Up for sale: a 1948 Omega Chronometre - 75 years and running strong!
Case: Steel, not polished in my possession, looks sharp. 34mm without crown. 18mm lug width, drilled lugs. Dial:Original, with patina. A small dent at 9. Original lume. Hands: Original, relumed in 2020, as the original lume had deteriorated. Crown: clover crown, original to my knowledge. Crystal: generic replacement. Movement:
Rare cal. 343 with RG regulator and special finish. Running well, see timegrapher shot and power reserve tomorrow.
Last service in 2020 at Lars C. Hansen, Denmark. Strap/buckle: Genuine alligator strap and original Ω buckle with uncommon shallow Ω logo. Price: 750 €. Watch is located in Denmark. No returns. As always, I am open to offers.
Desmond Guilfoyle (@mondodec) describes the movement: The Calibre 343 “luxury Finish” chronometer movement, of which only 5000 pieces were produced, was used in the second production of case 2499 Centenary models as well as Seamaster and Automatic chronometers. Calibre 343 was the first 28.10 to feature what is commonly described as an RG regulator, an import from the famous 30 T2 RG hand wound chronometer series. This regulator, combined with a particular regime of cosmetic finish, higher levels of functional finish, topmost quality control on parts used and adjustment to chronometer standard forms the basis of the ‘Luxury Finish’ definition.
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Founded at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 by 23-year-old Louis Brandt who assembled key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen. He travelled throughout Europe selling his watches from Italy to Scandinavia by way of England, his chief market. After Louis Brandt's death in 1879, his two sons Louis-Paul and Cesar, troubled by irregular deliveries of questionable quality, abandoned the unsatisfactory assembly workshop system in favour of in-house manufacturing and total production control. Due to the greater supply of manpower, communications and energy in Bienne, the enterprise moved into a small factory in January 1880, then bought the entire building in December. Two years later the company moved into a converted spinning-factory in the Gurzelen district of Bienne, where headquarters are still situated today. Their first series-produced calibres, Labrador and Gurzelen, as well as, the famous Omega calibre of 1894, would ensure the brand's marketing success.
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