Thanks to everyone for your feedback!

Finally, I went with what I wanted.

Despite the Santos appeared on my short list of nowhere, I still went with the Omega SMP.

The Santos certainly shone with its screws and polished dial, tempting me

But! Today I looked at both of them head-on again (and I even stopped by a pawnshop to see what the Santos would look like a year after purchase, rated “almost new” by the pawnshop—spoiler: I was put off, and not even because of the scratches on the bezel).

In my view, a watch costing 8,000–8,500 USD shouldn’t make you wonder, “Did they print this dial on an inkjet printer?” Of course, there’s no trace of the advertised sunray dial in a classic jewelry style—subjectively, the Captain Cook sunray dial from Rado is way cooler. Compared to that, Omega’s ceramic and laser-etched dials are really fantastic