I have to say I find this quite a harsh review. I bought AJTT probably ten or twelve years ago now and certainly for the first few years it helped me avoid quite a few problem watches and has paid itself back to me many times over.
It also helped broaden my understanding and appreciation for Omega's vast back catalogue of not only wrist watches but other kinds of time pieces.
The section on clocks certainly stimulated me enough to seek out many more and to expand my collection significantly in this area. Not many were collecting them then, probably due to lack of info, and this book really shows many of the models well.
Agreed it does lack depth and clarity and certainly has some dubious redials so it should be used as one of a multtude of help aids rather than a pure definitive reference, but still I wouldn't be without my copy and back when it was printed it was by far the best thing out there.
I have to say I find this quite a harsh review. I bought AJTT probably ten or twelve years ago now and certainly for the first few years it helped me avoid quite a few problem watches and has paid itself back to me many times over.
It also helped broaden my understanding and appreciation for Omega's vast back catalogue of not only wrist watches but other kinds of time pieces.
The section on clocks certainly stimulated me enough to seek out many more and to expand my collection significantly in this area. Not many were collecting them then, probably due to lack of info, and this book really shows many of the models well.
Agreed it does lack depth and clarity and certainly has some dubious redials so it should be used as one of a multtude of help aids rather than a pure definitive reference, but still I wouldn't be without my copy and back when it was printed it was by far the best thing out there.
A Journey Through Time, often referred to as AJTT, is a massive book released in 2007 by the then-curator of the Omega Museum, Marco Richon. The book is nothing short of enormous, at 831 pages and being so heavy that it is downright cumbersome. [..]
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Don't agree. It is still useful for an meticulous collector today. The price is an individual problem.
I think this review is really unfair and targeted to a very specific type of collectors.
I acknowledge that there are a number of redials and uncorrect watches but if you are not obsessed by Speeds ot 30 RG, what else? Where can you find information on early Pocket watches, models from the 20’s and 30’s?
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« For the same price as this you can buy yourself a copy of Moonwatch Only, and a copy of Omega 30mm Chronometers, both of which are much better investments and significantly more practically useful for collectors interested in those models. »
Both books are of better quality/accuracy but not all collectors are interested only in those two specific models.
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« there are sections dedicated to pocket watches, to 1970s cocktail watches, electronic DeVilles from the 80s, and frankly a lot of watches that are overlooked not due to rarity, but due to them being rubbish, or genuine low points in Omega’s history. »
With all due respect I wouldn’t qualify pocket watches as rubbish or low point in Omega history. Once again for pre 1940 period, what else?
I still consult Omega Saga, AJTT, Omega designs (by A Kreuzer) very regularly, they are, with period catalogs, the only source for the ones who collect Omega watches outside of the trendy more recent speeds, seamaster 300 and the like.
IMHO there is no need of AJTT bashing, everyone here recognizes what valuable information OmegaForum brings to the collectors community.
I’m open to making some changes to it as really unfair or bashing isn’t what I was aiming for at all, more of a realistic explanation of the content and it’s value to the average newcomer to buying vintage Omegas and perhaps my bluntness made it sound worse as a result.
I do respect your interest in the very early stuff and thoroughly enjoy your posts on this topics but it’s not a widely embraced topic and people to tend to coalesce more around the 50s-60s dress watches and sports watches.
When pocket watches do come up in threads here it tends to be more a case of “here is an omega pocket watch what’s it worth and how can they get rid of it” which is a bit sad but we would be lucky to have one thread per year about someone actually buying a pocket watch.
I think the reason people in large are drawn to the known trendy group of watches is more just the practicality, they’re a bit larger, a bit more water resistant, and a bit more like a modern watch to service and wear than most or what came before, and somewhat easier to find.
But once again I’d there are particular parts that are unfair or come across as bashing I’m willing to address or alter those as that wasn’t the intent.
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