Hey, I can dream, can't I? Lol...

 

i know i'm against the crowds here, but i'll pick the omega of the two every time...

 

Really? That's interesting. Price/value aside, you would still pick the Omega from a horological perspective? What are your reasons?

 

That has to be the least attractive Patek I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong it's still attractive, I just expect better from Patek.

 

Remember trying on the 5960p in a used shop a while agi and it didn't wear very well, too thick for a start, it felt "unbalanced".

 

My opinion, again, will run contrary to almost everyone else's, but here it is: patek watches, at least looks-wise, never did/do much for me...
Performance-based (silly unnecessary super-complications aside), I'll stack my vintage omegas and rolex against any other mechanical watch.

 

Not everyone - I feel the same generally. I find the one above to be quite ugly actually, along with every other model where they use that oversized sub-dial at 6. Like Rolex, not much in their modern line up appeals to me in the slightest, but vintage is another matter.

But the same goes for Omega too...and as I've said before, I don't really see the appeal in the Omega in this thread...different strokes I guess.

Cheers, Al

 

Chronographs with subdials at 12 - 9 - 6 give me the heebie jeebies, and day-dates bother me too so.....

(Yeah I know it's not a chrono subdial at 12, but still)

 

Yes, vintage vs modern-huge difference in likeability. Most post-70s watches are just not....very likeable, and I'll leave it at that.

 

Hmm... are 80's watches with tritium dials not considered vintage?

 

Sure...I think the 'rule' is cca 25yo for vintage, and 50 for antique? Or somesuch..
For myself, being an omega guy, it all ended when omega 'died' in the early 70s. You can say the current omega watch company is a franken, or to be exact, an igor.

 

Ditto for me. I find the Omega too busy, and the 5960 rather ugly.

The layout of the Patek isn''t very attractive with the large complex subdial below - a urologist colleague said it looked like a man who's had one testicle removed. And the way they mangled the fonts of month and day to fit them into the windows is just fugly, from a typography perspective.

 

I can't decide whether this is genuine commentary from a true Omega connoisseur, or sour grapes...