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·It’s still blue/green but when they say white they mean the daylight color is white rather than the vintage patina looking color found on the No Time To Die
Possible new 300m spotted on Daniel Craig
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·I really have come to like having a date complication. For much of the day, I don't have a phone and I hate looking at it just to know the time anyway. Yes, I'm at a computer much of the time, but I'm not carrying the computer everywhere. I do get that it sometimes ruins a watch, but I think the 6 o'clock position is a good compromise on these later SMPs. Maybe for a fancier watch I'd wear lees of the time, I'd be more inclined to go dateless, but to me, the SMP is an everyday wear watch and I didn't buy it to have it sit around in a box. Long way to say, I really use a date window more than a few times a day and would much prefer one with than without.
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McBeardy
·I really have come to like having a date complication. For much of the day, I don't have a phone and I hate looking at it just to know the time anyway. Yes, I'm at a computer much of the time, but I'm not carrying the computer everywhere. I do get that it sometimes ruins a watch, but I think the 6 o'clock position is a good compromise on these later SMPs. Maybe for a fancier watch I'd wear lees of the time, I'd be more inclined to go dateless, but to me, the SMP is an everyday wear watch and I didn't buy it to have it sit around in a box. Long way to say, I really use a date window more than a few times a day and would much prefer one with than without.
That being said 2 of my 3 watches have no date & I prefer no dates. But I admit Omega done a pretty good job on the current SMPs with the colour coded 6 o clock dates.
Also when I’m not working I forgot that date like a bad ex.
Thinks it’s the symmetry I prefer and the fact not having to set when switching up watches.
Oddly my grail watch GO PanoLuna - I love the BIG date. Langë One also (but I have to be realistic 😂)
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·So next question do we think other colours will come (apart from the gold/bronze/ burgundy).
Will the release a standard blue, white or green?
Will the release a standard blue, white or green?
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFLume shot btw, showing the green/blue, looks great on the grey dial IMO.
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josiahg52
·My job involves me writing the date 75% of working hour day. So generally I know that.
That being said 2 of my 3 watches have no date & I prefer no dates. But I admit Omega done a pretty good job on the current SMPs with the colour coded 6 o clock dates.
Also when I’m not working I forgot that date like a bad ex.
Thinks it’s the symmetry I prefer and the fact not having to set when switching up watches.
Oddly my grail watch GO PanoLuna - I love the BIG date. Langë One also (but I have to be realistic 😂)
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·Please kill the domed sapphire on this modern watch. “STOP IT! you’re getting Bond wrong!”
For it to add .2mm of thickness, distort the gorgeous wave dial, and for the price to be 800$ more that the “state of the art in house ceramic” which was their upsell 6 years ago, is just pathetic. What a cash grab.
If these were meant to be tool watches, keep them titanium and make a titanium line. But this muddies the waters more on the seamaster line and provides no improvements while asking for more cash. 👎
For it to add .2mm of thickness, distort the gorgeous wave dial, and for the price to be 800$ more that the “state of the art in house ceramic” which was their upsell 6 years ago, is just pathetic. What a cash grab.
If these were meant to be tool watches, keep them titanium and make a titanium line. But this muddies the waters more on the seamaster line and provides no improvements while asking for more cash. 👎
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·I get you. I think for a "weekend watch" I'd be sans date person. Not having to set the date is a bonus. It may just be reassurance for me. Being able to look and see the date and be sure of it even though I probably could tell you if asked point blank. That and if it's well done, is a good thing to me. I do hate when it creates a lume "hole", though. You know, a spot where there's no lume. That is annoying.
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·Please kill the domed sapphire on this modern watch. “STOP IT! you’re getting Bond wrong!”
For it to add .2mm of thickness, distort the gorgeous wave dial, and for the price to be 800$ more that the “state of the art in house ceramic” which was their upsell 6 years ago, is just pathetic. What a cash grab.
If these were meant to be tool watches, keep them titanium and make a titanium line. But this muddies the waters more on the seamaster line and provides no improvements while asking for more cash. 👎
The ceramic & date variants the modern approach.
Don’t see the issue personally, vintage is selling.
But I get your point should be a few hundred less than the existing ones.
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·Please kill the domed sapphire on this modern watch. “STOP IT! you’re getting Bond wrong!”
For it to add .2mm of thickness, distort the gorgeous wave dial, and for the price to be 800$ more that the “state of the art in house ceramic” which was their upsell 6 years ago, is just pathetic. What a cash grab.
If these were meant to be tool watches, keep them titanium and make a titanium line. But this muddies the waters more on the seamaster line and provides no improvements while asking for more cash. 👎
Then there is this one. It's a single dome and people love to complain about it, but who is looking at their watch at this angle? And it's a simple thing to turn your wrist slightly. And another thing, this one is designed for diving by an actual diver and underwater, the single dome crystal works very well.
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·Distort the dial? How are you looking at your watch that you see distortion? It's double domed, so not very likely.
Then there is this one. It's a single dome and people love to complain about it, but who is looking at their watch at this angle? And it's a simple thing to turn your wrist slightly. And another thing, this one is designed for diving by an actual diver and underwater, the single dome crystal works very well.
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·I’m sorry, it’s a horrible design choice for a modern diver that did it better in every previous iteration the past thirty years with a flush, modern sapphire crystal. Let’s add more thickness and distortion to an already thick watch!
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mossrockss
·Over the summer I bought the Casino Royale generation coaxial SMP in black, sort of by accident (ebay seller accepted an offer I didn't expect he would). I ended up selling it because I wasn't really in the market for another SMP, but if I were desperate for a thinner, smaller, sleeker, dressier SMP in black, I would 100% just buy that.
The lumed bezel on this is great.
I predict (maybe it's wishful thinking) that this is the last refresh of this generation of SMP before they relaunch a next-gen model, maybe in 2 years.
The lumed bezel on this is great.
I predict (maybe it's wishful thinking) that this is the last refresh of this generation of SMP before they relaunch a next-gen model, maybe in 2 years.
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·The single dome on the ceramic is great, but the bubble effect on the new ones just isn’t it. To clarify. Leave that to the heritage models
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GrussGott
·The single dome on the ceramic is great, but the bubble effect on the new ones just isn’t it. To clarify. Leave that to the heritage models
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eldiano84
·So, is the steel faced 300 m the "bond" villain version of the 150k one? That's what it reminds me of tbh
Soooo will these be the new seamasters 300 going forward or can we expect a new design for the 2025 goldeneye 30th anniversary edition aside from the bond 60th?
Soooo will these be the new seamasters 300 going forward or can we expect a new design for the 2025 goldeneye 30th anniversary edition aside from the bond 60th?
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josiahg52
·I’m sorry, it’s a horrible design choice for a modern diver that did it better in every previous iteration the past thirty years with a flush, modern sapphire crystal. Let’s add more thickness and distortion to an already thick watch!
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josiahg52
·Well said. It's not that "divers" shouldn't have the domed crystal since anything goes (leather, gold, etc), but more that it's better for a heritage model.
The single dome on the ceramic is great, but the bubble effect on the new ones just isn’t it. To clarify. Leave that to the heritage models
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Mute
·So...they're removing a complication, while making the watch thicker, taking away micro-adjust on the bracelet and then raising the cost by $600? It's a bold move Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
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