 
hen
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That Steel bracelet is gorgeous, don`t miss that. Only brushed bracelet in the Omega collection?
 
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Annapolis Annapolis
With acknowledgment that this is a 2-month-old thread that somehow got revived: I’m getting the sense that the overheated luxury watch market that got especially nutty during the pandemic is finally cooling down: the secondary prices for (non-Daytona) steel Rolexes have, in some cases, dropped dramatically. Omegas too are allegedly fetching less. (I haven’t done the empirical work to prove this: my claims are based on reputable podcasts and banter with ADs.)

Point is, if I were buying a new PO—not the hottest-selling Omega model to begin with—I’d buy it on steel and try to negotiate a “discount” in the form of a rubber strap (with hardware). If not totally gratis, at least steeply reduced. Can’t hurt to ask.
Not directly relevant, but when buying a new green Aqua Terra at my OB last week, I enquired about the leather strap, which they offered to me free if I was prepared to pay for the deployant. I agreed and that should mean that adding an AT rubber strap in the future is less of an outlay, provided I’m prepared to switch the deployant over.
 
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Leather with a diver just feels wrong. Nylon or rubber for me. The bracelet is too heavy with the PO.
 
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Zman4eva Zman4eva
Leather with a diver just feels wrong. Nylon or rubber for me. The bracelet is too heavy with the PO.
Most people only desk dive so not like it really matters.
 
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Leather on a PO…

buy the PO on bracelet, they are the best bracelets Omega makes hands down. They are ridiculously expensive to buy after.
 
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Leather on a PO…

buy the PO on bracelet, they are the best bracelets Omega makes hands down. They are ridiculously expensive to buy after.
Agreed… when the PO steel was unavailable for a few months, I considered buying the leather version and steel bracelet separate. They wanted almost $800 just for the bracelet!
 
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Agreed… when the PO steel was unavailable for a few months, I considered buying the leather version and steel bracelet separate. They wanted almost $800 just for the bracelet!
Only 800? Tudor wants 1k for their meh presidential...
 
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This is the backstory:

I bought the watch pre-owned from a local who decided that Rolex and Tudor were more to his liking. It came on the steel bracelet and included the alligator strap also.

I agree with some of the comments above in that for me, I don't care much for leather on a diver.

So I put the leather strap on my AT Worldtimer, and the WT's rubber strap on the PO. Perfect combinations for me.

I still swap back and forth between steel and rubber on the PO, depending on the occasion.

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