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26 January 2023 - New Speedmaster - Rife Speculation

watchthinker
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I have a Panerai manual wind with ca. 90 hours power reserve but the thought of having to wind it to full is not something to look forward to, also the accuracy is off the more it's powered down so with an 8 day PR I can only imagine it being worse.

I have a Panerai “8 Giorni”.._but it is a joy to wind with that huge crown…..Smaller stems would make it a challenge …
 
eugeneandresson
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An Applewatch certified by Omega and we can choose whatever the dial 😀)))))

Or even better : an Apple watch with a 1000h power-reserve spring drive mechanism designed by Omega ( called the Omega SpeedAppleMaster), that can be wound automatically (or by hand) finally making it dont-have-to-recharge-every-17h and finally elevating its status from 'next years landfill' to 'watch'. The dials are already on the LandfillWatch...
 
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Any time any of my favorite companies announce “massive change” I’m usually disappointed. So I’m not holding my breath and count myself lucky that I still bought one of the last 1861 calibers. I’d consider it the last actual “Moon Watch” at this point. If I’m going to put money on the table for yet another Speedy or two it’ll be an original from the late 60s and a 861 from the 80s.
 
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neekon neekon
That actually sounds kind of cool, a spring driven quartz movement would be a huge innovation, no more batteries, manual or automatic wind
Is that not the spring drive from Seiko?
 
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Is that not the spring drive from Seiko?

oh yea i guess ur right.
So that wouldnt be what it is
 
Evitzee
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Is that not the spring drive from Seiko?
It is. The Swiss were well aware of the work Seiko was doing during the long development of the Spring Drive technology and they decided to ignore it. The technology has never been recognized properly because it came from Japan and not Switzerland, but if Omega's big reveal is something along these lines they will build it up to make it sound as if it is a brand new, never conceived of, invention.
 
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Is that not the spring drive from Seiko?
Not if it can power an X33 or smartwatch type thing. No winding is no big deal. No charging however is a bigger deal IMO but hey, just making wild guesses.
 
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Is that not the spring drive from Seiko?
Spring Drive is not a quartz movement. It’s a mechanical movement that’s regulated against a quartz crystal. There’s a brake mechanism that uses the quartz signal to control the rotational speed of the movement to maintain accuracy.
 
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It would great if the new technological advance achieved by the hairspring/balance spring led to a recertification by NASA of the Speedmaster for space travel. That's not too much to want, is it?
 
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NFC chip?
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YY77
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Just got to say it irks me a little Omega teasing for something coming in over 3+ weeks time.☕ The Bond 60th was teased and shown within a week.
 
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Eve Eve
to me it looks just like their Silicon Hairspring.

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This! so maybe a better runtime...massively better 😁
 
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The article in Esquire referred to an entirely new watch, IIRC. Aside from what the technological “breakthrough” may be, have there been trustworthy rumors about a new watch/case?
 
scapa
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Just got to say it irks me a little Omega teasing for something coming in over 3+ weeks time.☕ The Bond 60th was teased and shown within a week.

Yep.

The Long Socials Tease of Various Components seems to have become a thing in the watch world. I'm not sure how well it's gonna wear after, say the 400th shot of 1/40th of a domed sapphire or parsed lume pip. I am beginning to miss those good ol' days when a customer could wander into a jeweller's, catch sight of an interesting watch and proceed to discover it for her or himself.
 
Archer
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demchocholips demchocholips
Spring Drive is not a quartz movement. It’s a mechanical movement that’s regulated against a quartz crystal. There’s a brake mechanism that uses the quartz signal to control the rotational speed of the movement to maintain accuracy.

The quartz crystal is the only thing controlling the unwinding of the mainspring. There is nothing else that is controlling it, so there's no mechanical escapement. People often make this sound like the quartz movement is only fine tuning the accuracy that is already there somehow, but it's 100% responsible for the accuracy. The spring would just unwind as fast as the frictional loads of the wheel turning would allow if it wasn't for the quartz crystal.

It's a mechanically powered (spring drive) quartz movement.
 
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I have a Panerai manual wind with ca. 90 hours power reserve but the thought of having to wind it to full is not something to look forward to, also the accuracy is off the more it's powered down so with an 8 day PR I can only imagine it being worse.

Agreed.
It's the law of diminishing returns in practice.
 
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