Watches N+1…

I’d buy on a bracelet and get the rubber later.  You should defo buy one though. They are lovely watches

So a bit of lunch, sweating, and worrying about ever bumping into Kato, ended up here:

They’re going to be a bit of a thinning out of the collection when I get home, but this was a rare occasion of right place, right time and a watch that fits and feels perfectly.  I will were this more and with less fear than the Superocean Heritage as well, and am very please to own a co ax movement!

The Promaster is Jnr’s my first proper watch.

That’s a lovely watch Kryton.

Well done, nice watch, I reckon Jnr will have his eye on that before long!

👏 And about bloody time 😁

I second absolutely everything gaidong says about the pelagos (except  driving off a cliff) and although I dislike my perception is the original 42mm pelly wasn’t,  in fact or seemed ignored while people fornicate over the bb then bb58.  Now the smaller pellys exist they seem to get a lot of hype and the full fat still gets ignored.   Well….. ignored in as much as any tudor…. it is the brand that seems universally w@nked over!

Kryton,  I paid £3600 for a new one….. but that was when they were £4500. That was on bracelet. As said buy on the bracelet then get a strap of you want.  There are some super sub 20 quid silicon straps, or good vulcanised rubber such as rubber b or Zealanders which are far less than the oem.   You can also get decent snide deployants for about 20 quid if you want.  My bracelet still has the stickers on and the watch wears a black sailcloth with white stitches and looks incredible. Black with red stitches,  black, white or red rubber also really work.  I may try a red sailcloth soon too.

Boblo,  kato and I speak the truth.

Damn, took so long to write that you’d gone and bought it haha!  Well done,  good choice!

We need a stw omega club meet.

And about bloody time

Ha Ha cheers.  The AD had a difficult time and probably should have thought to ask my profession before we sat down, so £600 off the UK rrp including CC fees, £300 of international warranty extension to 7 years and a half price Promaster wasn’t a bad day out.   I am very happy indeed.  What an amazing piece of mechanical time keeping I’m so lucky to own.  He threw in a silver necklace with pink topaz stone tat-trinket for my daughter too.

Mrs K looked at the box and went “FFS, how over the top” 😂

Glad to see you have kept the tradition of an out of focus photo too 👍😆

A fantastic choice mate.  Seems to be a very popular watch around here!  You won’t be disappointed with it

If you think the Seamaster box is over the top, you should see the size of my Moonwatch box and it’s ridiculous paperweight thing 😂😂

Anyone had or got experience with Lum-Tec watches.

Looking at a beater solar dive watch and have come across this:

LÜM-TEC SPECIAL OPS MARINE 4

Also looking at the Seiko:

Prospex ‘Black Series’ Solar Diver’s 1965 Re-Interpretation

Any advice or alternatives greatly appreciated.

@scapegoat re. getting strap for your Omega, I’ve had this very well used SMP deployment clasp in a drawer for fifteen years or so. The navy Omega rubber strap is FUBAR’d, but the clasp is a replacement pin and a good polish away from being ready for a new home. Yours FOC if you can wait a couple of weeks.

What an amazing offer Pisco to Scapegoat. You should have your hand ripped off and then arm chewed up to the armpit. Very very generous, bravo.

Inbred853 – Unless you are a special ops marine I would go for the £299 but often in sale Citizen “Ray Mears” reissue and not the older “Royal Marines” printed one – for the same Walter issues.

@pisco. That’s a fantastic gesture, thank you very much indeed!

Apparently my new SMP is at the Authenticator and should be with me later this week.  Can’t wait!!

@kryton57  that’s a really nice watch, sounds like a great bit of  negotiation.

Cheers Wally but I’ll give the Citizen field watch a miss. Most numbers on a dial for me would be on the cardinal points and slightly less LARGE😁

Hopefully something else out there, Seiko might be worth tracking down for a try on. Lum Tec still a runner but probably to much of a faff to order and send back if I don’t get on with it.

I love the Pelageos of gaidong’s, I nearly bought a Pelageos a few years back, only a black one rather than blue, but I stepped back because I just couldn’t justify the cost.
Speaking of which, because the insurance company holding my largest pension plans is being an arse and dragging out the whole process of getting the money to my financial advisor, I decided to stop the purchase of the new limited edition Rallygraf before they finished the production process and got a refund. I based the order on the expectation of a chunk of cash arriving in plenty of time, but it hasn’t happened yet so I’ve got the money back and stashed away just in case of an emergency; things are a wee bit tight at the moment, with just my state pension coming in.
Once everything is sorted, I may well get a Yema NavyGraf, they do an official French Marine services version all in blue like gaidong’s Pelageos, which is nicely understated and somewhere around £800-ish, so affordable.
Those Omega Seamaster models I’m afraid just don’t float my boat, if you’ll excuse the expression – I don’t like the large facets on the bezel, and I really do not like the hands! I’m not keen on arrowhead hands on any watches either, Seiko, Rolex, Omega… my favourite Seiko is the MM300, I love the hand set on that, and the Tudor ‘Snowflake’ style as well. Can’t say I’m too fussed about the Rolex ‘Mercedes’ style hands much either, they’re so common on so many other brands, or seem to be I’m amazed they get away with it.

