I posted this not terribly good pic of mine from PT in the skinny wrist thread a couple of days ago.. In normal use the reflections are better than they seem in the image. The awful 'genuine' alligator strap had to go of course, and it's on a real alligator strap from one of the vietnamese ebay sellers. In fact, I bought 2 straps for it from him, both blue. One alligator and one python. The python one is thin enough to take the butterfly clasp the watch comes with, but the alligator one here is fully padded all the way along and thus too thick.
I posted this not terribly good pic of mine from PT in the skinny wrist thread a couple of days ago.. In normal use the reflections are better than they seem in the image. The awful 'genuine' alligator strap had to go of course, and it's on a real alligator strap from one of the vietnamese ebay sellers. In fact, I bought 2 strap for it from him, both blue. One alligator and one python. The python one is thin enough to take the butterfly clasp the watch comes with, but the alligator one here is fully padded all the way along and thus too thick.
The lume is very good, shines green almost as well as my Explorer II does blue so it glows when coming into a normally lit interior from outside. The AR is much better than it looks on those pics of mine when the watch isn't at an angle. But, as that very reasonable thread says, wabi sabi!
Thanks for the mini review, great info to know about this lesser known piece. Oh by loupe I meant the date magnifier lol. I was just wondering if it was distorted at all when viewed directly.The lume is very good, shines green almost as well as my Explorer II does blue so it glows when coming into a normally lit interior from outside. The AR is much better than it looks on those pics of mine when the watch isn't at an angle. But, as that very reasonable thread says, wabi sabi!
https://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/313644-Wabi-sabi-term-we-should-all-be-aware-of
If you did mean 'loupe' ,as in viewed through one, then it's all very tidy.
If I had to fault it, then the gmt hand could do with a micro-smidge push round to line up perfectly on the hour, but it's really not noticeable.
Yeah it's just the optics of the matter. My 243 HF V2 is also fine from head on, I just know some have complained of "sea sick" loupes in some of the other HF reps, as in they're distorted even from head on. Great to hear HF got it right on the 228 though at least!