fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. we've got three
Omega Speedmasters. these basically able to time just about anything you could possibly want to
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so when it comes to manual winding chronographs from Omega the first thing your mind is going
to go to is the moonwatch and rightfully so it's their most popular arguably their most
iconic watch in the entire history of the brand but they did for the longest time make what was
called Chronoscope Speedmasters which they are brought back and we have three beautiful examples
of now and this is a very unique chronograph with an incredibly hectic and busy dial that's the one
thing that all three of these have in common because of all the three different things that
it is meant to time and we have three beautiful examples here they all share a pretty similar
design and that's sort of just by necessity of what this watch does so the first thing you'll
notice so much going on on this style this is a pretty large 43-millimeter case so it's actually
a bit larger and a good bit thicker than the own watch is as well and you'll see that's rightfully
so because if they made this watch any smaller at all it would be impossible to read and in fact a
lot of people will probably find this watch very hard to read so this is definitely an incredibly
practical chronograph that's meant to time a number of different things so what makes it a
Chronoscope is that most chronographs that you see will have a tachymeter bezel or possibly a
ring around the inside of the dial and that is used to measure speed mostly and that's
going to be the most common thing that people with chronographs measure it's traditionally a
racing watch and so speed tends to be the thing that you are most concerned about but what makes
the Chronoscope different is that we have two other rings inside of here which will measure
different things as well we have a telemeter and I'm sorry I'm spacing on what the last one was
called the telemeter and the pulsometer that's right so the telemeter is another ring on the
outside the furthest on the center of the dial and that is meant to measure distance as opposed to
speed so the distance between two things when the chronograph is running and and then the pulsometer
around the closest to the center part of the ring now that is meant to measure heartbeat it
was traditionally used by doctors and so some old school doctors watches you'll see from way
back in the day would have only this scale on the dial because that was the only thing a doctor ever
really needed to know while they were doing their job uh so practically and I feel this way about
most chronographs unless you happen to do these things for a living it's probably not something
you're going to get a lot of practical use about I feel the same way about my chronographs but they
look absolutely stunning and realistically I think that's why most of us buy them so let's talk about
the aesthetics of this beautiful piece this one here I think is going to be the most plain this
is going to have a silver dial on a steel case but I love the blue accents here on the dial you
do get Arabic numerals around the outside which I think is kind of it might be a bit of a choice
here because that does make the dial busier than it would have been if they had used something a
little smaller or a little more subtle because you'll see these three different scales we have
in the center are actually overlapping with these sub-dial registers here on the dial we
only have two we have the 60-second hand and then we do have the 12 hour counter here at
at 3 o'clock that's going to be the one thing another thing that all three of these have in
common and that's going to be something that I think is traditional to the chronoscope in
general and then two others that we have here this is basically the inverse version of that
or the reverse version of this dial with an all blue dial with the silver scales in the middle
Arabic numerals hands all made silvered as well I'm a little torn as to which one I find easier
to read they're all pretty jumbled but I think you would have to train yourself to sort of use
these interior scales here if you were planning on using this watch for a practical purpose and
then finally one last one here which might be my favorite color combination of all three because
this is where you get the most variety we had silver with red and black so the sub-dials here
are black in addition to the Arabic numerals but then they made the inter inner ring of this
chronoscope scale red which I did think would be necessary it would be impossible possible
to see the overlapping part with the sub-dial and again I do love all the extra colors you
get also the chronograph hand here in the middle is a combination of red and silver which I think
is really unique and not something I see on a lot of chronographs so I really really love
this and now to go into the rest of the design as opposed to just the dial again the case is
a bit thicker although definitely reminiscent of a modern Moonwatch case. the crystal is actually
raised a bit more and this is a sapphire crystal just so you'll know that this is different from
a moon watch traditionally in that regard you do get an exhibition caseback with all of these this
movement a caliber 9908 is a manual winding Co-Axial movement and you'll see it's mostly
bridge here but this is a beautiful design on the back and they do expose a lot of the jewels here
so you don't get a lot of the inner working visible here but I think this is a beautiful
exhibition caseback movement even if it's not one you would traditionally maybe go for if you wanted
to kind of see the movement in action this one doesn't really do that but it is beautiful all
the same and then this has a newer style bracelet here from Omega a bit controversial with some of
the people I speak with but this is going to be the same bracelet that's on the new Moonwatch
it's much thinner does it really feel quite as sturdy as some of the other ones do but I
am sure they did not make a weaker bracelet than that however it does feel a little bit
lighter because of the thinness there and that is something that a lot of people have had a
little have taken a little bit to get used to but I still think this is a very well made incredibly
well constructed bracelet just like the rest of this watch just like any piece you would expect
Omega that's making in 2022 and we've got all three of these versions of the Chronoscope here so
if you're looking for a really unique addition to your chronograph collection or even if this isn't
for you and you're looking for something that's a lot easier to read we have a lot of that too
in a variety of brands even if Omega doesn't suit your fancy even though I may try and convince you
otherwise but give us a call shoot us an email and check out our new arrivals we've got a lot
we're still posting before the Christmas holiday and a lot after I promise we're not going to run
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