it's a great day at SwissWatchExpo. I'm Tim and today we're going to talk about one of the
greatest race car drivers in History Michael Schumacher and their relationship with Omega
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so when we talk about a relationship with with a professional sports athlete we think about Michael
Schumacher and what he's done for the sports of Formula One he is truly again I'm going to say
it again he is the best Formula One racer that ever raced in the game and uh to his record he
has over 90 wins and seven World Championships and today we're going to look at a couple timepieces
that really showcase his winning streaks and his ability to become part of a an amazing partnership
with with another company during his time he had Partnerships with with other companies such as
AP with uh with us of course with Omega with Mercedes with Bugatti Ferrari and so the two
watches we're going to talk about today part of the Speedmaster series now when you when you
think about Speedmaster and you think about a mega originally in 1957 1958 it was made for race car
drivers it was the first time that they ever put the tachometer on the watch itself so it made it
easier for race car drivers to see the timepiece the how fast they were going in miles per hour
or kilometers per hour so when you think about a Speedmaster there's a few things you think about
you think about the tachometer it's always going to be on every speed master you're also going to
have a chronograph and a chronograph means right time or stopwatch when you have this it enables
the the driver or the pilot to to measure uh the the seconds the minutes and the hours with
the Speedmaster series you're going to have three types of crystals they're going to be a Plexiglass
a sapphire and hesalite now all of these are going to be what's called a box Crystal a box Crystal
has more of a geometric look to it really protects the dial very well most watches that you see out
there are going to have more of a domed which has a kind of a Ricochet effect when something hits
it but the Box really magnifies and then it's perfect for the Speedmaster series now the two
pieces we're going to look at to do we're going to have one celebrating the 2000 world championship
for Michael Schumacher and the other one's a 2002. so we're going to start with the first
one which is the 2001 edition which celebrated the 2000 world championship beautiful timepiece
if you look at the dial it has a gorgeous silver almost transparent look to the checkered flag on
the timepiece really celebrating that win for for Michael Schumacher and you're going to see
that the transparency of the dial really brings out part of the orange that you see going around
the timepiece too you're also going to see around the edge of the dial you're going to see the hash
marks that are are broken down into fractions of a second now whether you're a pilot whether you're
a race car driver measuring down a fraction of a second is very important and it kind of pays
homage to the Indianapolis uh 500 bricks just see going around now let's base that on the next watch
we're going to look at we're going to look at the model that was introduced back in 2003 now this
is the world championship 2002 model beautiful timepiece and if you look at the dial itself and
has a gorgeous black carbon fiber dial that really accentuates those uh numbers with the luminescence
and so forth you can see on the six o'clock bottom you'll see the black and white Checkered Flag
representing the racing of course but over at the nine o'clock side you're gonna see what's called a
24-hour indicator now the 24 hour indicator was great for when you do change the date because
a lot of times with with changing dates on on timepieces you have to start one day prior uh then
you're rotating the minute hand around so that the hour hand and you know the difference between
AM and PM here it gives you a 24 hour indicator so you can use the date corrector to change it
accurately and you don't have to go through the extra step of doing this it's a wonderful way of
doing it this is also a day-date model now with a day-to-date model you're going to see the longer
hand is going to be able to see the 1-31 on the dial so it has the accurate date of the day of
the month and up the top you're going to have a two window display that's going to have the day
and the month so if we're looking at the timepiece you look at the 12 o'clock sub down you'll have
the two date window now you have the the day of the week plus you're going to have the month now
I want to look closely and you'll see the day of the week is set on Sunday and did that on purpose
because that Sunday is red Sunday is always race day and also red represents Ferrari's colors so
it's a really cool design effect they put on this timepiece I love I love this limitation piece
let's talk about that both of these timepieces are going to be limited edition so if you turn
both of these timepieces over you're going to see the Michael Schumacher signature on the
timepiece plus you're going to have either your 2000 for the silver timepiece the 2000
world championship or 2002 for the carbon fiber you'll also have the limited edition number so if
you would like to add one of these pieces or both your collection contact us at SwissWatchExpo.com