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So....I'm fast approaching my 40th birthday and my better half asked what I'd like as a 'commemorative'. I suggested to my wife that I would like a Transocean Chronograph.....and she came back to me with a bit of a dilemma...

Would you prefer:

1) one each of the rose gold bezel/stainless case, silver and black faces;
1) one rose gold case model, either silver or black face

I am honestly torn about this. In the past, I've always saved my money until such time as I could afford white/silver and black of whichever Breitling I had my eye on, and always two-tone, and I've never really thought too much about investing in an all gold piece because I thought I'd be too petrified of scratching it up such that it would sit in my safe. But I visited the NY boutique a few days ago and have to say that the all gold/silver TOC is a truly beautiful timepiece so I don't know. The rose gold/steel combos are not bad at all-don't get me wrong.

Interested in thoughts, if any. Embarrassment of riches, I know....but it takes some of the bite out of the big 4-0.

Well congrats on the upcoming milestone.

I think that at some point the idea of a gold watch becomes not only more attractive but almost a 'siren call' - they just look so darned nice. Personally I'm a sucker for darker dials with rose gold, but I'm not sure that there is a bad choice. For me, especially as a milestone birthday commemorative from your wife, I would go for the gold piece.

It should be obvious, but......

On strap, never on gold bracelet.

The rose gold TO Chronos do look very nice. I'd stick with just getting one of those.

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i would get TOC gold with silver dial! truly nice piece

As far as the choice of color combinations, I like the all gold case, black dial with black croc strap.

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Personally I'd go rose gold TOC with a black dial.

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Driver8

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Same here

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Rose gold case, silver dial. NO DOUBT! If they had a steel case with the silver dial all the way through, no black subdials, then I'd have one. Okay...they did have the limited edition, but I don't like numbers engraved on the side of the case. For me the next best thing (though maybe I like it even more) is the silver-dial 3-hand, so that's what I ended up with and I love it.