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·Visited my local OB (if an hour and fifteen minute drive can be considered "local") to see the sights---it's been a long time.
I mainly just wanted to have a look at some of the newer releases in the metal (including the summer blue dials) and to check out a few JLC pieces at a different store.
But what caught my eye---very unexpectedly---was the Tresor. A line I've seen on the Omega site many times, but never really thought much about. I have to say, seeing and handling these, I'm really impressed! I'd tried on a JLC Master Control Date just moments before---granted, a different level of movement-finishing there, but the Omega did not come off poorly in the comparison! A really fine, simple time-only dress watch.
The one that first caught my eye was the white dial small-seconds one.
Unfortunately, it had diamonds on the bezel (and costs 13,600 USD). Diamonds are not my thing. And for some reason that I can't fathom, Omega doesn't make this watch sans diamonds. (There's a date one, sans small seconds, but it's not as sharp, to my eyes.) If they did, I might have had a hard time not buying it.
They do make such a diamond-less model in black.
It's really striking! I don't need another black-dial watch (as that's basically all I have right now). There's a blue one too that's gorgeous, but didn't sing to me in the metal.
All of them feature manual movements with superb detailing.
Again, even right after handling a JLC, these watches didn't pale.
The pricing seems ambitious: even sans diamond, we're still in the $7k range, which feels like nearly twice the value I'd place (and getting into the price point where a JLC is gettable)---and the preowned market seems to hold at around $5,500 which still seems high. So I don't see myself moving on one of these.
Just... something that hadn't even been on my radar. Excellently proportioned, wearing small (for 40mm), and wonderfully thin, but still somehow exuding the robustness one associates with Omega. It's a totally different feel than an Aqua Terra on a leather strap.
I mainly just wanted to have a look at some of the newer releases in the metal (including the summer blue dials) and to check out a few JLC pieces at a different store.
But what caught my eye---very unexpectedly---was the Tresor. A line I've seen on the Omega site many times, but never really thought much about. I have to say, seeing and handling these, I'm really impressed! I'd tried on a JLC Master Control Date just moments before---granted, a different level of movement-finishing there, but the Omega did not come off poorly in the comparison! A really fine, simple time-only dress watch.
The one that first caught my eye was the white dial small-seconds one.
Unfortunately, it had diamonds on the bezel (and costs 13,600 USD). Diamonds are not my thing. And for some reason that I can't fathom, Omega doesn't make this watch sans diamonds. (There's a date one, sans small seconds, but it's not as sharp, to my eyes.) If they did, I might have had a hard time not buying it.
They do make such a diamond-less model in black.
It's really striking! I don't need another black-dial watch (as that's basically all I have right now). There's a blue one too that's gorgeous, but didn't sing to me in the metal.
All of them feature manual movements with superb detailing.
Again, even right after handling a JLC, these watches didn't pale.
The pricing seems ambitious: even sans diamond, we're still in the $7k range, which feels like nearly twice the value I'd place (and getting into the price point where a JLC is gettable)---and the preowned market seems to hold at around $5,500 which still seems high. So I don't see myself moving on one of these.
Just... something that hadn't even been on my radar. Excellently proportioned, wearing small (for 40mm), and wonderfully thin, but still somehow exuding the robustness one associates with Omega. It's a totally different feel than an Aqua Terra on a leather strap.
