and it's almost in between what you have here. It's this: I can't really be sure that I like a Day-Date with zero lume. So this one strikes the balance for me—colour matched, essentially, has lume, and still a sunburst. Looks very cool in person, I think,
I'm thinking of buying my first white-gold Day-Date (228239) and am trying to choose between the black-dial version with stick indices and lumed hands and the (conventional, non-ombre) blue-dial version with roman numerals and non-lumen hands. For those w
Unfortunately other things came up so it had to go (despite this, I regret letting it go). But now that things have stabilized for me, I may be in a place (in a while) to afford this 228239. It would probably be one of my last watches I ever get. I think
Was looking at the local AD today. Asked if they had a DD40 and they did, so they let me try it. What a watch. Though it occasionally pains me to have sold my 118238, I'm very impressed by the 228238 right here. I think maybe, on the distant horizon, its