You have a void under the lugs that creates and makes the watch potentially unbalanced. When you take a 45mm watch on a wrist like mine, it does not embrace the curvature of the wrist. Well, a watch is supposed to wrap around your wrist, not to sit on top of your wrist. I do prefer the 39.5mm Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m because it’s more comfortable, especially when worn on the metallic bracelet. The most surprising is that, in the end, we are talking about the same watch: same overall design, same dial, same bezel, same case, same vocation, same display… Same but better? Maybe not better, but clearly more to my tastes, and here is why. That’s 6mm less, and in the watch world, it’s like going from a Bentley SUV to a Lotus Elise. Well, the comparison was difficult, as moving from a 45.5mm watch to another at 39.5mm. This was definitely worth a try – a try that I extensively had, when Omega showed us the new Deep Black version of the Seamaster Planet Ocean. Indeed, 39.5mm sounds like a nice diameter… for a man. When we received the news prior to Baselworld 2016, we, at the redaction of Monochrome-Watches, immediately thought that this watch was not going to be a watch made for women only. The 39.5mm and the 43.5mm editions of the Omega Planet Ocean 600mīack on the point of interest of this article, the 39.5mm Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m. Just for the story, the Planet Ocean already had a ladies’ version at 37.5mm. But additionally, Omega showed to us a 39.5mm version of the PO 600m, which, after reading at the press release, was intended to be a ladies’ watch – something that most of us, watch journalists and bloggers, immediately denied, to call this watch “ unisex” or even to be the perfect size for a daily use. Because of this vocation, this watch was previously available in 42.5mm and 45.5mm cases, both relatively thick (over 16mm), simply because we are in front of a dive watch, meaning a strong case, with additional rotating bezel. This year, just before Baselworld 2016, Omega announced a new collection for its iconic dive watch, the Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m – a rugged dive watch, with professional specifications, capable of being used and abused by proper divers. And to demonstrate this, let’s look at the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m in its new 39.5mm version. New generations of existing models are going smaller – not hugely, but slowly diameters are stagnating or even decreasing. Or maybe it was…? More and more, we see watches being downsized. It is now common to see a dress watch with a 41mm case and a dive watch with a 44mm diameter. We can’t hide the fact that, since 15 years, watches have drastically increased in terms of dimensions – in thickness for sure, but mainly in diameter.
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