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similar situation here....the thing that bugs me the most is the AR coating, and the lack of engraving on the clasp.

Would a gen clasp work? I thought the gen uses pins, how would you install it?

wow that is some very detailed work there.....good job.

yeah Richard I guess you make some good points, but isn't AR coating cheap? Especially for a surface area of this size. I guess it's just one of those business things where the added cost of AR might not get you a lot more money for the product, which is unfortunate.

Is there any way to remove the crystal and send it out for AR coating, and then reinstall (as opposed to trying to fit a gen crystal)?

And yeah the GMT is very nice, except for the bezel....but that's one of those things that doesn't bother me (but it seems to bother a lot of people lol).

edit: except for the bezel, and obviously this crystal issue

very well, to be fair, here is a shot at the limit at which distortion occurs. Moving in the vertical plane, I'd say the distortion occurs at about the same point on the other side as well.

As for being "not noticable", this effect is very obvious for a 180 degree viewing angle in any direction as Nanuq pointed out with his photo of the PO on its side. If you rest your hands with your watch face pointing up, this is noticeable to observers (admittedly only from a rather close range). It's also noticable to the wearer if you like to rest your hand in its side.

The point is not how noticable this effect is, suffice it to say that it bothers me and I'm looking for a fix to this problem short of buying a new watch. Thanks for the replies so far guys.

Here's some shots of my GMT SMP for reference....The dome and its distortion effect is a dead giveaway...I would be pretty upset if the genuine looked like this from an angle.

I'm not sure that the gen's aren't domed, but they certainly don't have the viewing angle issue, and they don't "stick out" as much in a side profile....example:

http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=tre...o=1882470&rid=0

looking at the side shots you can see that it's maybe a very very slight dome, but certainly doesn't stick up like the SMP replicas.

Just wondering, is a flat crystal that much more expensive? For example, a genuine Omega SMP GMT has a flat crystal, whereas the replica has a dome which affects certain viewing angles. Just wondering if there is a good reason for using the dome over the flat crystal.

*also posted on TRC

meh it's not that surprising I guess, I had problems with mine as well....for the first two minutes.