zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

: I see what you mean. I have this exact same watch, which I brought in March of this year. It is the 2232.80 with Speedy bracelet and has no date frame box(thank goodness, I don't like the frame). I was looking through an older Omega catalog that I have and it indeed shows the 2231.80 Bond style without the white frame! The only thing I can imagine is that the ones with the white frame are older stock and the ones without it are newer stock, yet not new enough to have the Speedy bracelet. My reasoning for this is that the ones pictured on the Omega official site with the Bond bracelet show the white frame, and I guess these pictures would have been added to the site when the watch first came out. The catalog I have that shows the watch with the Bond bracelet and no date frame is not brand new, but new enough to picture the Speedmaster Broad Arrow, which was not around when the titanium with Bond bracelet came out. This leads me to believe that picture is newer then the website picture of the same watch. Follow my convoluted reasoning? At least its the only explanation I could come up with. One thing is fairly certain, they do seem to be eliminating the white frame on all but the Bond watch.