How neat! I'm surprised the Polaris Geographic wasn't introduced at Watches and Wonders. This is a big release that has only been mentioned on a few channels. One immediate difference I noticed from the MC Geographic is that they fixed the crown which turns the city disc; on the Master Control version, the crown could only be rotated in one direction, otherwise it would unscrew off!
I think if they did that, the Duometre would get overshadowed and most of the attention would focus on the Polaris, my opinion. JLC still have some more releases later this year I'm told! So stau tuned. Thanks for the info on the Master Control! This Polaris is a winner.
That Polaris Geographic dial is gorgeous. However, the crown is too offset towards the back of the movement and you can see this in the Master Control Geographic too. It's likely that because of the crown offset, they need to use a smaller crown compared to any other Polaris: the diver, chrono, perpetual calendar, and the Memovox all have their crowns right in the middle of the case. Once you see this it's hard to unseen: the Geographic crown will often look offset and disproportionately small.
Thank you for the long write up. I'm trying to see what you mean by the smaller crown. In the video, during the side by side comparison I can't quite see it. Is it that obvious?
@@WatchYourFront_ I think it's more about the offset and less about small, the effect is kinda like Speedy Reduced vs. Speedy Pro. It might look smaller simply due to having only one crown at the right side.
The crown is right in the middle of the case, the second "crown" and location gmt function is off set, they set this where most put the He release valve like on the SMP i think it fits perfectly. Also as its off set it makes no sense to have a larger crown on the off set side as it unbalances the watch and its kind of in the way
@@donoghue666 By offset I don't mean that the crown is at the 2 o'clock or 4 o'clock position, yes it's right at 3 o'clock. But I mean its position between the crystal of the watch and the back. If you look at the whole Polaris line up, take the official website picture, all but the Geographic have the crowns relatively middle in the case, also the crown of all other watches almost blocks the whole side wall of the case, simply measuring from the pictures, they have a crown about 6.5 - 7mm diameter. The Geographic, in comparison, have the crown close to the back and blocks only 2/3 of the case side, again from the pictures, the diameter is about 5mm. Note that the Geographic (and the perpetual calendar) is one of the thinner watches among Polaris, so if they use the same crown, it should have a similar visual effect as the perpetual calendar. You can see the same pattern in the Master Control Geographic and Calendar. Also on the old Omega Speedmaster Reduced. This usually happens when a feature is not natively built in the movement, but as an add-on module, and hence the original timing module is moved towards the back. I think if this watch would look even better with the same crown size and center crown position as the other Polaris. Same for the two Master Control mentioned.
I think 40-42 is the sweet spot for a sports watch but that is just IMO. I havent tried on a 38 in forever but been obsessing about a 38.5 on RU-vid, some micro brand, so hoping I like smaller sizes
@@steveeschweiler8603 Agreed. Legibility for a sports watch especially a dive watch is important. For the Geographic, if it was any smaller, the dial might be too cluttered.
