hey no offense meant, sorry if it came across abrasive in any way to you.
I tend to think of the generations of Juliet as a bit fluid - rather than having a hard cut-off, after which there is a discrete variant, they more sort of blend across the generations. The split boxes at the tail end of the 4th gen is a prime example - you want to introduce a new box and a new, SKU-stamped, frame but you have "sterile" (a term we use in watch collecting for dials, means no markings) frames left over with no old-style boxes to put them in. Do you junk the frames or put them in the new style boxes? I know Oakley occasionally likes to take the path less trodden but that one seems a straightforward business decision for most companies.
No problem BriP
It's even worse in watch collecting - I collect Heuers from their "golden period" in the 60s and 70s and they would make subtle changes to dials and handsets pretty frequently, with the intention that the two go together - wider hands to match the wider hour markers, for example. But they were also parsimonious and would use up existing stock. So if one watchmaker at one workbench used up his or her stock of dials before the hands, they would use a new dial with the old hands. Meanwhile, two benches away, someone was running out of old-style hands so paired the new hands with the old dial. The MPHs of the watch world, if you will. It doesn't happen now when every piece is on brand and just so, but Swiss watchmaking was a different world 50 years ago.
And I kind of feel that a pre-Lux Oakley was more like those Swiss watchmaking years before the Quartz crisis, while nowadays it's more efficient but has perhaps lost a little of the charm along the way. Not wishing to Lux-bash though, I have a bunch of Holbrooks alongside the Juliets and "New" Frogs!
Hey man don't sweat it - BriP (aka Brian) is a great authority on x-metals/lenses/Oaks and has been on this forum way longer than you and I put together. He's very direct and frank in his comments but it's all about the facts, nothing personal; he's a great guy who will bend over backwards to help you figure out the truth to things... it's all good...
so short works how about this one guys..it was advertised as juliet xx metal and I asked the serial but only gave me 06-114P..I think he gave me the SKU# but don't think it is from a juliet or a XX..
