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Provocative Posting - Trade a 45 mm PO for GO SE?
Jul 16 2008,08:12 AM

I'm posting this on the Omega site in the sincere (and friendly) hope that I get as biased an audience of readers (pro-Omega, that is....) to read and respond (LOL).

I have owned Omegas for years and currently own a 45 mm PO Coaxial Chronometer (latest iteration movement) with solid steel bracelet.  I love it, etc., etc.  No need for me to ask myself which side I fall on in terms of the PO-SD divide....I also love Glashutte Original and own (and have owned) several of their models.

So here's my question:  Putting money aside, and knowing that this is to fill the "sport watch" niche, how do you feel about my trading-in the PO for a Glashutte Original Sport Original Panoramadatum (ref number 39-42-43-03-14)?

Thanks.....give me your thoughts as much as possible.

DB

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I'd go on the GO SE, db darien
Jul 16 2008,11:51 AM

As the GO SE looks more refined, IMO, woth its beautiful bezel...

But this is difficult to answer, as each of us has his own sensibility in brands, tastes, colors, women , watches...LOLOL

I feel more secure with the GO choice, but this may result of my ignorance of the Omega Watches, as my knowledge is summed with the only SM 300 Vintage, and a bloody Pilot watch from 1938 that I hunt...

That's the only thing I can tell you, and I'm sorry to not elaborate more my answer and position here...

Best.

Nicolas

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While the PO is a great watch ...
Jul 17 2008,09:17 AM

Personally, I certainly prefer the GO in this case

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Okay...Now Let's Inject the "cost" element into the equation....
Jul 17 2008,10:28 AM

Do you feel the same way?

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same dilemma here
Jul 17 2008,18:54 PM

I'm trying to make a similar choice:  new PO 42 mm vs. new GO SE -- I don't have any dive watches and am looking for my first.  Your PO 45 is, I think, somewhat larger than the SE, which is advertised as 42 mm. 

Does anyone here have a wrist shot of the LE?  I've always wondered how one would look on my (thin) wrist, and there aren't any GO ADs within 200 miles of me to enable me to try one on myself before my next trip to the big city (NY; I live in Washington DC, where no one seems to care about watches).  Thx.

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If you've got the money to burn...
Jul 17 2008,19:25 PM

The GO looks like fun to wear for a while. Would it be a keeper, though?
Hard to say.
The PO is a classic bulletproof dive watch and an outstanding value.
The GO is roughly 3 times the cost!
I've been eying a GO as perhaps my next watch, but I'd never sell my PO for one.
The GO also looks too much like a PO, though I do like the aesthetics.

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TWO diferent worlds
Jul 18 2008,21:30 PM

the PO is a real knockaround true everyday watch that you can really 'live in', as nice as it is.

The GO SE is a fancy watch, extremely bulky and heavy and THICK, more on the art-side than the sport side, and a tank of a watch--amazing detail and quality through and through, but not a real everyday, wear it and wear it watch--it's a watch that ends up being part of a rotation of watches...

I separate my watches into the 'truly for wearing' watches and the 'pure head trip' watches and I put the GO into the head trip category.

BUT! I have not one negative word against the GO. I'd much rather own it than the PO. But I'd rather own the PO if I wanted an everyday wearing watch. The GO is way to bulky and tank-like to live in, IMHO.

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Jul 19 2008,07:46 AM

I won't disagree with your characterization of the GO SE as "art" and how you treat it.

But I've owned and worn both watches, for an extended period of time.  I can tell you, unequivocally, that the PO outweighs the GO and, due to its 45 mm case, is bigger.  So your implication that the GE SE has an element of impracticality due to its size and/or weight, versus the more "practical" PO, is simply not the case.  I've owned and lived with both for an extended perod of time and I know.

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Do you still own them both?
Jul 19 2008,10:57 AM

Curious because you use the past tense. How much rotation did they get?
I've found myself attracted to a watch, spent the money, and then discovered that I liked the idea of owning it more than wearing it.

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How Long
Jul 19 2008,12:26 PM

I've continuously owned Omega Seamasters for 15 years and have had the current PO for over a year.  I've owned Glashuttes for the past two years and owned the SE for about six months.  I wore both continuously.  I traded-in the SE to get my current G.O. Navigator.  I felt concluded that at that price level, the Navigator was a more desirable watch for me because the PO filled the niche of a daily wearer with metal bracelet so admirably.  Since then, I've gotten that itch again (and I like to tweak my line-up once a year).  So I miss the SE and am reconsidering.   Another live option is to keep the PO and get a Rolex Milgauss. This message has been edited by db darien on 2008-07-19 12:51:13

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Thanks for that post!
Jul 21 2008,18:42 PM

So many variables in the equation that being able to see your thought process really clarifies things.

I, too have had Seamasters for about the same time, but only started buying newer watches relatively recently.
After buying a Speedmaster a couple-three years back, the PO was the next new Omega. Have also had it now for about a year.

The heaviest watch I have ever owned, and though it gets a lot of wrist time, I don't know if I'd get an additional heavy large diver (or swap it out for another).
Price was good enough so that I never feel the need to baby it.

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I stand corrected!
Jul 19 2008,14:55 PM

Eh, what do I know???
But it was my personal experience that the GO was too bulky for my personal comfort, while the PO was easier to wear, maybe a balance of weight thing?

Or just my bone-structure, who knows.

But I'm out of my depth (snort, chuckle) here.

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