During a visit to the Patek Philippe Museum last year, I spontaneously fell in love with the 24-hour dial of this Chronometro Gondolo.

Until now, I had hardly ever consciously seen dials like this on pocket watches. While researching on the internet, I found out that Omega also made such a model.

Do any of you have more information about these beautiful watches?

 

Just saw this one on the auction site.

 

thank you for sharing but I m not sure if this one looks legit to me?

 

Is that from the eBay seller in Bulgaria?

Pity about the mismatched hands.

 

A different type of Omega with a 24-hour dial. Both are Louis Brandt (Omega) grade CCR models, 19-jewels, railroad standard pocket watches approved for railroad use in Canada. One is a private label for A Logan Jewellers that was in business in Greenwood, British Columbia about 120 years ago. A 24-hour dial. Greenwood is a stones throw north of the border of Washington, in the Okanagan Valley area.

The other likewise is a 24-hour dial, marked Louis Brandt & freres S A.

 

Minnesota, not the best feedback either

 

Thank you very much! But they are railway watches, no doubt made for a different purpose.

So I would like to bring the discussion back to my original question:

A watch that makes only one revolution of the hour hand in 24 hours is, of course, technically constructed differently.
Its purpose must have been to make it possible to read the time for people who had difficulty distinguishing between morning and afternoon.
(However, this raises the additional question of why the few examples from this period do not have radium numerals and hands).

So the watches could have originally been intended for submariners, pilots, spelunkers or participants in expeditions. Like polar explorers, for example - at the poles the sun doesn't show itself for half a year.

Astronauts and space travellers were of course out of the question at the time these Omega watches were made (around 1917)...

Interesting in this context is also this is another version - please see attached picture. This watch from Omega also indicated the points of the compass like a compass.

Do any of you here in the Omega forum have any further information?

 

@divetime
Interesting thread, thanks…can you tell me why the compass point are laid out that way, logically I would have thought North at 12.00 etc.?

 

to be honest I have no idea...

 

Well, probably because in the northern hemisphere, the sun is plain south at noon. At noon, on a sundial the shadow points towards the North (opposite to the sun) and if you point the hour hand of a watch towards the sun, it shows the South.
Just my 2 cents…

 

GREAT 2 cents! Thank you!

 

More Logical! Thanks.