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AndrewD
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Continuous seconds sub-dial

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the wonderful photos.

I agree with you that there is much to like about this Seamaster GMT. In fact your original post sparked enough interest for me to take a good look at one at the Omega Boutique.

The only issue I had with the design related to the continuous seconds sub-dial at 9 o'clock. While it's main function, particularly on a watch equipped with a chronograph, might be to indicate that your watch is wound and ticking, I would have preferred it to have the seconds marked, rather than 5 second intervals. It would have matched with the adjacent sub-dial at 3 o'clock as well.

It was probably a conscious design decision on the part of Omega, and it's an interesting one, but I find that I use the seconds hand to time short intervals, even on my chronos.

Otherwise the depth in the dial, which you capture well, is great, as is the depth in the movement. I wish Omega had done a little more with the automatic rotor, but that's a minor point. A great watch from Omega.

Andrew