Omega’s year-long celebration of its iconic Speedmaster’s 60th anniversary, which began at Baselworld 2017, continues next week at WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch event, as the brand presents, among other new models for 2017, its Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer.
Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer
The Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer is the latest Speedmaster to meet the criteria of Omega?s demanding Master Chronometer certification, subjected to a battery of precision, performance, and magnetic resistance tests first applied to the Globemaster model introduced in 2015.  It also resurrects on its dial a vintage-look, motorsports-inspired minute track that first appeared on a 1968 Speedmaster. (A year or so later, after an Omega Speedmaster accompanied astronauts on the first lunar landing, the watch?s motor racing design heritage would be largely supplanted by its new identity as the ?Moonwatch.?) The watch has a matte black dial and a 44.25-mm stainless steel case that is slightly thinner than those of previous models because of a newly retooled sapphire crystal. The watch is the first in the Racing series equipped with a Master Chronometer movement.
Among the dial?s other notable features are its orange highlights; 18k white-gold beveled arrowhead hour indices, filled with white Super-LumiNova; and slightly expanded subdials (chronograph hours/minutes counter at 3 ?clock, small seconds at 9 o?clock) for...