don't you think Omega is also diluting their products by issuing so many limited additions?
The way I see it, each LE is a different, and fun, interpretation of the classic Speedmaster design. I think it keeps the line fresh, and now that Omega has learned their lesson about what constitutes a true Limited Edition (~2000 pcs), they're each rare enough that they don't crowd one another out. Not all LEs appeal to every person, so while I might go nuts over an Apollo XI 45th Anniversary but skip the Silver Snoopy, someone else may feel the inverse and thus, we are both happy with our watches.
Do you think that Rolex and Omega owners are douche bags when it comes to other watch brands? [...] I posted this question over on the Omega forum and to no surprise, those guys weren't too please....
Well, generalizing any group all to be douchebags would likely not please them no matter who they were, don't you think?
Coming from a TAG Heuer perspective though, and speaking from my own personal experience, I find that Omega has been executing their product lines with particular excellence these past few years. By nodding to their iconic past, with the SM300 MC; by producing exciting watches with a tasteful reserve of color, like the original Dark Side of the Moon (see the touches of red - no more than necessary to get the point across).
Personally for me modern Rolex does nothing, but I entered this hobby via my enthusiasm for automobile racing, and Heuer's lovely understated chronographs that were associated with that activity. I am of the belief that the original, reference 2447 Carrera is the absolute most perfect chronograph design ever. And to see what TAG has done with that sublime genealogy, just bothers me. So I do take a bit of a nasty tone at each new overstatement that TAG inflicts upon the Carrera name, but do understand my opinion is limited to the watch itself, and not to those who would buy them. I may not appreciate the watches, but my heart is still warmed by each excited post here by a new owner of a Heuer-01 or a tourbillon etc. I can't speak for others, but I think at other sites where there's less of a sense of community, the notion that at the base of it we are all enthusiasts of the same thing, is lost.
