Today I had the pleasure of visiting the Omega museum Lucky me too, they were preparing a new display section with some previously unseen examples of their skill from as early as 1931. This display is to be announced at Baselworld very shortly so as yet no journalists have seen it to my knowledge. These should be the first pics on the web anyway! Apologies for the quality of the pics, I only had a little compact camera and the light levels are quite low. Some were taken through the magnifying glasses fitted i to the cabinet. Hope you guys enjoy them anyway! The bi-directional self winding movement The Shockless escapement The magnetic escapement 36,000 A/H prototype Hi-beat stopwatch Prototype 36,000 A/H Seamasters - the Witschi machine is running and I'll try and upload a video later
That's true! Although to be fair, I'm new here and the photo uploaded doesn't seem to like the iPad. Might have to delete the thread and try again
Photos fixed hopefully, thanks for your patience guys. I have a couple of videos of the Seamasters showing just how smooth the second hand is but given tonight's issues I'll leave them for another day lol
Very cool stuff. It makes one wonder why those frictionless escapements weren't in their wristwatches. Heading there myself in September. Nothing like watch-porn tourism