Welcome back to Taking Time. I'm Jonathan, and I've got something here that
is probably gonna put the Rolex Datejust, you know,
just completely out of the catalog in the coming years. Stick around. I'm gonna talk about it.
So this watch was released in 2015. This is a 2020 piece by the way. But the Omega Constellation
Globemaster came out in 2015s. So what exactly is that? Well, it's a little bit of an oddity in
the watch world. It's not sports watch. It's not quite a dress watch. It's kind of a little bit of
an elevation above all that. So what this is is it comes from the Constellation line of Omega's,
you know, kind of dressy, elevated, not really a sports watch kind of thing. And they introduced
what's called the Globemaster where essentially in 2015, they introduced this beautiful
8900 series movement. And it's the first time that Omega came out publicly with the METAS
certification. And that is really cool because that kind of makes this watch like a super watch.
So the standard rating system for watches being accurate is called a chronometer certification.
And that is a - testing. It's, I think, 14 to 20 days, depending on what, you know, they want
to get done. And they test the movement in a variety of different ways. And then, you know,
that's all done outside of the case and then they ship the movement back to the manufacturer.
The manufacturer packages up the watch and sells it to you. Omega does something extra.
That's where the METAS certification comes in. So they take the chronometer certification,
they get the movement back, and then they do another six-round testing where they're testing
the watch running underwater, they're testing the watch running
up to 15,000 gausses on anti-magnetics. It's kind of a complex scientific thing. I won't go
too much into it, but essentially it's very damaging to the watch
if it doesn't have this sort of rating system and then they test it after it's been zapped with
15,000 gausses of, you know, magnetism. And at that, you know, they're testing this watch for
accuracy up to, I think, it's plus five seconds. If it goes anywhere past that the watch gets
thrown out. So they have to invest, you know, millions of dollars in making a new watch, which
makes this watch absolutely insane. Add to that, this is the first time that also Omega released
this beautiful rose gold and this two-one rose gold in Sedna rose gold. It's a new combination
of, it's a lot more, it's got a lot more copper in it. So it's really, really different compared to
anything else. And then they've got the beautiful, classic pie pan style dial,
which if you kind of look at it really close, kind of looks like you're staring down at a pie.
That's why they kind of call it the pie pan style. So it really hearkens back to,
you know, the 1950s, whenever the Constellation was really kind of like the head leader for Omega,
as far as the standardization of, you know, accuracy along with elegance
and all of that. So this is the only one that we got and we got this just in stock with the
box in the papers. So go to SwissWatchExpo.com or give me a call. I'd love to talk to you
about it and yeah, do the usual. Like, subscribe and, we'll talk to you later.