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Hi there fellow members. I paid one of the AD's for Omega in my town a visit recently. Looked at some Longines, Certina and some other cheap stuff, just to see what they are like, quite reasonable prices for the automatics from Longines and Certina, but they are nowhere near the build quality and feel of my GEN SOSF. Then I noticed he had the newest range of Planet Ocean with ceramic bezel in the display. Both 42 and 45.5mm chronometre (non-chrono) and the 45.5mm chronograph (new style with only two subdials and date at 6 o-clock). They are just amazing looking watches, but prices have gotten quite high, compared to the recent PO lines (with alu bezel). He picked one out of the display and handed to me (the 42mm) and it just looks and feels superb! The feel and build quality of these models are just fantastic. The combined satin and polished surfaces are just staggering. No pictures can show how good these models really are. Those of you who have held one in your hands, will know what I am talking about. They have changed the dial, bezel (it is now ceramic, matte finish btw, not polished as oppose to the the Subs, GMT-Master II and DeepSea rollies) the caseback (it is now see-through sapphire caseback, in-house movement looks fantastic, btw) and bracelet is far superior to the older models. New bracelet is with screwed links and looks more refined, even it is not very different in overall than the old models bracelets. Even the crystal looks more crisp and clear. Perhaps they have changed to colorless AR, I did not notice any blue or purple hue at all. I asked the AD, but he was not sure about the AR and if they had changed it. Did not even look like he knew that there were different grades (and colors) of AR, and he looked quite surprised when I asked about such things as beatrate, in-house movements and more. Guess it is not common to have people like us rep-geeks, who probably now more about the GENS than the common GEN owner or buyer normally do, visit the AD stores. I guess us rep-geeks are much more aware of the details about different models, than most common GEN buyers. Since we allways try to identify the flaws of the reps, we must pay much attention to all details about the GENS, and such, we tend to learn more about all aspects of the GENS ranges. Prices for the new lines of PO starts at NOK 38.000,- (about 6400 USD) for the non-chronos, and the chrono I think is close to around 50.000NOK (about 8500 USD). The AD guy had a 45.5 chrono on his wrist, I complimented him for it, but said it is probably the watch of a lifetime for me. He said, it should not be, and that I ought to get me one some day Since I recently spend a good portion of money (3700USD) on my GEN SOSF (Breitling SuperOcean Steelfish), I am nowhere near beeing able to afford a GEN PO 2011 at this moment, but if I had, I would probalby pick up both the 42mm, 45.5mm non-chronos, as well as the 45.5 chrono! In the meantime, when do we see decent reps of these, at least the non-chronos? I have seen something looking like an attempt over at Puretime, but they have a polished ceramic bezel,the gen is matte! I reckon the chrono will be hard to rep, since it has the two subdial set-up with both ellapsed hours and minutes on the 3 o'clock subdial (with two subdial hands on the hours/min subdial), and seconds at 9 o'clock and date at 6.