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Nice article. Had to use the translate from the browser to understand it..😀
 
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Quote « Como podemos apreciar en la galería superior, los primeros ejemplares del Omega Marine equiparon el calibre manual 19.4TI. En este caso, la corona se situaba a la 12 h y no fue hasta el año 1943 que se equiparon con los calibres automáticos (bumper) 28.10 y 30.10. »????
Has anyone ever heard of marine (mk 1, 2 or 3) with an automatic movement? The case must have been different as a 30.10 and even a 28.10 are too big to fit in any case designed for those refrences. mk 1 had a 19.4 inside, mk2 a T17, and mk3 a R17.8….
I would be very interested to see the references supporting the existence of those automatic marine…
 
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Quote « Como podemos apreciar en la galería superior, los primeros ejemplares del Omega Marine equiparon el calibre manual 19.4TI. En este caso, la corona se situaba a la 12 h y no fue hasta el año 1943 que se equiparon con los calibres automáticos (bumper) 28.10 y 30.10. »????
Has anyone ever heard of marine (mk 1, 2 or 3) with an automatic movement? The case must have been different as a 30.10 and even a 28.10 are too big to fit in any case designed for those refrences. mk 1 had a 19.4 inside, mk2 a T17, and mk3 a R17.8….
I would be very interested to see the references supporting the existence of those automatic marine…

The Boettcher's article tells us that although the Marine would have been an ideal candidate for an automatic winding movement, Omega did not introduce their first automatic movements until 1943, with the bumper automatic 28.10 and 30.10 calibres, and the Marine was never fitted with an automatic movement 📖
 
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The Boettcher's article tells us that although the Marine would have been an ideal candidate for an automatic winding movement, Omega did not introduce their first automatic movements until 1943, with the bumper automatic 28.10 and 30.10 calibres, and the Marine was never fitted with an automatic movement 📖
That’s exactly the info I had.

Another debatable point in this sentence is the presence of the crown at twelve.

The feet location on caliber 19.4 and the suppression of the seconds hand on the ones used for the marine (using a savonnette caliber as a lepine) allows to rotate it by 180 degrees. So you can have the crown at 12 or at six without changing the dial.
As far as I remember, there were period images showing the crown in one or the other location (this last point I need to check again).

I am not sure that there was one unique factory configuration.
 
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