Morning all
As any forum members who know me know my real passion in terms of watches is the Omega Megaquartz F2.4Mhz family and specifically the Marine Chronometer, I've owned over a dozen 2.4Mhz watches but the jewel in my collection are my Marine Chronometers. This dream came to fruition three years ago when I lucked upon the opportunity of a life time to find and birth year, birth day watch sold originally in my hometown of Grimsby from the jewellers I got my first Omega from way back 15 years ago when I was 21.
The Marine Chronometers as many of you know is a very special watch, the most accurate watch Omega have ever made and the only one to ever be awarded the prestigious title of Marine Chronometer. Although fundamentally the same watch as the Megaquartz F2.4Mhz, the watch was rebranded and produced in 1000 units (in 1511 format) and 6000 units (in 1516 format).
When new the watches came in a range of bespoke boxes (and so they should, they were £762 when new, which was the price of a two year old Porsche 911 or a brand new family car, as part of the package you received customers also received a set of Marine Chronometer certificates from the Besancon institute confirming the watches status as a Marine Chronometer. Many of these watches lost their certificates but they are available as duplicates from Besancon.
The certificates originally came in a Lizard print vinyl folder, I have only seen pictures of these!
Anyway, now owning four Marine Chronometers I decided I would have the certificate holders reproduced for my watches, and here are the results, I know it might seem OCD of me but these are such special and amazing watches I wanted the sets to be as complete as they possibly could be
Anyway, wanted to share my OCD with the forum and if I do say so myself I am quite pleased with the results
Cheers Tom
Click to expand...