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Marcus Hanke
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The dial's neclassicism follows the current fashion ....

... by adding always more design elements, more frames, more stripes, more facets, more geometric shapes, more surface treatments, following the ornamental dogma of "more is better". This  was the case already with the De Ville "Hour Vision", the new AquaTerra, completely leaving the predecessor's very clean and sober dial layout, and now the Broad Arrow, that, too, is a rather radical departure from its predecessor's absence of dial features.



Without doubt, these designs are widely intriguing at first sight, the eye gets a lot to see. However, the danger is that one becomes oversaturized by features, growing weary of it over time. This is certinly not an economic problem for the manufacturer, and also not for people who are used to swap their watches after a short time. However, for those who tend to purchase a fine watch with the firm intention to own it for a long time, like myself, these recent designs are rarely hot contenders for the numero uno on our lists.

Interestingly, Omega is aware of these people as well, otherwise the new and pure De Ville, completely different from the busy "Hour Vision", could not be explained:





Regards,
Marcus