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Pistol Pete
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Your 'customized' comment highlights something about Omega

Omega have no problems whatsoever in combining diverse stylistic elements drawn together from various watches from various eras. The remarkable thing is that Omega invariably succeed. Omega has a house style unique to itself. This is a strength for Omega because the individual elements are so strong in themselves and Omega's approach to the problem of combining them is  thoughtful, balanced, harmonious and ever tasteful. I really admire Omega in that it fully understands the design problems that are inherent in this approach. This is very well illustrated in the case of my wife's brickwork DeVille. It has a 60 yr old constellation bracelet combined with the central tourbillon case. Yet it all comes together beautifully. Graham, G99,  in one of his better moods, illustrated exactly the same thing with respect to the aqua terra GMT, where he eruditely and lucidly explained the various stylistic elements from the history of Omega that formed the basis of the watch.

There is actually a deep philosophical explanation as to why Omega is so successful with this approach while other manufacturers are not and would not be. Omega avoids what's known as the aggregate fallacy. The issue is somewhat complicated and needs lots of examples to make clear but I fear it have a soporific effect if I started to explain it. I think the english philosopher Roger Scrutton was the one who first coined this phrase and illustrated the idea. I'd heartily recommend you guys to go out and read the man's writings and deepen your conceptions and broaden your thinking. Lol, Scrutton even says American cooking is filled with the aggregate fallacy. Very droll!

Two more things I want to add about the watch. One, it uses the cal 2500. Secondly Omega, in order to maintain the simple elegance of the dial, rightly omitted the minute markers. However, this makes it a little more difficult to set the time precisely. You can't use the 12, 3, 6 and 9 postions with any precision so I use the middle of one of the diamond markers to set the time accurately.  This has the minor inconvenience of needing to wait several minutes in order to set the time correctly. If I miss it, I have to wait another 5 minutes to accurately set the time. The desired effect is shown in the first picture where the minute hand is squarely in the middle of the diamond as the seconds hand hits the 60 second mark.

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