OMEGA Specialities Olympic 1932 Chrono Chime 45 mm, Sedna™ gold on leather strap 522.53.45.52.04.001

Description

This striking numbered edition links the world’s first minute repeater wristwatch – produced by OMEGA in 1892 – to the pocket chronographs OMEGA used to time the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Cased in 18K Sedna™ Gold. It has a “Grand Feu” enamel dial with a 925 Silver guilloché inner bezel and subdials in OMEGA’s unique “exclusive acoustic waves” pattern: an exact visual representation of the soundwaves produced by the watch’s chimes.

The dial’s variety of blued hands in 18K Sedna™ Gold includes a red-varnished split seconds hand for easy readability. The chime pusher at 5 o’clock sports a charming polished and embossed music note, while the split-seconds pusher at 11 o’clock has a red hybrid ceramic ring to mirror the look of the split seconds hand.

Beautifully engraved on the caseback are the words Official Timekeeper Olympic Games, Co-Axial Master Chronometer and the watch’s number. The brown leather strap with 18K Sedna™ Gold buckle includes OMEGA’s new Quick-Change patented system.

The watch’s special presentation box in walnut, which features a resonance plate made of spruce to amplify the sound of each chime, includes an additional leather strap and two leather cords, allowing the “timekeeper” to wear it as a discreet pocket watch or a stopwatch around the neck.

Providing the power is the most complicated calibre OMEGA has ever made: OMEGA’s Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 1932. A fully integrated chronograph and minute repeater, which fuses both functions together in one watch movement, in order to chime the elapsed time.

Features

• Anti-magnetic: The movement is unaffected by exposure to strong magnetic fields, even those greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss).
• Chronograph: The chronograph function is a mechanism for measuring time intervals. A chronograph watch can therefore be used to time events while displaying the time like any traditional watch.
• Chronometer: Label given to a watch which has been successfully tested by an accredited and independent laboratory in order to receive a certificate compliant with the chronometer ISO 3159 standard.
• Numbered edition: A watch series each of whose pieces is numbered sequentially in the order it is produced.
• Small seconds: A hand on a sub-dial which tracks seconds typically it completes a full rotation in one minute.
• Transparent caseback: A transparent caseback – frequently made of sapphire – makes it possible to see the movement inside the watch.

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