A great thread over at Timezone, lots of great pics of a Railmaster in a wide range of straps, whats your choice?

Playing dress up with the Railmaster: Vote for your favorite

Look at that big boy!

No doubt the new Planet Ocean 45 is a BIG watch, its a heavy watch too. But how heavy is it?

I like things simple so here is the Omega Blogger handy dandy guide to bands, straps and bracelets:

If its a metal bracelet then it must be original Omega.

If its a leather, lizard, alligator etc strap / band then non-original is acceptable as long as the clasp is original Omega.

See, that was simple wasn’t it?

Whilst maybe not the most pleasent man in the world I can’t find a fault with his taste in watches. If you ask me that $10 million figure shows remarkable restraint, I could spend more than that in a weekend on the worlds best watch brand…. without breaking sweat.

In the three years from 1998, Kim used the extra aid merely to indulge himself. The number of US$1,000 [HK$7,800] Omega watches he imported from Switzerland tripled to total US$10 million in 2001.

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Paging James Bond Omega fans…. take a look at this interesting ebay listing, appears to be an ex-shop watch display featuring Omega’s most famous wearer [after Omega Blogger of course].

James Bond Omega Watch Display

At the 1999 Basel Watch and Jewelry Fair, Omega announced a new watch for the DeVille line: a chronometer-rated, limited edition watch. Although based on the Omega caliber 2500, an ETA 2892 derivative, the watch would, remarkably, be supplied with a co-axial escapement and free sprung balance. Not only would this be the first co-axial escapement available in a watch selling for less than US$150,000, the Omega was presented from the beginning as a harbinger of regular, large-scale production of watches beating to this George Daniels’ design. The announcement seemed news of a new era in mechanical watch making.

Great, great article by Walt Odets.

Anybody want to hook me up with a ticket and cover the plane fare? [A little spending money would help too]

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Everybody knows it, the best secret agents wear Omega!

By that time Hendy-Freegard had already ensnared his last victim – American Kimberley Adams, a child psychologist and author, who still has nightmares about her ordeal. The film producer’s daughter met him in August, 2002, at the west London VW dealership.

When he discovered she had a stepfather who had recently won more than $20 million (£11 million) on the lottery, he decided he had finally struck gold, and lost no time regaling her with tales of spy missions and IRA terror cells.

And just to make sure she believed him, he proudly showed off his James Bond-style Omega Seamaster timepiece…

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A subsequent search of his apartment turned up an Omega Constellation ladies watch that had been stolen from the store’s post office.

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actually, i’ve had some upper(ish)-end Seikos in the past (presents)

Now as I pointed out, and not to be snobby about this but…… Japanese for cars, Swiss for watches NOT the other way round.