Thanks Daos,
Both the watch and your review were a lot of fun.
I had the pleasure of playing with the Montauk while visiting LA last month and as you rightly say, it is certainly a watch that you notice and have a response to, either positive or negative. You were wearing it the first morning we met and while I won’t necessarily say I saw the watch before I saw you, it certainly catches the eye.
I have always liked Offshore’s from a design point of view, but without wrist implants (or a brain transplant) they are basically too large for me to comfortably wear. Also I am really not sure I could pull it off in a “traditional seersucker suit” and I agree that the watch, particularly in this colour scheme, is better suited to relaxing in shorts and polo shirt. I was, however, looking forward to your shots in the "Lilly Pulitzer dress and the La Perla bikini". You let me down!
The watch itself is weighty and not counter-balanced by the deployant. Wearing the strap snugly makes a difference, but from my wristshot (that's my freckly arm – and Art throwing another shrimp on the barbie) you can see that the lugs overhang my 17cm (6.8 inch) wrist.
Being a nit-picking purist I thought the date display was too deeply buried down a dark hole, but the baton-shaped minute and hour hands were acceptable and consistent with the look and tradition of the watch. The chronograph hands/counters still allow accurate reading of elapsed time. Interested in your comments about the chronograph pushers because I found the start/stop pusher to feel rather ‘dead’ but the reset pusher to be nicely ‘notchy’ and reassuring in its action.
The case work and varying surfaces are a delight, as expected from AP. And you sum up very well the key attributes of a distinctive, beautifully made watch that would catch my eye on someone else’s wrist, but not my own.
Andrew
Here’s the only other photo I have that hasn’t been posted before …