Prototype Omega Phillips Auction

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A speedmaster with a date is great to see. If only these had made it into production.

The flightmaster prototype would make a great watch now...a Fratello edition for example.
 
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A speedmaster with a date is great to see. If only these had made it into production.

The flightmaster prototype would make a great watch now...a Fratello edition for example.
They did, they made them for several years both with and without date using that movement.

It’s weird that you don’t see them at all anymore though, there was a time when they were common but I haven’t seen one posted here in ages.
 
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They did, they made them for several years both with and without date using that movement.

It’s weird that you don’t see them at all anymore though, there was a time when they were common but I haven’t seen one posted here in ages.
Thanks. I will go hunting. Somehow these escaped me.
 
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Flightmaster prototype to CHF 110 + commission
Alaska prototype to CHF 160 + commission
 
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Flightmaster prototype to CHF 110 + commission
Alaska prototype to CHF 160 + commission
Wow
 
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Yea I mean its rare but its not historically significant or anything, just an evolutionary leftover of a line that subsequently died out due to lack of popularity.
 
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i agree thaht historically not as interesting as a prototype version of a manual moonwatch,

on the other hand for the rest I do not agree, it is the first integration of the piguet 1185 at Omega,
movement that we have known under the references 3301/ 3303 / 3330 and which still exists in the catalog today,
so we are talking about more 20 years of presence it is not nothing....
there was a lot of speedies racing / broad arrow / mark 2 with it inside

https://www.omegawatches.com/fr-fr/...ter-chronograph-42-4-x-46-2-mm-32720435001001
 
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i agree thaht historically not as interesting as a prototype version of a manual moonwatch,

on the other hand for the rest I do not agree, it is the first integration of the piguet 1185 at Omega,
movement that we have known under the references 3301/ 3303 / 3330 and which still exists in the catalog today,
so we are talking about more 20 years of presence it is not nothing....
there was a lot of speedies racing / broad arrow / mark 2 with it inside

https://www.omegawatches.com/fr-fr/...ter-chronograph-42-4-x-46-2-mm-32720435001001

No, the Cal. 3330 has nothing to do with F. Piguet. It is an ETA 7750 based movement.

I don't think there are any F. Piguet based chronographs left in the Omega catalogue at this point...
 
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No, the Cal. 3330 has nothing to do with F. Piguet. It is an ETA 7750 based movement.

I don't think there are any F. Piguet based chronographs left in the Omega catalogue at this point...
Tried to figure that question out a couple of weeks ago, there’s one left and its a De Ville Prestige chronograph that was only ever sold in China and has a Bullhead movement in it for some weird reason. I was surprised when there still was one and even more so when it was a watch I’d never heard of or seen that looks so odd, but it’s still actively being sold.

This is it:
https://shop41314948.m.youzan.com/wscgoods/detail/2xbngpz27qy0c

 
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Tried to figure that question out a couple of weeks ago, there’s one left and its a De Ville Prestige chronograph that was only ever sold in China and has a Bullhead movement in it for some weird reason. I was surprised when there still was one and even more so when it was a watch I’d never heard of or seen that looks so odd, but it’s still actively being sold.

This is it:
https://shop41314948.m.youzan.com/wscgoods/detail/2xbngpz27qy0c


The movement is a Cal. 3113 - no not a typo, so not a 3313, but 3113. It's a two register version of the 3313.

The technical guide indicates that the first version of the movement was sometime around 2012.

I guess if there was still one in the catalogue, it was going to be some oddball watch that isn't really mainstream...
 
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tu as totalement tort

3301 est un piguet 1185 avec des changements pour omega nommé 1285 et rebaptisé 330x pour les versions standard et [3330] 3313 pour les versions co axial

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you re totally wrong

3301 is a piguet 1185 with changes for omega named 1285 and rebranded 330x for stra'fard versions and 333x for co axial versions

I'll let Omega know that you have determined that all their technical documentation, and the information they gave when I went to Omega for training, was completely wrong then.

Here's some photos from that training...









Thanks so much for clearing this up for me, and Omega, who clearly have no idea about their own products, and are incorrectly training watchmakers all over the world...

::facepalm1::
 
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you re totally wrong

3301 is a piguet 1185 with changes for omega named 1285 and rebranded 330x for stra'fard versions and 333x for co axial versions
Ariel is that you?
 
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Ariel is that you?

Ha! You have no idea how much time I've spent on forums informing the misinformed that the 3330 is 7750 based, because of that guy...
 
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That was nice to see strong bids on 2998 on the same auction. That one was really nice one!
 
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No, the Cal. 3330 has nothing to do with F. Piguet. It is an ETA 7750 based movement.

I don't think there are any F. Piguet based chronographs left in the Omega catalogue at this point...

sorry the misunderstanding comes from my side,
i did not want to speak about the 3330 but the 3313,
i did not see my typing error , note that from de begining i talked about the piguet 1285 family 😉
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