New Release - Speedy Team Alinghi

[mmaggi]

Here's a new Speedy. Along the lines of the Apollo 8.

https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/w...31192443001002

[kutime]

This one is more expensive and less attractive compared to the Apollo 8...


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[Henrimontgomery]

Weird. The team hasn’t been interesting for a while now. Back then in Geneva people would wear Alinghi hear and go to the same gym in hopes of meeting then.

Today, we’ll when I see a hat or bag with the logo, I just think “oh yeah that old trend from a while ago”.

[stevedssd]

Originally Posted by kutime

This one is more expensive and less attractive compared to the Apollo 8...


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Yes a lot more expensive, I'd much rather have the Apollo 8 ........

[CKizzy]

44+mm...

[tmilnthorp]

I have had water ingress on a Chrono before from wet pushers (not submerged). Not sure why they wouldn't go with say a 300M Chrono that doesn't have that problem. I like the design, but feel it's a fail functionally.

[jbsmith]

Originally Posted by stevedssd

Yes a lot more expensive, I'd much rather have the Apollo 8 ........

Agree and why would water sports use the speedy?

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[Jster]

Two of the favorite watches that I own are the Omega Speedmaster (Moon Watch) and the SMP 2254.50. So yeah, I like Omega. But damn, they tend to put out a lot of crap like this.

[David5807]

Originally Posted by CKizzy

44+mm...

Yeah, Omega kind of went nuts here with the size. Definitely made this piece a no go for me.

[wjrw592]

Wow, no thanks as its a monster and is way out on the limb as a fad with Team A . . .

[usmc_k9_vet]

The size doesn’t bother me. I’ve tried on the 44.25mm Speedmaster models and they look a lot smaller than that in diameter. My problem is that a very tiny niche of people will even consider and like this watch. I wish they would have brought out something to excite tens or hundreds of thousands of people, not like.. 10 people.


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[Stevec14]

I’ve had the Apollo 8 and enjoyed it, albeit it was a touch large for me in the long term. This, I don’t get. A sailing watch with 50m WR. Just seems to me they were looking for a reason to use some excess cases or something.

I’d have the Apollo over this any day. This just has a whiff of Tudor fastrider to my eyes and to push up to £8k is bonkers in my view.

[jbsmith]

Originally Posted by usmc_k9_vet

The size doesn’t bother me. I’ve tried on the 44.25mm Speedmaster models and they look a lot smaller than that in diameter. My problem is that a very tiny niche of people will even consider and like this watch. I wish they would have brought out something to excite tens or hundreds of thousands of people, not like.. 10 people.


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Agree. 44.25mm is not as big as it sounds on these watches. I love my Apollo 8 on my 7 inch wrist...plenty of wrist on either side of lug ends, which is one of my rules for sizing. I prefer 44 over 42 in the speedy.

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[samson66]

The 44.25mm size is the same size as all the coaxial speedmasters. This is nothing new and as others have stated they wear much more like a 42-43 mm watch since their stated diameter includes the round of the case as well as crown guards. The dial and bezel only measure ~41.5mm across.

[Stevec14]

Originally Posted by samson66

The 44.25mm size is the same size as all the coaxial speedmasters. This is nothing new and as others have stated they wear much more like a 42-43 mm watch since their stated diameter includes the round of the case as well as crown guards. The dial and bezel only measure ~41.5mm across.

I’ve never felt the diameter of the watch really impacts how these wears. In the case of the coaxial speedies they wear quite small lug to lug which helps those with smaller wrists pull them off IMO.

[samson66]

Originally Posted by Stevec14

I’ve never felt the diameter of the watch really impacts how these wears. In the case of the coaxial speedies they wear quite small lug to lug which helps those with smaller wrists pull them off IMO.

Good point. In addition to the <50 mm lug-to-lug distance, the end links pivot straight down making it wear just fine on smaller wrists. My SD43 has a stiff end link which takes the overall height to the ~52 mm range.

[Stevec14]

Originally Posted by samson66

Good point. In addition to the <50 mm lug-to-lug distance, the end links pivot straight down making it wear just fine on smaller wrists. My SD43 has a stiff end link which takes the overall height to the ~52 mm range.

Exactly that - the pivoted end links make it wear nicely. Is why I can wear one of these but not a sky dweller despite the sky d being the ‘smaller’ watch

[eskiserkan]

Something unnecessary from Omega yet again...

[EGrunt]

I like the color (red) on the watch but not the emblem for Alinghi on the dial. Interesting that it cost more then the Apollo 8.

[stevedssd]

I agree, I like the red but the cost over an Apollo 8 doesn't make sense......and neither does a watch that is to celebrate a sailing team that has Dark Side of The Moon on the back..........it's not for me

[42itus]

Wouldn't a Seamaster make more sense?