Post by Houston on Nov 20, 2007 8:27:55 GMT -5
OMEGA 1930s FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH
Offered in Staybrite steel, this is one of the early flyback chronographs offered by OMEGA. A flyback is a complication which employs a single push of a button for simultaneously stopping, resetting and restarting the chronograph function of a watch.
Thus in this rare example while the button at two o’clock is used to start the chronograph, the co-axial button for the fly-back is located in the crown.
The white dial features Breguet numerals adjacent to an outer minute track bearing Arabic markers at 5-minute intervals and divisions to 1/5th of a second. Two counters are present. At the three o’clock position is a 30 minute totaliser and a subsidiary continuous seconds counter is located at nine o’clock. The fine Breguet hands in blued steel and the central chronograph seconds hand is highlighted in red.
The power source for this fine early flyback chronograph measuring 37.5mm in diameter and 13.7mm in depth is the seventeen-jewelled OMEGA Cal 33.3 with rhodium-plating, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance and Breguet balance spring. In its’ original guise, it was presented with a leather strap and signed OMEGA buckle.
Pictures – antiquorum.com
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