Personally, I am usually not a black or white kinda of person, but will always be prepared to look at the grey side of things, if you get my drift?
But with the dial of a watch, it is much more clean cut, it is either a white, black or in this case the darker dial.
Jim, I understand your reasoning and have in the past followed your exact route, but I seem to have swung back to larger size cased watches.
Though from a practical side, i.e. a slimmer cased watch is less likely to hit something, really has to be taken into consideration.
Nat, thinking back to the 5135, I believe that it was the position of the apertures, that set the precedence for me. And the only reason why I never got one, was purely down to the shape and the size of it. On my wrist the 5135 was way to big!!
Now if I could ever afford, the 5205G's other distant cousin, the 5207P, then I would be made for life. But that would require me to win the lottery.