Combining vintage 30mm Chronometer styling, Omega's best ultra-thin movement, and a high tech case design featuring one of their earliest sapphire crystals, the 157.0001 is a shining star of the Constellation range, which still gets far less attention than it deserves. [..] Visit Peak 70's Engineering: The Ultra-Thin Constellation 157.0001 Cal 712 Chronometer & Tenshodo 100th Jubilee Edition to read the full article.
Oh, the trains...I remember staring lustfully at them in the glass display cases at the model train shop near me when I was a kid. Still in business since 1951! Thanks for another great article and some unexpected memories.
Yea dad was so excited when I called him about them, I figured expensive trains would be a few hundred, I didn’t realize these Tenshodo trains would be $4,000 USD used! It really is a stroke of genius too how they built it, focusing on pre-war high end American trains and selling them along side high end Swiss watches to justify the price and suggest a similar craftsmanship, then letting US servicemen with money burning a hole in their pocket buy them and ship them back home to build a reputation there. They also branched out into high end jewelry like engagement rings, necklaces and bracelets, with Swiss watches being the driver of foot traffic to all of those other products.
Didn't the Squirrel have one of these, or did it get passed along? Edit: I should have read the article before jumping to conclusions. Daniel (@CanberraOmega) has one.
Many thanks for putting this wonderful series of ultra-thin Constellations on my map. Great research, great pictures, love it This is why I love places like this, I would never have known about them otherwise.