The TPS group buy had wings on the caseback. I really liked instrument inspired color scheme of the watch face. But wasn't quite different enough from my 3861 though to warrant getting another one.
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I don't mean it's similar to a model the public can buy. It literally is a model the public can buy. https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/...tm_medium=organic&utm_campagne=surfaces&gQT=2
Yeah. I’m aware. I thought you said you didn’t like it because it didn’t come with wings on it. I guess I just don’t have a problem with a watch that’s publicly available. 🤷♂️
The X-33 could be purchased by the public for a little while. They just wouldn't have the caseback engraving. Also, the engravings aren't necessarily wings, but whatever the group buy decided. Ours is our squadron logo. The Airwarriors Gen 3 versions (I think...maybe Gen 2) were wings because it was a common denominator. I'm not sure what the NASA version has, but I'm guessing @Citation3 can answer that.
I agree, there are definitely more handsome faces than the X-33, but the watch is so rare that when someone recognizes it, it's kind of like a brief secret club meeting.
It's not that it's available to the public that bugs me. I think that's indicative of a bigger problem. If all I wanted was a watch with a customized caseback, there are lots of companies willing to do that - without having to talk a bunch of friends into also buying one. My complaint is that this isn't a special pilots' watch like its predecessors. See below.
That's what I mean. The X-33 isn't the best looking watch out there, but like you said, those who know what it is will recognize it as something special. It was built from the ground up as a pilot's watch, and it's unmistakable. That was a follow up to the original 1960s' Flight Master, which also had several pilot-specific complications - GMT hand, 24-hour, etc.
This time, instead of building another special aviation watch they just reskinned a Racing Master and called it a day. I think that it's trying to pay homage to that original Flight Master, which is why they added orange and colored in half of the 9 o'clock complication -which makes a lot more sense for the 24-hour dial of the original - but that's it. They literally added nothing else. What kind of pilot's watch doesn't even have a GMT complication?
Here's the 1960s' Flightmaster.
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