My opinion is that this was a minimum effort on the part of Omega. Ok, that's not the problem for me. But it could have been a real crowd-pleaser IMHO if they went the route of the Apollo-Soyuz Speedmaster special edition from the late 1970s. In lieu of the Speedmaster badging on the dial replace it with the French flag. Keep everything else on the dial "sterile". Now that would have driven the Speedy fans nutz.