I like this colour scheme better than the BB54 to be honest. The gold indices doesn't work with the bezel on the BB54 IMO, so I like this better.

Do you like colourful straps? White works better with more summery colourful straps IMO. White is inherently more versatile to me for that very reason. You can put black or brown leather on a white dial to dress it up, keep it on the bracelet for the GADA vibes, and put on colourful NATO/perlons to dress it down for a very summery look. Black dial can't do the last bit as well for me. But, if colourful straps aren't your thing, black is just a tad bit more sombre and handsome to me.

I disagree to a certain extent though. The Reverso and the Santos were sport watches in the days where sports were still played in relatively very dressy outfits. Both of them were designed in a time where almost every man had a suit and wore a suit regularly in town. I believed that the more formal culture back then influenced the design of the sports watches to still look coherent with the general outfits of the era. That, I believe, is why they work as dress watches today because a polo player of the 1930s would still dress more formally and more elegantly than an average person of the 2020s. Dress watches to me are primarily defined by their form and elegance, not by their antiquity or defunct utility. There will be a day where a Richard Mille would be considered a bonafide dress watch, but I dread for that day.

P.S. you can tell which side of "can you wear a dive watch with a suit" do I lean on, can't you? 😂

Just a heads up, Seiko actually updated the SPB143 with the SPB453 with a full black dial, slightly more wearable case (smaller in every dimension overall) and better specs. I expect the new one to cost more than the SPB143 but I would save up for that if I were you (because I've been trying to get one myself).

That's the first bund strap and watch combo that I actually like. Wow

Dude, thank you for taking time for this. It's mighty impressive. Congratulations to Baltic, the Prismic is one of the prettiest watches I've seen from a microbrand.

Happy Easter to you too! Hope you have a blessed weekend ahead!