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eugeneandresson
·I am just wondering if this is subterfuge to make one ‘look left’ when something is coming from the right…
It can’t just be a spring 🤪
It can’t just be a spring 🤪
26 January 2023 - New Speedmaster - Rife Speculation
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GoBlueJedi
·Apparently their extremely efficient Integrated Circuit only requires 1/300,000,000 th of the power required to run an LED(or something like that?)
Another way to express it is if every person on the planet(7 billion) wore a Springdrive, they would collectively generate enough power to run a 175 Watt light bulb.
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Annapolis
·You know, it seems like most/all of us are assuming this is going to be some new technological breakthrough. But with Omega—a fan of retrospectives and reissues—isn’t there also a chance it’s going to be some kind of look back?
I’m not sure what would make 2023 the year for this, but seeing as the teaser image is of a balance spring (part of the overall escapement end of the movement), this could be some kind of commemorative nod to the coaxial escapement. It’d be a bit too obvious to show the escapement itself in the tease.
Maybe a tribute to to Daniels’ own modded Speedy mark 4.5?
Or not. Whatever.
I’m not sure what would make 2023 the year for this, but seeing as the teaser image is of a balance spring (part of the overall escapement end of the movement), this could be some kind of commemorative nod to the coaxial escapement. It’d be a bit too obvious to show the escapement itself in the tease.
Maybe a tribute to to Daniels’ own modded Speedy mark 4.5?
Or not. Whatever.
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lillatroll
·You know, it seems like most/all of us are assuming this is going to be some new technological breakthrough. But with Omega—a fan of retrospectives and reissues—isn’t there also a chance it’s going to be some kind of look back?
I’m not sure what would make 2023 the year for this, but seeing as the teaser image is of a balance spring (part of the overall escapement end of the movement), this could be some kind of commemorative nod to the coaxial escapement. It’d be a bit too obvious to show the escapement itself in the tease.
Maybe a tribute to to Daniels’ own modded Speedy mark 4.5?
Or not. Whatever.
, or words to that effect, so I think it is going to be something technical, how revolutionary it actually is, we will have to wait and see.
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brooke3
·There's probably nothing to this, but one thing I did notice: the URL for the video and image (e.g. https://www.omegawatches.com/media/wysiwyg/img-teaser-January-large.jpg) includes the acronym wysiwyg: "what you see is what you get."
This could be nothing more than the name of a generic folder in the omegawatches.com directory. But while we're rife with speculation, let's make something out of that! So we have a Speedmaster, an innovation in hairspring-ing, and "what you see is what you get." How do these clues fit together...
And doesn’t WYSIWYG suggest something with a screen …
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Annapolis
·And delivery took place several years later, to some.
Also, does the typical enthusiast care what a spring is made from?
Hodinkee did a long-form article (and a good thirty minutes of podcast) on the material history of mainsprings. So... some people do.
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Annapolis
·Unnecessatanium
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Modest_Proposal
·Also, does the typical enthusiast care what a spring is made from?
There is exponentially less to innovate now than a century ago. The same was true a century before that, and so on. People get excited about very small things because they're all we really have left. Theoretical micro technicals.
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ToMBeRi
·I share the photo of a Swatch with PAY and a normal one. In the one that integrates the payment, you can see a metallic piece that I suppose is the NFC to be able to associate the watch with a card and make payments. I don't know why, the terminals inside resemble those of the Omega resource that they put on IG.
SwatchPAY:
Swatch Standard:
Supposed piece that I deduce will be the NFC:
SwatchPAY:
Swatch Standard:
Supposed piece that I deduce will be the NFC:
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PandaSPUR
·I share the photo of a Swatch with PAY and a normal one. In the one that integrates the payment, you can see a metallic piece that I suppose is the NFC to be able to associate the watch with a card and make payments. I don't know why, the terminals inside resemble those of the Omega resource that they put on IG.
SwatchPAY:
Swatch Standard:
Supposed piece that I deduce will be the NFC:
Doesn't that only work because its a plastic watch? Pretty sure a metal watch would make passive NFC tags not work well if at all.
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Duckie
·Also, does the typical enthusiast care what a spring is made from?
A true enthusiast, yes.
Those that merely like the idea of being seen to be an enthusiast, perhaps to a lesser degree.
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Duckie
·There is exponentially less to innovate now than a century ago. The same was true a century before that, and so on. People get excited about very small things because they're all we really have left. Theoretical micro technicals.
There's plenty of big stuff to get excited about. It's just a bit too much for modern societies that have been conditioned to obsess over the small stuff that's dressed up pushed forward to give the impression that it's bigger stuff than it actually is.
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OmegaOwner2019
·And delivery took place several years later, to some.
Also, does the typical enthusiast care what a spring is made from?
Silicon spring is brittle and cannot be repaired or tinkered with. And from what I gathered, it limits the balance mechanism to free-sprung balance only.
There is a camp of people that feel silicon springs limits servicability due to parts, and limits the variety of movements.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerSilicon spring is brittle and cannot be repaired or tinkered with. And from what I gathered, it limits the balance mechanism to free-sprung balance only.
There is a camp of people that feel silicon springs limits servicability due to parts, and limits the variety of movements.
It's not brittle - ask anyone who has actually handled one, and they will confirm it.
You can't tinker with it, but on the other hand, you don't need to - they come out nearly perfect and stay that way.
Can't say as I've ever looked into if a regulator could be used on a silicon balance spring, but I really don't see why not. Having said that, free sprung balances are "better" anyway.
Serviceability is limited by access to parts, whether they are made of silicon, plastic, steel, or brass. The idea that having a silicon balance makes a real difference in future serviceability is really far-fetched. People in this "camp" seem to believe that any watchmaker can take a block of material, draw it into wire of the correct dimensions and physical properties, and form a balance spring from it. That is a fantasy - nothing could be further from the truth.
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