Already Missing the 2020 Olympics" Here are 5 Limited-Edition Olympic Watches from Omega
In a move that seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago, yet all but inevitable a few days ago, The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2020 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Tokyo this coming July, would be postponed until 2021 due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Omega, official timekeeper of the Games, is one of the many Olympic sponsors affected, and we and the brand’s many fans await word on when the planned special-edition watches linked to the 2020 Games will emerge. Until then, here’s a roundup of five Omega watches with Olympic pedigree released over the past several years, celebrating the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and even an early model released in anticipation of the now-delayed Tokyo Games. The Omega Seamaster “Rio 2016” Limited Edition features stylistic touches that call out its connection to the Olympics on both the blue, perforated leather strap, with yellow, green, red, and black stitching that echoes the color of the iconic Olympic rings; and on the inner rotating bezel, where those same colors are used for the numerals at five-minute increments. The unusual case design is a callback to a chronograph Omega released in 1969, nicknamed ?Bullhead? for the odd shape of the case, with its top-mounted winding crown flanked by two big chronograph pushers. Like the original Bullhead watch, the Rio 2016 model has a central chronograph seconds hand ...
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