Wrist Check - 2018

[FN2TypeR]

Purchased yesterday.

[anonymous-user]

FN2TypeR said:

Purchased yesterday.

That looks great.

[FN2TypeR]

El stovey said:

That looks great.

Cheers!

My first foray in to any sort of watch ownership! I met a few friends for a beer afterwards and that turned in to a massive bender. I ended up sleeping on a sofa last night so I haven't been home yet, nor have I taken it off.

[anonymous-user]

At 36mm I think many would think it's too small.
After a few minutes to get used to it - I like it.

[Ligne]

Seventy said:

Been wearing this for a while now.
I need to find a decent strap for it - any ideas?

I’ve just serviced a similar Omega (same 751 movement I believe) for a customer and swapped the bracelet for a brown leather strap. Thought it was a vast improvement to be honest.

[Justayellowbadge]

desolate said:

At 36mm I think many would think it's too small.
After a few minutes to get used to it - I like it.

Lovely thing.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Justayellowbadge said:

desolate said:

At 36mm I think many would think it's too small.
After a few minutes to get used to it - I like it.

Lovely thing.

Aye, seen the Hodinkee vid that features the magician with one? It was worn by Tom Cruise's character in Vanilla Sky, loads of small things in that film and I was always interested into why he wore that watch at that point in the film.
https://youtu.be/83gOJCRdcgU
Great piece

[Seventy]

Ligne said:

I’ve just serviced a similar Omega (same 751 movement I believe) for a customer and swapped the bracelet for a brown leather strap. Thought it was a vast improvement to be honest.

I quite like that and it fits to the lugs perfectly, I wanted a more padded one - what is it?
I’m not sure of the movement in mine, how do I ascertain it?
Many thanks.

Edited by Seventy on Sunday 9th September 19:31

[Ligne]

Seventy said:

I quite like that and it fits to the lugs perfectly, I wanted a more padded one - what is it?
I’m not sure of the movement in mine, how do I ascertain it?
Many thanks.

Edited by Seventy on Sunday 9th September 19:31

I'm sure it's the same chronometer spec movement used in both. You'd know by opening the back and the caliber will be marked. Fairly high quality and pretty nice to work on.

From memory that leather strap is 19mm wide at the lugs. Depending whether you have an Omega buckle you want to fit, you'll have to measure that for another dimension, otherwise 19/16 will be good.

Hope that helps.

[Seventy]

That’s great - thanks very much.
It was my fathers watch that his father gave him in the sixties. I was always told that it had an unusual movement in it.
I have an Omega Seamaster Emirates cup as well but I find myself wearing this with increasing regularity. I guess I must be looking back.

[dxbtiger]

Changed the PAM to a leather strap from

https://www.martuleather.com/

[AMG Merc]

FN2TypeR said:

Purchased yesterday.

A LH Pelagos worn on the wrong wrist?

[wisbech]

desolate said:

At 36mm I think many would think it's too small.
After a few minutes to get used to it - I like it.

Ooh, genuinely a grail watch for me. The MkXII is just so right.

[Zoon]

AMG Merc said:

A LH Pelagos worn on the wrong wrist?

Stops the crown digging into the back of your wrist.

[So]

Zoon said:

AMG Merc said:

A LH Pelagos worn on the wrong wrist?

Stops the crown digging into the back of your wrist.

A good idea really.

[emicen]

[FN2TypeR]

AMG Merc said:

A LH Pelagos worn on the wrong wrist?

I think that they call it an LHD, for what it's worth.

It suits my purposes because I'm not used to wearing a watch and the crown being on the left side of the watch stops it from irritating the back of my hand/wrist - I tried a few different watches on along side it and found it to be the most comfortable of them, the placement of the crown being "wrong" for me doesn't concern me one iota. If it irritated me I'd end up not wearing it, that's an expensive paper weight!

Edited by FN2TypeR on Monday 10th September 18:52

[ZesPak]

Posted this in the Seiko thread but forgot to post it here as traffic started moving.

[don logan]

FN2TypeR said:

Purchased yesterday.

I bought the normal before they were in shop windows in the UK (but you could special order one through Rolex dealers even though most didn’t realise you could at the time) I bought mine in France and the whole thing was incredbly exciting, nobody really had one in 2013 in the UK and I was blown away by the quality for the money, I paid £2.4k new (euro helped at the time)

Anyway, yours is better looking than mine! The markers and hands aren’t fake old looking, they just aren’t bright white and I like the red date too!

[phil1967]