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Omega Dark Side Of The Moon (DSOTM) - The First in Series ...
Team,
This model of DSOTM was released in 2014, if my memory is working, and continues to be one of the most beautiful from the series.
Picture from this morning:
I had some concerns about the relatively new caliber 9300 but those concerns were incorrect.
The caliber 9300 continues to be the best industrial made chronograph movement ever made (IMHO).
About the ceramic case, is just a wonder. This watch has four years since I got it and still looks like a new one.
Thanks for seeing.
Cheers,
Nilo
Well, depends on the definition of "best"
If accuracy and robustness are the sole criteria, I fully agree with you. Up to now, the cal. 9300 was the most accurate fully mechanical movement (which leaves out Spring Drive) I have ever tested.
If you include the legible presentation of the measured data in the definition, then the cal. 9300 already shows a major flaw by stacking the chronograph's hours and minutes counter, resulting in a barely legible combined indication. I credit to the movement, though, that general watch design can influence that. So the DSOTM is - its overall huge attractivity left aside - by far the worst in this respect, with its tiny counter hands, that are even barely visible above the shining black dial surface. On the other hand, the 1957 series of the Speedmaster has a substantially increased diameter of the subdial and better distinguishable hands. The major problem of this combined counter is that the small subdial is now subdivided into 60 increments (compared to the standard 30) and the minute counter hand does not jump, but advances steadily, as in a modular 2894. Consequently, interpreting the exact amount of time stopped without a loupe is next to impossible. Since there might be a few people adding legibility to the job description of a chronograph, this issue does deduct a few points.
Aesthetic considerations are more or less subjective, so I will not lose words about proportions, bridge design and decorative finish ...
But I plead guilty myself, since I am steadily thinking about acquiring a Grey Side of the Moon ....
Marcus
If you include the legible presentation of the measured data in the definition, then the cal. 9300 already shows a major flaw by stacking the chronograph's hours and minutes counter, resulting in a barely legible combined indication. I credit to the movement, though, that general watch design can influence that. So the DSOTM is - its overall huge attractivity left aside - by far the worst in this respect, with its tiny counter hands, that are even barely visible above the shining black dial surface. On the other hand, the 1957 series of the Speedmaster has a substantially increased diameter of the subdial and better distinguishable hands. The major problem of this combined counter is that the small subdial is now subdivided into 60 increments (compared to the standard 30) and the minute counter hand does not jump, but advances steadily, as in a modular 2894. Consequently, interpreting the exact amount of time stopped without a loupe is next to impossible. Since there might be a few people adding legibility to the job description of a chronograph, this issue does deduct a few points.
Aesthetic considerations are more or less subjective, so I will not lose words about proportions, bridge design and decorative finish ...
But I plead guilty myself, since I am steadily thinking about acquiring a Grey Side of the Moon ....
Marcus
Best considering the ...
Accuracy and robustness.
About the stacking of the chronograph's hours and minutes counters, I'm with you.
Enjoy your future GSOTM. Is a fantastic piece, bar the grey strap (I deep dislike grey straps).
Cheers,
Nilo
About the stacking of the chronograph's hours and minutes counters, I'm with you.
Enjoy your future GSOTM. Is a fantastic piece, bar the grey strap (I deep dislike grey straps).
Cheers,
Nilo