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[pacifico66]

Arnie today

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still

[Henry Krinkle]

P2150124 by Hank Blanc, on Flickr

[CFR]

Thanks for the info. And very nice watch indeed.

Thanks!

An attempt to break the monotony - too much time staying at home

[crownpuller]

still

Have you tried winding it and/or giving it a little twist ?

[watchdaddy1]

Watch swag

[watchdaddy1]

Good day, IWL

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Stay safe.



[Since I'm still at home with nothing important to do, here goes a comment or two about the Omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow automatic (ref.: 3851.20.12):

When Omega launched this model (2001) everybody easily understood their goal: to create a competitor to face the all mighty Rolex Daytona.

With that purpose in mind, Omega took the old Speedmaster design and turned it into a technological tour the force. A new movement (cal. 3303) based on the well-respected Frédérique Figuet cal. 1185 was created and the responsible for the project was Marc-André Miche, a former Rolex expert.

To achieve a longer power reserve (55H) and better stability, the original FP 1185 became larger (11 lignes versus 12 lignes) the barrel-drum received a gold coating and the movement winding efficiency was vastly improved. A larger balance was installed and an adjustment system roughly similar to the one used on the 2500 movements was included.

The Nivarox balance spring was made of a thermo-compensated Anachron alloy. To avoid the irregularities leading to poor isochronism, a free spiral balance spring was chosen.

Tested in 6 positions, the movement (rhodium plated, decorated with Geneva Waves, circular graining, polished flat screws and circularly polished wheels) easily got its COSC certification.

Double rings and special attention to the watch WR led to 100mWR without the need to implement screw down pushers or screw down crown. As a less common feature, the chronograph pushers can actually be used underwater; not sure how useful that really is, though.

The dial, with blue applied marks and large broad arrow hands, is a delight to read and, at least on this subject, clearly superior to the Rolex Daytona.

All was looking good, however, the future of this watch was not going to be particularly bright: a very well-known, respected collector and Omega enthusiast raised a few doubts about the reliability of the movement and,despite the statistically irrelevant sample evaluated, the cal. 3303, attacked by an ever growing social-media, started to have a bad reputation.

I don't know if Omega did any change to improve the movement reliability but, as far as I know, in general, the Broad Arrow was not more problematic than any other model.

Despite the later attempt followed by several well-known top watchmakers trying to objectively oppose verifiable facts to what was becoming a dubious myth, the damage was already done. As far as I'm concerned, I never had the slightest problem with my watch.

Again, all this 'noise' let the pre-eminence of the Rolex Daytona untouched. Omega didn't give up, but that's another story... ]

Good stuff C

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[watchdaddy1]

Longines ceramic.




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Longines is smashin" 'em outta the ballpark

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[watchdaddy1]

Snow this morning. Luckily not very much.

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Classy I ..Snow ?

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[watchdaddy1]

Bloody Casio Nostra mafiosi...

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