Let’s see..

#1 my wife.

my cats

sailing

playing guitar

photography

my Ducati

i could go on.. Lots of interest, but watches would be below these items.

The flaw in your comparisons is that no one is buying Hamiltons, or Tissot for that matter. The supply exceeds demand. 

The Air King hasn’t seen quite the demand as the more popular Rolex steel models. The Joma price is inline with Chrono24 price history, which has declined in the last few months. 

I looked at the Joma prices for GMT II’s, still way up there, although coming down. I’m sure the investors, flippers, or grey market people are looking to get out soon. If a true recession hits, they wont be selling at retail even.. 

I like it for the most part. I wish Omega would ditch the wave dials. This one is a bit more subdued, but I still don’t like the wave dials. They should take a lesson from Grand Seiko on dial making.

Yep. Tricompax for sure.

Also an avid hobbyist photographer here. In this digital photography age, there is way too much editing, filtering, and misrepresentation out there. I’m pretty adamant about representing genuine images, and pride myself on doing just that. Its kind of my style and core to my craft. That goes for portraits, landscapes, still life, etc.. All of it. I dont photoshop anything and try do my best to capture in camera correctly the first time. It’s taught me a lot about light, composition, etc.. 

That said, RAW images are not meant to be the final product. Every camera will have a color profile that is applied to improve the dynamic range and the color science they feel best represents whats we see with our eye as default when saving as JPG. The raw image is no color science applied. Just straight sensor data. It is meant for post processing and more control without loss of data. You’ll notice that raw images look flatter, less saturated, and have less contrast, dynamic range, etc.. that what you see with your naked eye.

I post process all of my raw images in lightroom. I do it very quickly, and as accurate as I can to real life. It makes a huge difference. Blacks will be black and not grey. Color will be correct and not look flat. You can control the highlights, or bring up the shadows a bit, etc.. It’s not all about making colors look more saturated than they are in real life. It’s about taking the image and precessing it to represent what you see with your eyes. Camera sensors and processors are not near as good as our eyes, and they make averaged assumptions about exposure, etc.. It’s up to the developer to adjust for this to represent it on screen or print. You can also fix white balance, tint, etc.. 

So, long winded way for me to say that RAW is not the answer. But over exaggerating colors and making things unrealistic is not the answer IMO either. and FWIW in your example pics above, the JPG is over saturated a bit IMO, but the RAW is too flat..

Just my .02. 

I’d make a trip to an AD and check it out. The dial has a pearl like quality that gives a hint of silver look in certain light. It’s a very crisp watch with a ton of presence. Mine is keeping great time so far, less than 1 sec variance per day. I’ve bought a few watches online, but I lean more toward seeing In person now. 

Zenith is a good brand for sure. You know for quite a few years Rolex was using a Zenith movement in the Daytona. That said, i’m not a fan of the Zenith looks personally.

now with that out of the way, I’m very biased on this as I just purchased this exact Tudor Chrono (but on the black strap). My wife is actually buying the bracelet for me for xmas. I liked both looks. 

Have you seen the Tudor in person and tried it on? Its a stunner in person. Words cannot describe. I fell for it instantly when I saw a real one.