Seamaster 1948 Small Seconds vs Center Seconds

Such a great looking watch! I’m one of the minority also who prefer the central seconds, but they both look great and were a great release.

They are both nice watches for sure but I vote for the sub-second.

Saw one at the boutique today when I was ordering the steel mesh for myself. But it's the normal center seconds and not the small seconds.

Partial to small seconds dials . . . .

Small seconds, because I really never see them and they do look more vintage.

For me, it's less a question of small seconds vs sweep seconds, but rather: "am I bothered, by the length and shapes of the hour and minute hands?"

The hour and minute hands on the Small Seconds version, extend further out than the hour and minute hands on the Central seconds. It's my personal preference to have longer hands. I also prefer feuille hands over dauphine hands.

On the Central seconds - the hour hand looks too short. Take a look at the gap distance, between the tip of the hour hands and the hour markers on the original 1948 central seconds. Next, check the distance of that gap on the 1948 Central seconds re-edition. Photo credit from Monochrome watches.

Original 1948 central seconds: small gap between tip of hour hands to the hour marker's arrow tip.

1948 re-edition central seconds: the length of gap distance, is now almost as long as the length of the hour hand itself. Too much empty space, from my perspective.