How to set seconds on a vintage Omega?

Egatdagi · Feb 9, 2016

Ironically, I got into vintage watches because I got tired of pulling my phone out. I dug through my stuff and found my old grad watch and when it didn't work I started searching for another. The rest is history. 80+ watches later and I can't stop.

Deafboy · Feb 10, 2016

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Deafboy,

I ran across this while looking for something else:
http://mb.nawcc.org/showwiki.php?title=Railroad_Time_Service

Very nice article indeed! So seconds precision was not required for day-to-day work by conductors or engineers. Since there was a tolerance of +/- 30 seconds on the accuracy of watches, my guess is that that railroad events (e.g. switching a track) could be scheduled to within a few minutes while assuring safety.

Nactex · Feb 10, 2016

I also use the slight backward pressure to set the seconds on non-hacking movements while in the time set mode and it works great.

How to set seconds on a vintage Omega?

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