Neville Southall
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Still my favorite Rolex of all time.
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Love the OG Planet Ocean. I've toyed with the idea of getting the POLMLE or the orange 2500 PO for awhile now. The POLMLE have been hovering around $9k-$10k for the past few years but seems like they're starting to come back down to around $8k range.
Omega would have a huge hit on its hands if it could figure out a way to issue a new PO with the 2500's dimensions. 44 mm case with 16 mm height is a chunk of steel.Love the OG Planet Ocean. I've toyed with the idea of getting the POLMLE or the orange 2500 PO for awhile now. The POLMLE have been hovering around $9k-$10k for the past few years but seems like they're starting to come back down to around $8k range.
Each generation of the PO has gotten worse in terms of size. The current gen of 39.5 with 14.5 height and 43.5 with 15.5mm height are terrible.Omega would have a huge hit on its hands if it could figure out a way to issue a new PO with the 2500's dimensions. 44 mm case with 16 mm height is a chunk of steel.
I got this via proxy from Japan for a great price. There are some LE's listed on Rakuten for ≈$6,6k with the weak yen. Every Wednesday-Thursday, the proxy service OneMap runs a 7% or 10% discount for items on Rakuten.Love the OG Planet Ocean. I've toyed with the idea of getting the POLMLE or the orange 2500 PO for awhile now. The POLMLE have been hovering around $9k-$10k for the past few years but seems like they're starting to come back down to around $8k range.
Each generation of the PO has gotten worse in terms of size. The current gen of 39.5 with 14.5 height and 43.5 with 15.5mm height are terrible.
The 39.5 thickness is fine with me IMO. It's 14.1, a hair thinner than this 2500, and wears just fine on my wrist. Thinner than a Pelagos.Each generation of the PO has gotten worse in terms of size. The current gen of 39.5 with 14.5 height and 43.5 with 15.5mm height are terrible.
I've been thinking about the new LV Tambour, and watched the painful Wei Koh PR video that @Newcomer linked (he looks like a midlife crisis chrome hearts stan...gross), but dang, I can't get the watch out of my mind.
It's honestly the platonic ideal for a subseconds sector dial for me. Everything is beautifully symetrical, nothing is cut off, everything feels extremely considered. All of the gripes I have about most watches are solved here in a really elegant way.
All of the numerals and indices are intact and the same size, and have this way of leading the eye from one dial subsection into the next. The hand length is perfectly in like with the dial subsections.
The bezel around the inner subsections is a consistent width, and perfectly cuts the subdial in half, a perfect proportion. In fact, it seems like the inner bezel is the same width as the outline on the numerals! The ikepod-style integrated case is also a winner, and truly awesome at just a hair over 8mm.
This could be my fav watch, aethetically, of 2023 to date.
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Agreed. It's not the overall thickness that's the problem. It's the thickness compared to the overal size of the watch. 14mm thick for a 39.5mm watch with an actual dial size closer to 38mm makes the proportions all off.The 39.5 thickness is fine with me IMO. It's 14.1, a hair thinner than this 2500, and wears just fine on my wrist. Thinner than a Pelagos.
I just don't like it because the proportions feel off to me all around. The handset feels a tad too large; the numerals are ugly; the lugs are too stubby.
This is my daily wearer. Have it on the EOM rubber right now, though I find the various aftermarket rubber straps look and wear more comfortable.
center links need some work.Still my favorite Rolex of all time.
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Sweet! My plan is to get a shark mesh and a Zealande rubber for this. Maybe a sailcloth a la Artem but that would probably be redundant.This is my daily wearer. Have it on the EOM rubber right now, though I find the various aftermarket rubber straps look and wear more comfortable.