Need more data about this Omega Seamaster chronometre

qazwsx1 · Mar 13, 2022

Hello, all omega forums members.

I searched on google about an old Omega advertisement then I found this one, the Omega Seamaster chronometre from the 1950s.
Please note chronome"ter" on lower part of an advertisement, while chronome"tre" on the dial.

I believe it was the early model of Seamaster but without Seamaster word on the dial.

I try to research the real one but I cannot find any watches like this picture.

I think someone in this forum may have it.

Please share your pictures and comments, also can you guess the reference / the caliber of this watch in an advertisement?

Thanks for your advice.
Teerapat

cvalue13 · Mar 13, 2022

qazwsx1
Please note chronome"ter" on lower part of an advertisement, while chronome"tre" on the dial.

Isnt that just because the advertisement is “translating” to English?

joeshoup · Mar 13, 2022

cvalue13
Isnt that just because the advertisement is “translating” to English?

Or, just as likely, from English to American, since we have some different spelling customs!

cvalue13 · Mar 13, 2022

joeshoup
Or, just as likely, from English to American, since we have some different spelling customs!

“meter” in English (Queen’s or Freedom’s) is the same on both sides of the pond.

French (Swiss horology’s love language) to English, I believe. (Later, many dials changed to the “ter” formulation.)

MSNWatch · Mar 13, 2022

I think many of these examples will be 36mm watches.

qazwsx1 · Mar 14, 2022

Thanks for your advice @cvalue13, @joeshoup and @MSNWatch 😀

joeshoup · Mar 14, 2022

cvalue13

“meter” in English (Queen’s or Freedom’s) is the same on both sides of the pond.

French (Swiss horology’s love language) to English, I believe. (Later, many dials changed to the “ter” formulation.)

Forgive me, but our British friends really do spell it 'metre', or did anyhow when I lived there (in a previous millennium). I realize I don't know for sure whether "chronometre" is an English word per se, or whether they were printing these dials in a mix of languages. I find the first explanation more parsimonious!

More importantly, good luck to OP, this model is very cool!

Peemacgee · Mar 14, 2022

joeshoup
Forgive me, but our British friends really do spell it 'metre', or did anyhow when I lived there (in a previous millennium). I realize I don't know for sure whether "chronometre" is an English word per se, or whether they were printing these dials in a mix of languages. I find the first explanation more parsimonious!

More importantly, good luck to OP, this model is very cool!

well, you're half-way correct.
In the UK a metre is a unit of measurement
Whereas a meter is something you measure with.

hoipolloi · Mar 14, 2022

MSNWatch
I think many of these examples will be 36mm watches.

The early 36mm chronometre with screw in case back that I can think of is ref 2519. Cal 333. But it is not a SC model.

cvalue13 · Mar 14, 2022

joeshoup
I realize I don't know for sure whether "chronometre" is an English word per se, or whether they were printing these dials in a mix of languages. I find the first explanation more parsimonious!

The spellings on the dials did/do shift from the Swiss-French spelling (re) to the English spelling (er) sometime in the late 1950’s, for watches sent to any market, unparsimonious as it may be.

Thermometer, odometer, or chronometer will all read the same in English, but in Canada the centre of every theatre is a strange colour.

Archer · Mar 14, 2022

cvalue13
Canada the centre of every theatre is a strange colour.

As it should be.

Could you please pass me a serviette, as I've spilled the poutine I picked up at the cabanes à patates on the chesterfield...

cvalue13 · Mar 14, 2022

Archer
As it should be.

Could you please pass me a serviette, as I've spilled the poutine I picked up at the cabanes à patates on the chesterfield...

Fitting, as this Wednesday morning my Winnipeg family descends upon us for an extra long weekend of messing about my chesterfield.

Archer · Mar 14, 2022

cvalue13
Fitting, as this Wednesday morning my Winnipeg family descends upon us for an extra long weekend of messing about my chesterfield.

Ah, people from the Peg. Maybe replace poutine with pierogi and sausage...😉

el_relojero · Mar 14, 2022

My humble chronometer jumbo cal. 333. That's the way it should look

MSNWatch · Mar 14, 2022

Ok 2 jumbos:

cvalue13 · Mar 14, 2022

Archer
Ah, people from the Peg. Maybe replace poutine with pierogi and sausage...😉

Spot on.

Other half (FIL side) from Calgary (pronounced “north Texas”).

renebosman · Mar 15, 2022

qazwsx1
Hello, all omega forums members.

I searched on google about an old Omega advertisement then I found this one, the Omega Seamaster chronometre from the 1950s.
Please note chronome"ter" on lower part of an advertisement, while chronome"tre" on the dial.

I believe it was the early model of Seamaster but without Seamaster word on the dial.

I try to research the real one but I cannot find any watches like this picture.

I think someone in this forum may have it.

Please share your pictures and comments, also can you guess the reference / the caliber of this watch in an advertisement?

Thanks for your advice.
Teerapat

renebosman · Mar 15, 2022

this is my 343 just restored. somebody told me only 10.000 made.

Need more data about this Omega Seamaster chronometre

qazwsx1

cvalue13

joeshoup

cvalue13

MSNWatch

qazwsx1

joeshoup

Peemacgee

hoipolloi

cvalue13

Archer

cvalue13

Archer

el_relojero

MSNWatch

cvalue13

renebosman

renebosman

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