WRUW Today?

Uniqez · Jun 21, 2017

I found myself wearing this one a lot lately.

Which Watch Next · Jun 21, 2017

Need to set the date, but this is it today. Polished before me...🙁

Vulffi · Jun 21, 2017

On new clothes 😀

Uniqez · Jun 21, 2017

Jones in LA
I had never thought of myself as a collector...until I realized I was obsessed with acquiring this watch 😀

I've looked at it really quick and thought it was an Apple watch)))

Jones in LA · Jun 21, 2017

Uniqez
I've looked at it really quick and thought it was an Apple watch)))

Form-wise, it's not far off from an Apple watch 😀

And in its time it was pretty cutting-edge. Here's a fascinating article on the Marine Chronometer by the Forum's own @Bill Sohne

http://www.chronomaddox.com/omega_megaquartz_2400.html

Uniqez · Jun 21, 2017

Jones in LA
Form-wise, it's not far off from an Apple watch 😀

And in its time it was pretty cutting-edge. Here's a fascinating article on the Marine Chronometer by the Forum's own @Bill Sohne

http://www.chronomaddox.com/omega_megaquartz_2400.html

Cool article too, as cool, as watch is!

Wibbles · Jun 21, 2017

Jones in LA
And in its time it was pretty cutting-edge. l

Beyond cutting edge J in LA. An incredible application of technology and watchmaking IMHO. And still one of the most accurate personal timepieces you can wear. Outside of time radio signal vanishingly few watches could match it. Plus at the time your watch was crazy money. Like you could buy ten Rolex Subs for the price crazy money. Omega's contribution to that period of quartz timekeeping innovation is unmatched in the industry anywhere in the world.

And sadly too often forgotten. Including by Omega themselves. Check out their history timeline on their official website and you'll find your watch, but they don't even mention the Q word. Or any of their other innovations of that time. I understand the marketing aspect of it all, because quartz is now seen as "cheap and nasty" and below "real" horology, but that's a real pity IMHO.