I’ve been charging the lume with my mobile phone light.
The watch doesn’t look great under this harsh light. Is this the sort of thing you are talking about?
After owning a few matte dial PO's, and a 300mc, I found the glossy dials on the newer versions hard on the eyes. I ended up getting a blue Tudor Pelagos instead of a Ti PO.
No, I believe its the previous gen PO's, which have the 8500 movement. They had ceramic bezels but matte dials I believe.
I love my 8500 dial It looks amazingmost of the time. The thing I hate about my PO is the bezel. It has a lot of play and has been sent for repair once and returned misaligned. Then a watchmaker at the OB in san antonio corrected the misalignment but it went back to flimsy. Now the hour hand won't go past 9:00 and the jump hour function is not working. I've really had very bad luck with my watch. I sent it to omega last week again. Lets see how it returns.
Yeah.... But let's be honest... No one actually bought one of those did they.
And if you want to be pedantic...
I know you were. But I think you're missing the point. Someone was asking what were the last PO's to have matte dials, to which I replied the 8500's.
The run of the mill black dial 8500's have matte dials do they not? We know there are versions of the 8500 that have glossy dials, just as there are versions of the 2500's that do too! So I don't really get the point you were trying to make??
Here's a couple of pics I've just taken which kind of show the point, but I think sometimes the dial looks even worse tbh.
Nice light:
Brighter light, and not catching the dial nicely:
Everyone has different tastes; I found the diver Seamaster prior to 2018 look a little more like a standard watch, but the newer one with its shinier bezel to standout out more and it looks like a higher end watch. Besides the better movement and being able to see the movement from the back, I like the shiny bezel. I feel the same way about the planet ocean watch. It just stands out more like a beautiful piece of jewelry that just attracts your eye.
