Omega

As an Omega owner, what do you think of this PO? 

You can never be too rich or………too thin. My 2500 is still in the roster because of its case proportions. Having said that I really love the transparent back and all other things being even would go for transparency over size. As far as movement thickness (admittedly a can of worms and let me state for the record I am a huge Rolex fan even though I don’t own any) I would prefer to own a METAS movement over a non METAS movement thickness be damned. As far as the helium escape valve goes… What are we clinging to? I appreciate it as a whimsical doodad but I could just as easily live without it. I am not in line with the suggestion that they should just scrap it all together, but there’s a part of me that wonders should they amalgamate the 300 and the PO into one watch and have done with it? Frankly, they are almost already there. Which leads me to even deeper questions with regard to OMEGA(ohhh god somebody stop me) I feel like there’s a lot of room to revamp constellation globe master et al.

It’s not about owning a concept, it’s about loosing your own identity and copy paste what sells for others.
This from a guy who actually liked Omega before Swatch ruinned it…
Let alone the outsourced parts and the auction fakery.
But everyone’s tolerance level is different.

(I really do) for me… I never felt that OMEGA was chasing Rolex in the sense that yes Rolex has a great deal of provenance with submariner / sea dweller but omega has a lot of provenance with Speedmaster and its movements. It may be said that Rolex is the only true James Bond watch, but it also may be said that Omega is the only true moon watch and makes the best movements in the world, which I absolutely believe. That’s why I believe that Rolex has no ownership over the submariner style dive watch anymore that OMEGA Speedmaster has ownership over the Daytona.. the brands inherently chase each other just like Ferrari and Lamborghini chase each other and that’s the beauty of it… The minute there’s a winner or a better the chase ends, which would be tragic….like F1 … Two teams trying to solve the exact same problem and doing it beautifully both of them.

Rolex has no ownership of anything as you said correctly, furthermore Omega has a way longer and significant history and inventions UNTIL the Swatch group took over ownership and in my opinion stopped the brand from being a leader and turned it to a fashion follower…
The Omega Marin, the true first waterproof watch, the first Tourbillon in a wrist watch, just to name a few all Revolutionary, let alone the chronometer competitions that Omega won, but in recent times…???
When one holds a modern and a vintage Omega in their hand, you can see the difference in the quality between the two, the winner being the vintage, vs. the Rolex where the vintage is relatively speaking a fragile paper compared to the tanks of today.
And THAT hurts…
But I hope one day the wheels will turn and they’ll wake up, so I can be proud of them again…

Not my wrist , borrowed from www 😂 Compelling enough diver for you to get out your wallet Larry? 

. . . on a rubber strap.

There is now a vid circulating of the new PO. Not crazy about it! Waiting until I hear the case thickness spec

But more realistically 14-15 mm. A guy can dream!