Can't decide between these two... Pilot Big Date is $4500 ($7600 retail) new, and the open dial El Primero is $4500 (retail ~$10,000) used but in mint condition (the wear in the photos is just a bit of grime that wipes right off). 38mm El Primero is selling for $4700 new at a trustworthy grey market site. Pros and cons please...
Same here: open dials don't do anything for me (even if you get the power reserve as well with it). I'd probably pick the Pilot, especially as I am having increasing difficulty reading the date feature on my watches. In addition, I love the A386 hommage but hate its subdial arrangement (the original A386 had the hour totalizer under the other two). The Pilot is a little bigger and chunkier so if size is an issue, I'd advise you to get the 38mm EP.
I happen to like the open view dial but many do not, to each their own. I would pick the open view dial with the power reserve, because I find that option very useful.
of the three, if 38mm is not too small for you, I would get the tricolor... but if you can afford it, I would go for the striking 10th, or even the one with same aspect but just chrono, not 1/10, which is also bigger than the 38mm (41 or 42mm if I am not wrong)
I don't understand why they went for the overlap on the 38mm. I guess they didn't want to create anything too close to the A386, but if they had, they would have sold me one by now.
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