I always felt those borrowed some styling cues from the Omega Seamaster.
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Regarding the BB58, of course it channels retro; it's called the 58 because it takes inspiration from the 1958 Tudor Submariner. But to me, it's really more of a Tudor's greatest hits of yesteryear, packaged in the modern watch making materials & techniques of today.
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Only the hour markers, thankfully - cos everything else is UGLY
Admittedly I did have a traumatic 'pistachio' related experience in Belgium once which turned me against it
It was awful, there I was in a foreign country and unable to speak the language and I went into a Movenpick bar to buy some ice cream. I saw green ice cream and thought it was mint choc chip - yum, yum, yum! But no, once at the counter I realised it was 'pistachio', under pressure to make a decision I went with it because after all I like nuts and pistachios are nuts. It was horrible, it tasted like bubble gum, I was distraught - so much so that I've never eaten Movenpick since, or been back to Bruges!
The type of traumatic life changing experiences that changes you as a person.