These new prospects are most encouraging.
Oh yes. 2 fantastic new iterations.
Lovely
Dave
These new prospects are most encouraging.
I really like the vintage lume version, but after seeing this latest render, all the elements in the dial looks so well balanced. It just looks right. Good job!
As a few others have said, maybe a more 'elegant' font for the numbers might be worth considering.
Will order for sure! :)
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l leave this thread for a couple of weeks and now come back to this! Take my money!
My only wish with the above is for the Smiths logo to be more like the original big boobs rather than this version which looks more like pecs. I mean who doesn't like boobs?
Would still also like the option of the 29a exactly as it was though, can't believe I got complacent thinking it would still be on sale when I was ready.
LOL!
Same here, had to look for a bit, but now I can't "unsee" it!
How do people notice these things? :)
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
The hands on the Omega look to have a flatter, simpler finish, without the pronounced spine or vein running down the middle of the rendering. I think on this sort of design the simpler look would be better.
And I still love to have some sort of lume to enable me to read the time at night, whether a lumed dial or blue lume paint on the hands....
The font on the old Omega looks fantastic!
Tomas
The latest design looks fantastic Eddie.
I like it but can't help thinking that that the hands would look better lummed with a gloss brown metal edge.
n2
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
"You gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em".
Would the prs53 font be in keeping with the overall design?
I'd like no lume on the dial or hands :)
The new Smiths Air Ministry drawing looks perfect! :-)
I agree that it would be interesting to find uniform-line weight sans serif font with "open" 6 and 9, but none showed up when I took a spin around the internet. But maybe the design can be made by printer on the watch face?
Gert
^^^ But nobody knows which font this is. Zeno made the watch and they don't know, they left it up to the dial manufacturer who is no longer in business.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I have been doing a lot of searching and I can't find anything resembling the font... I actually wonder if it was drawn from reference books?
(I worked with people who drew and designed fonts at the start of my career and its an amazing art!)
Swiss dial maker, open 6 and 9, did they once do work for 'another brand'?
Ah, I didn't realise there was a mystery. I have posted on a font forum to see if they can track down the font or one that is very similar. https://typography.guru/forums/topic...-open-6-and-9/
This is in Zeno's current collection. Did the dial manufacturer go out of business after the watch was introduced, or have Zeno been able to identify the font?
Edit: Or third option (only just added because I know nothing about these things), have they simply been able to shamelessly slap their logo onto the dial they had made for Mr Platts?
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The Zeno watches look alright apart from the vile logo! Shame.
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This could be a lovely thing - and if pretty close to the originals, a near-essential thing.
With the latter in mind, I’d keep the overall appearance but drop the lume and not have a pheon. The originals (and the Smiths prototype) didn’t have the pheon and its absence is arguably a key distinguishing feature. I might also make the Smiths logo very slightly smaller. The case size will hopefully be ‘modest’.
But - very promising, long-awaited by many, and a project to follow. Thank you, Mr Platts.
This will be stunning if it doesn't have the boobs. It simply can't have the boobs.
I can understand the polar feelings about the Smiths crown logo; and sure enough in any enlarged images you can interpret the boobs,pecks or duck. However i can assure anyone concerned that i wear my 37mm Smiths PRS-36 every day and all i "see" is a crown design on the dial. I actually like the style of the older Smiths crown used on the Smiths Imperial too
Regardless of where my watch interests take me, from G Shock to Rolex, I always seem to come back to the 29a.
I bought this one new in 2015 and since then its been off on its holidays a few times care of three forum members, though it always seems to find its way back to me one way of another so perhaps I should just hang on to it now.
Im wearing it today
Last edited by Velorum; 9th June 2018 at 09:24.
If I had to choose one, I would go with the creamy white dial and blued hands. I also like the vintage Smiths logo. I am ready to purchase, as soon as Eddie starts accepting orders 🙂 👍
Last edited by alantingle; 8th June 2018 at 17:59.
Looking forward to see the finished products... Only wish is that this is as affordable as previous editions.
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Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask, but Search didn't come up with anything relevant....
Will there be re-issues of the 29b?
Thanks!
This looks to be a very nice watch.
I guess I was hoping for some Lume on the hands but get the fact the original versions did not have it, nor probably need it if there is any ambient light about. I just like to know the time if I wake in the night! I suppose that is what my 29b is for though...superb watch, hence my watching this thread with a lot of interest.
PS I always wanted a 36mm marine/deck watch....
Oh my, I'm another one that needs both variants.
Tomas
Same here. That’s going to be another dent in the savings pot when they arrive! It’s a tough business this watch collecting...
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