Hello everyone, please apologize me in advance for the terminology, i'm totally a newbie in the field.... I found this lovely-aged stopwatch, it was among my grandfather stuff. Unfortunately I've no clue about the model and eventually the possibility it would have any "historical" or economical value. It seems one of the Olympic edition of the Montréal and Innsbruck games of 1976. To me the weird thing is the right-sided 'lap' button and the 30 seconds scale. Is there anyone that can explain me something more about the button position, the dial scale and the model? Thank you in advance for the passion you are putting in this forum, it is really helpful to people like me approaching the field for the first time! P.S. Despite the time and no attention, it is still perfectly working!
Not a wierd scale. 15 minutes max, 30 seconds dial accurate to 10th of a second. Subdial is 15 minutes in 30 second marks. Buttons are stop start and reset. Not sure if it did lap times need more information on the movement.
Thanks for the information. I confirm the possibility to do lap time, it has two hands, the white one visible in the picture and an orange one below it. Do you know if there any reason for which some omega stopwatch has left button and some other a right one? Is it a left-handed version? And again is it so common a 30 seconds dial?
It’s not uncommon. It allows for more accurate time reading on movements that beat 10 times a second. Stop watches are not very well researched on the internet. A few times a year something like this pops up. Omega was official time keeper for the Olympics for a long time. The stop watches they made for various Olympic events have not really been catalogued.
I understand, it is not something you can wear, it's just a collection piece eventually. thanks for the interesting info! EDIT: Does it need to be charged? how it is possible that it is still working after at least 20 years of almost no attention?
Its mechanical, and I assume you wind it by rotating the knurled pusher at the 12 o clock. I would not keep playing with it as the oils have long dried out and you could start doing damage to the movement. Its a very cool piece. My guess is a service would run a few hundred at most from a good watchmaker.
It seems that the non-Olympic edition is the Omega Model MG 6456 https://bit.ly/2UcghpM https://bit.ly/2U1adAY
29 Omega stopwatches I think know there members in here with way more Never seen that version with Montréal and Innsbruck games of 1976, I have this one, that is more common i think
wow, it seems new! it's gorgeous! 29 is not a small number number! about mine, i did a really deep research online, and i was not able to find that exact model..
