It's very true that some watches look much better in photos than the flesh, and some vice versa - to a surprising degree. I bought a NOS 16570 [polar] years ago on the basis of seeing so many stunning pics of it online. Whenever I wore it - despite abs loving the weight and fit of those 5-digits - I was underwhelmed, and it would go back in the drawer. Then someone on here would post another beautiful closeup, and I'd get it out and look at it, and think 'meh' and take it off again. It seemed a pointless tango so years later I sold it.