Santos - blue dial. Any regrets?

[Dino944]

Originally Posted by RoRoRo

Feel the blue dial is more limited for strap
Change ups

Not really, I have the standard blue calf, the blue alligator, the oem black rubber strap, and the oem blue rubber strap, and one can easily do the gray, black or brown alligator which look great with it. I think the only colors I wouldn't do with it are green, red, or orange, but I wouldn't do red or orange even if I had the white dial.

[RoRoRo]

Originally Posted by Dino944

Not really, I have the standard blue calf, the blue alligator, the oem black rubber strap, and the oem blue rubber strap, and one can easily do the gray, black or brown alligator which look great with it. I think the only colors I wouldn't do with it are green, red, or orange, but I wouldn't do red or orange even if I had the white dial.

Personally wouldn’t pair many of your colour choices with the blue dial and shiny markers. The bracelet and navy croc are about as far as I’d go. The sunburst just makes it that little bit more dressy that even the enclosed blue calf you get with it looks strange. IMHO

[Dino944]

Originally Posted by RoRoRo

Personally wouldn’t pair many of your colour choices with the blue dial and shiny markers. The bracelet and navy croc are about as far as I’d go. The sunburst just makes it that little bit more dressy that even the enclosed blue calf you get with it looks strange. IMHO

People wear blue with brown, gray and black all the time, but to each his own.

[RoRoRo]

Originally Posted by Dino944

People wear blue with brown, gray and black all the time, but to each his own.

Wearing clothes is different. Trousers and shoes for example depend a lot on style, use, textures.

The style of a watch dial, bezel and strap is more cohesive as it is one. The style should suit.

Hence why a nato looks better on a 5 digit sub that has an aluminium with a slightly sheened bezel, whereas on a ceramic 6 digit it just looks wrong.

It’s nice to think that colours would just generally match but there’s more at play with a blue dial santos compared to a white dial which has slightly more neutrality which is why a lot more straps suit it.

[Dino944]

Originally Posted by RoRoRo

Wearing clothes is different. Trousers and shoes for example depend a lot on style, use, textures.

The style of a watch dial, bezel and strap is more cohesive as it is one. The style should suit.

Hence why a nato looks better on a 5 digit sub that has an aluminium with a slightly sheened bezel, whereas on a ceramic 6 digit it just looks wrong.

It’s nice to think that colours would just generally match but there’s more at play with a blue dial santos compared to a white dial which has slightly more neutrality which is why a lot more straps suit it.

Comparing a 5 and 6 digit reference Rolex is apples and oranges. While they may carry the same name some many have completely different cases, lugs, dials, hands, etc. Honestly, I'm not a fan of a Nato straps regardless of the model.

Have you actually tried any of the other color straps on a blue Santos, or are you simply going by what you can or can't imagine? The blue is a gradient dial that goes to a very dark gray almost black at the outer edges, so I'm not sure why you think black wouldn't work with it or gray (depending on the shade chosen). Anyway, I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.

[RoRoRo]

Originally Posted by Dino944

Comparing a 5 and 6 digit reference Rolex is apples and oranges. While they may carry the same name some many have completely different cases, lugs, dials, hands, etc. Honestly, I'm not a fan of a Nato straps regardless of the model.

Have you actually tried any of the other color straps on a blue Santos, or are you simply going by what you can or can't imagine? The blue is a gradient dial that goes to a very dark gray almost black at the outer edges, so I'm not sure why you think black wouldn't work with it or gray (depending on the shade chosen). Anyway, I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.

Yeah agree to disagree but simply the white is a way better strap monster for oem straps than the blue. Too much about the blue that doesn’t work. You do you.