One thing I particularly like about the Pelageos is the fine milling around the bezel, lots of grip with gloves on, some can be a bit slippery if you’ve got wet fingers; my SPORK isn’t quite as grippy as I’d like sometimes.
Not that I use it that often.

What a flurry of purchasing, I salute you! Enjoy your SMPs!

They’re going to be a bit of a thinning out of the collection when I get home, but this was a rare occasion of right place, right time and a watch that fits and feels perfectly. I will were this more and with less fear than the Superocean Heritage as well, and am very please to own a co ax movement!

The Promaster is Jnr’s my first proper watch.

@Kryton57 that’s a lovely looking watch, cracking deal too, enjoy and good to see you’ve finally got there !

Do we close the thread now ?

Do we close the thread now

😂

Lovely watch kryton, and from what you’ve posted on this thread i think its the perfect watch for you.

gaidong
Free Member
Does it get better than this?

Lovely watch.

@Kryton57 Excellent choice, and welcome to the SMP club

Wristshotception post snorkeling.

Lovely watch kryton, and from what you’ve posted on this thread i think its the perfect watch for you.

Thank you all.  And I think you are right.  I’ve woken up having sleep with the Omega 😂 and you’re right it is the perfect non fussy, not overbearing highly engineered and well respected piece that I can easily live with daily.  As I intimated, the stars aligned.  I was standing with the AD with (another) Superocean on my wrist and he said “have you considered Omega?”  I replied with “Kinda, I saw one yesterday with a white dial on black rubber (Kato’s) which looked stunning”.  He stepped to one side and said “you mean like this one…?”   The rest you know, it was fate lol.

No we can’t possibly close this thread, it’s been a source of constant info, wonder, experience and learning for me and many others and it continues to be so – long may it continue!

For me, I’ll be thinning to defer to high end / collector now, with 6 watches remaining only (SMP, Aquaracer Chrono Vajoux, CW Compressor, Samurai, Arnie, GW6900). I have an aspiration to achieve a black/white Navitimer on retirement, but before then I want to learn more and find an old, historic piece in a “bin” that can be kept/revived for collectibility – kinda keeping some history alive sort of thing to pay my dues.  I’ve much to learn before I find the “right” battered vintage watch that deserves longevity.

Anyone got a G-Shock GBD-200?  I’m tempted to get one in the dayglo yellow/lime colour

Continuing the love and respect for all you Omega/SMP owners out there.
Trying arty/action shots like Gaidong and Kryton. Bonus points for a bike in the background

Anyone got a G-Shock GBD-200?

Yes, it’s great for telling the time and being robust, but all the connected/tracking functions and the associated app are gash. I’d get this one instead.  Or I’ll sell you mine for a good price, and I’ll have one of them instead. Mine is the blue one.

@CountZero, that Navygraf is on my shortlist of my retirement watch gift to myself next year. I’ve not seen it in the flesh but I’m really taken with it.

Nice watch Kryton – really lovely

@SSS – you’ve captured the theme well, just the right amount of out of focus.

Do we close the thread now ?

Depends. What’s this AD’s returns policy?

What’s this AD’s returns policy?

Too late, I got it wet:

One day you’ll get a shot in focus 😉

Not on this thread 🤣

You wont believe how many pictures it took to get the appropriate level of bluriness.

As I don’t have my readers with me at the pool, it’s kinda hard to judge to be fair. First world problems!

Is there any point in having a posh watch if you can’t see it? 😉

One day you’ll get a shot in focus

That’s a shocker even by Krypton’s standards. Full daylight, autofocus – you only have to hold the phone fairly still and the right distance away FFS.

Just imagining 20 blokes around a pool in Greece taking photos of their watches.

New strap for my old watch as I decided I no longer like the velcro Animal straps.

One of the original out of focus watch pictures. Josef Koudelka

Just imagining 20 blokes around a pool in Greece taking photos of their watches

C’mon, “look at my expensive watch, and by the way I’m somewhere nice” is 50% of the raison d’être of this whole thread!