With Omega having served as the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games since 1932, the bond between the world’s foremost athletic competition and the Swiss manufacture runs deep. For the better half of its tenure as official timekeeper, Omega has released special edition timepieces to mark the occasion, resulting in wild and wacky sleeper hits like the 1976 Seamaster Chrono-Quartz Montreal Olympics Albatross which features both an analog and digital display and the classic 2007 Omega Limited Edition Pocket Watch which commemorates the original stopwatches used to time the events of the 1932 Olympic Games.
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While last year’s two-tone stainless steel and moonshine gold Seamaster Diver 300M Paris 2024 was nice enough, yet relatively unnoteworthy, Omega has more than made up for it with the release of the Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024.
Omega introduced the Speedmaster Chronoscope in 2021, with its bicompax layout and ‘snailed’ dial design throwing it back to the designs of the 1930s and ‘40s. Here, the 43mm stainless steel or moonshine gold newcomers see a white opaline dial play host to black snailed subdials; with running seconds at 9 o’clock and a second time zone at 3 o’clock.
At the centre of the dial are three 1940s inspired dark grey timing scales comprising a tachymeter display (to measure speed based on distance), a pulsometer scale (for measuring a person’s heart rate), and a telemeter scale (used to measure distance based on sound). Applied gold Arabic numerals are used for the hour markers, matching the leaf-shaped central hours and minutes hands. A black ceramic (moonshine gold) or aluminium (stainless steel) bezel features (another) tachymeter scale), with both the stainless steel and moonshine gold timepieces presented on a three-link bracelet.
Flip it over and you’ll find the words ‘Paris 2024’ engraved on the closed caseback, flanked by both the Paris 2024 and Olympics logos.
Powering the Omega Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024 is the hand-wound calibre 9908/9909 which employs a column wheel and vertical clutch. Beating at 4Hz, it has a co-axial escapement, anti-magnetic parts, and is Master Chronometer certified — a necessity for keeping track of athletic endeavours.
The Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024 is available in stainless steel on a black leather strap ($15,725AUD) or bracelet ($16,725) or moonshine gold on a black leather strap ($54,325AUD) or bracelet ($85,350AUD).
Words by Theo Rosen
