I’ve seen a lot of stories like this concerning Omega’s official service centre; beyond the obvious laziness/incompetence I’ve no idea what the problem is.
New toy day today - Formex Essence Leggera ‘Space Rock’ - I’ve sold a few watches recently, so the guilt is manageable…
I’ve wanted a meteorite dialled watch for a long time - seems I’ll never travel the Universe, so the next best thing is a chunk of the Universe travelling to me, in this case northern Sweden’s ‘Muonionalusta’ meteorite with its characteristic Widmanstätten crystal-structure - at 4.5 billion years old it dates from the time of the Solar System’s formation and is likely part of the iron core of a planetoid (Pluto-sized or smaller) which exploded ~400 million years ago and showered Scandinavia with large chunks of red-hot iron!
I like Formex’ watches - they do things differently, yet cleverly: neat adjustable deployants, watches with shock-absorbing suspension-systems for the whole movement/dial assembly, unusual materials, unique designs, &c.
And - having previously owned a cheapy - I like the lightness and strength of carbon cases. This example goes a step further by incorporating a complete scratch-proof ceramic bezel, plus sapphire crystal and a COSC-certified movement (Sellita SW200) - itself also behind sapphire and bearing significant decoration, (perlage , blued screws, &c).
And, owning as I do both a modern Planet Ocean and a super-shiny, ultra-dark blue SLA043, I rrrreeeeeeeeeaaaalllllyyyy needed another watch that’s completely impossible to get a decent photograph of…
Anyway, this finally arrived today - I missed the first-gen 43mm models from ~3 years ago, but these 41mm are even better, easier to wear, and (surprisingly) £300 cheaper! It took approximately 24 hours to arrive after despatch from Geneva!
It’s a lovely thing to wear, even on a NATO - the NATO is a Geckota supplied one, and truly impressive quality, albeit I now realise even the best of them are not for me and I shouldn’t have cheaped-out and ordered leather or rubber instead. Mea culpa .
Demerits are small - the meteorite is much shinier and more silvery than I expected, yielding reduced contrast between itself, the hands, and the indices - not ideal when your eyes are going, but not hopeless, and worth it.
The holes in the lugs for the spring bars are set very close to the case - it’s supplied with curved spring bars, which are a faff to use and are going to make it impossible to experiment with non-fabric straps; I do wish they’d added a second set of holes sited to accommodate standard straps. This again is minor, as it’s already on a ‘Marine Nationale’ from The Watch Steward anyway.
So far: infatuated/10
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