Omega’s Speedmaster Chronoscope Is Three Timers in One
Watchmakers have long sought to add additional, practical utilities to chronograph-equipped timepieces, most often in the form of scales on the dial or bezel that can be used in concert with the stopwatch function to make measurements. The most popular type of these is the tachymeter, a mainstay on popular chronographs like Omega’s legendary Speedmaster, followed by less widespread but still useful and attractive functions like telemeters and pulsimeters. Rarely if ever has a watch offered all three of these scales together, but Omega has now done so, quite masterfully, with its latest collection, the Speedmaster Chronoscope.
The name of the new collection is derived from the Greek words “chronos,” meaning time, and “scope,” meaning to observe, and pays tribute to vintage Omega chronograph watches from the 1940s with their spiral track patterns, snailed subdials, and leaf-shaped hands. The watches “observe time” on three distinct scales: the tachymeter scale on the bezel, which measures speed based on how far the wearer has travelled; the telemeter scale on the inner dial, which measures the wearer’s distance from a visible, audible event like a lightning strike; and the pulsimeter, also inscribed on the dial, which measures a heartbeat based on a 30-minute scale.
Omega is offering seven models total of the Speedmaster Chronoscope, all with 43-mm cases. Six of these cases are in stainless steel, with a mixture o...
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