I think I definitely will mate, when I get the extra couple of links taken out of it (have a skinny-ass 6.5" wrist, pretty much have to take 4-5 links out of the band). Hopefully I can take a few decent snaps with the iphone camera...
Here's one of the QC pics front on:
Just a couple of quick observations about it:
- Keeping time alright so far, left it overnight and lost about 5 seconds, I knew the QC claims were a bit too generous (+1, +3, -1, -6 s/day) but it might settle down after a while
- Bezel is that tiny, tiny bit off centre, or it might even be well aligned, I might be looking at it the wrong way and adding a bit of parallax error
- Has a nice heft to it, the Gen is meant to be about 190 g, this feels like it's easily that, will have to get it on the scales at some point. Still, feels nice and solid
- Links are nice, probably not as smooth as the Gen, but when the whole watch costs 1/4 of what an Omega band is... something has to give
- Clasp is really nice feeling, doesn't stick anywhere, deployable clasp is alright too. The steel looks and feels pretty good too, I know this is probably 316 while the Gen is 440, been trying to look up the differences, which I'm guessing is most likely down to chemistry and the resulting properties of that.
- As far as I can tell, the back is decent, maybe the seamonster (which I found out just then is the hippocampus, thought that was the part of the brain that dealt with memory... learn something every day) isn't as pronounced? Either way, the engraving is really nice, I haven't seen a Gen, but looking at pictures on the Omega site were pretty close
- Maaaaaybe the only fault I can see (though I expect others could pick it apart in seconds) is the slight happy feet on the Omega logo on the dial, but it's one of those things you don't notice unless you're looking really closely at it
All in all, really happy with it, some great communication from Josh, and pretty quick posting, after Chinese New Year, of course, haha!