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Incoming Odd Duck
Wanted to share my newest acquisition, the Omega Milestone 1941 Officers' chronograph. It's the ninth watch from Omega's ten piece museum collection run.
Don't think I've seen alot about this watch, or the museum collection in general. Meant to evoke military watches from the 1930s and 1940s, it features articulating lugs and telemetry and tachymeter scales. Cathedral hands and inky black dial add to the throwback look. The whole package is certainly unique.
It features calibre 2303, based on the Piget 1285. It's a manual wind chronograph using a column wheel and vertical clutch with a free sprung balance and of course a coaxial escapement.
Anyway, on to some quick pics.
Love it!
The museum collection kind of exists in its own world. This one happens to be my favourite, I love the dial, hinged lugs and olive pushers. Size is good too for a watch (modern or otherwise).
Lovely piece
Indeed the Museum line is in its own bubble. I assume some collectors have them all!
I have some nasty thoughts about this 1941: going to an artisan casemaker who could solder some normal lugs onto it... I am bad, I know
Haha, I had the thought as well
I ultimately love the articulating lugs and feel they are unique and kind of make the watch. But a part of me thinks this would be amazing with some cowhorn lugs.
Yours might be the first to make an appearance on this forum . . .
. . . but in the back of my mind there's a quiet voice saying someone else posted this Museum piece from '08(?) many years ago.
Here are pics I took at the Beverly Hills Omega boutique . . .
. . . just before it closed twelve years ago. (The BH Ω Boutique on Rodeo was reincarnated as a Tourbillon Boutique immediately afterwards.) I don't recall if I ever handled one, but assume it's pleasingly hefty on account of all that white gold.
Congrats on the acquisition!
Best,
Art
It's surprisingly heavy, haha
Even though it's white gold, it honestly feels like platinum. Sometimes I like it, but sometimes I wish it were a bit lighter for comfort.
Yes, it's meant to pay homage to 1930s officers' watches.
The chrono scales used here are telemetry and tachymeter. Meant to judge the distance of an object (say a tank firing a projectile) and the speed of an object.
A good pick up. Omega's museum collection is where a tiny number of its vast archive comes up for air. As recent releases suggest, they could also be regular runs. They'd be popular and do well.
