I‘m glad to be back! I used to have a MSAR black dial quartz, but stupidly sold it a few years ago. I’ve been thinking about it ever since, and decided to get another one. I got a MSAR quartz white dial this time but I noticed that it wears thicker than my old one.
I thought I was going crazy, but I contacted Marathon and they confirmed that the case in the MSAR quartz was updated in the last couple years and it is a bit thicker (about 1mm thicker). they specifically said “The manufacture of that case changed and to accommodate our product the case size changed a little.”
I am a bit bummed, because I like wearing NATOs and having the watch wear even taller is not ideal, especially when there’s a thin quartz movement inside. it already wears like a stack of nickels! I still like it though! the white dial is great and I’m looking forward to getting it in the water
here is it on a Eulit perlon two-piece strap. Wrist is ~6.5” for reference. cheers!