Quote Originally Posted by Passenger View Post
Like the Brown too but I've become a sucker for off white, cream dials...Plus I've had several happy years experience living with one of their earlier models, the HMS 001 cream dial, lovely domed plexi crystal...a watch whose only minor flaws to my eyes was it's 50 m WR and lack of lume...mind you I managed to pick that one up for only about 200 gbp so zero complaints, still love it's design, stepped bezel and blued hands and it continues to run nicely despite a very modest movement...In fact it's a watch I've commented to my missus that if it had come with a screw down crown/ lume I'd not need another! It's as if the clever chaps at Baltic have heard me!
So in a nutshell one of these bad boys will be mine next year. Then I'm done, as it fits 'my tastes/brief/requirements perfectly, super svelte so easy wearing and for me far less likely to whack a door frame etc, plus ample WR for pool/beach life and those funky applied 3D lume bloc numerals I think are awesome.

review of the HMS 001 should anyone be interested,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjcSGGq27l4
I don't know if you saw it, but Jody just did a review of the Hermétique and raised a couple of points that would give me pause in buying one:

- lume starts out very strong but fades to nothing with disappointing speed

- the flush crown makes it v hard / impossible to manually wind (if you pull it out far enough to get a grip on it, you're in the setting position with hacked movement).

The latter especially I find off-putting, and it seems like a bad piece of design. I'd assumed they'd have set it up so you could pull it out far enough to get a purchase and still be able to actually wind it, but apparently not.