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In the mid-1990s, I studied in Japan, and because I didn't have any friends, I had to rely on books to spend my spare time. At first, I went to the Osaka Municipal Library to read Chinese books, borrowed many books every time, almost read all the Chinese books, and finally I even started reading chess and "barefoot doctors".
Later, I was a little extravagant and began to spend money to rent videotapes and watch movies, and Akira Kurosawa watched the "complete works". Later, I started going to bookstores and buying some magazines for my pastime. At that time, the Japanese watch market was taking off, and Japanese watch magazines were also filled with the main positions of bookstores.
Japanese watch magazines are very different from our domestic pattern from the beginning, they really rely on selling books to make money, not on brand advertising, and their content is taken from the watch store, not from the watch brand side.
I am not a ye gong good dragon person, looking at it, I began to like watches, I want to have. And my goal is OMEGA's Super Master. I like this watch because the magazine introduces a lot of words such as moon landing, chronograph, classic, etc. that attracted me. And in the subway, you can often see commuter suits and leather shoes wearing this watch, and I think even with the suit, it is very stylish.
But as a student party, I didn't have the ability to buy new watches, and by writing articles to the Chinese Herald (a Chinese newspaper published in Japan and aimed at Chinese) disguised as middle-aged people thinking, I had a thin fee, and in a slum, probably not as big as a bathroom, in a super-mini watch store, I had my first watch, a second-hand Supermaster. I cherish it very much and wear it on my right hand because I am left-handed and it is easy to accidentally scratch when I wear it on my left hand.
Before long, I couldn't stand the oppressive feeling of Japan, fled back to China, hid in Beijing Songzhuang, read books, and wrote novels. As a sullen representative, my hobby is motorcycles in addition to writing. The kind that's extremely fast. One day on the road, a man magically emerged at some strange intersection, and although I had done my best to crash myself into the side of the road and dodge the girl, I still swept her.
Next, go to the hospital and do a check-up, and I am a nibbling old man, and it is expensive to see a doctor. A few poor painters who were playing together learned that I had a stall, so they raised money for me, the largest ticket was of course a hundred, but the smallest ticket actually had a piece of paper money. I sat on the edge of the bed with a pile of bills of varying denominations with body temperature and wept. I didn't dare ask my family for money, saying that I had hit people on my bike, and they had always been very opposed to my cycling. I couldn't open that mouth. The days still have to pass, and I am forced to be helpless, so I took the SuperMaster in my hand and sold it for money to mix my life.
That Super Master became an irreparable pain in my life. And the inseparable feelings for OMEGA began at that time. There are many special moments in my life when OMEGA (Omega) is present. OMEGA's limited edition table I now only choose two limit numbers, 1118, or 325. The former is my birthday, the latter is the day my baby Shuk died...
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OMEGA's Cal.321 replica movement, mounted on the Speedmaster series, does not know what the watch looks like, does not know the limited number, I have ordered one with my eyes closed
Not long ago, I did a very wayward thing in my life, I heard that OMEGA's Cal.321 movement was reproduced, and I and Lao Zhang and I chose the number of each person. In the case of not knowing what the watch looks like, not knowing the limited quantity, and not knowing the price, I have no hesitation and ordered three watches, which is a witness to our friendship. Because, we have an unwavering and absolute trust in the level of OMEGA: the Speedmaster × Calibre Cal.321, which can be bought with eyes closed and must be bought with eyes closed. Besides, what is the value of today's antique Speedmaster equipped with Cal.321, and those who are familiar with the auction still have points in their hearts, right?
At the price of OMEGA (Omega) can do a good job of the movement of the brand is very few, this time more powerful, directly reproduce the antique movement, I think this is OMEGA (Omega) the king of fried. This trick is really invincible crushing.
In history, OMEGA (Omega) has too many indispensable movements, Cal.321 is the most famous manual chronograph movement, at the beginning of the world, invincible. At the same time, there is also a 30mm manual movement that the Japanese worship as a god, which the Japanese call the "hand roll king", and the 30mm diameter observatory manual movement is also to defeat the invincible hand in the world, as well as the bumper. Wait a minute. If OMEGA (Omega) is reproduced one by one, it can really become a brand new product line, telling those old brothers to re-emerge.
Cal.321 is divided into several generations, the moon landing SuperMana is only the second generation, from the "old paper pile" to find the drawings of the second generation of Cal.321, every detail is exactly the same as the antique movement, including the pendulum frequency is 18,000 that year. At the scene, the media of other countries asked, such a low swing frequency, the accuracy of the time will reach the current ultra-high requirements of OMEGA (Omega)?
The answer is yes. Although it is a replica movement, the workshop for processing the movement is not an antique, but the world's most advanced CNC, and the accuracy of the parts can be achieved super high, so the accuracy is not a problem.
Not only does the accuracy of the parts exceed the original, but it is also a new way in the surface treatment of the splint: cal.321 of that year was made of red copper splint, the surface was not rhodium-plated, although the color looked very chic, but after a long time, the surface would oxidize. Although the newly engraved Cal.321 also looks like red copper, this layer of red copper is plated, in other words, the splint is not naked red copper but PVD treatment, to ensure that the surface does not oxidize with time, beauty and strength coexist.
The replica Cal.321 calibre has an annual output of about 1,000 pieces, and a dedicated team is fully responsible for the production and manufacture of the new movement. With an annual output of a thousand movements, it is an absolute rarity for a brand of magnitude such as OMEGA.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the human landing on the moon and the 50th anniversary of the OMEGA lunar landing, and the restart of the Cal.321 movement is really exciting and exciting, and it is said that it will be launched in the middle of the year. The sea of watches has been ups and downs for more than ten years, and there are not many watches that can make me so moved.
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My original main business was to read novels and write novels, and Christian Gay once described a cellist in the novel: "Gradually and slowly, the technique is gradually and slowly restored, the self-confidence is restored, the fear is hidden from time to time, and finally it disappears, and what he loses, what he thinks he has lost, what he is sure to lose, is displayed before his eyes..." This is my rare, memorized passage, very divine. In fact, the best thing in life is not what you once had, but what you lost and regained.
The reproduction of cal.321 is only a prelude, and the real rare masterpiece is a pocket watch with a 19-degree movement limited to 19 pieces.
Louis Brandt, the founder of OMEGA,founded a watchmaking workshop in 1848, and half a century later, in 1894, his two sons Louis-Paul and César designed and manufactured a 19-point pocket watch movement and named it Omega, symbolizing "perfection, achievement and excellence", this movement because of its excellent design structure and its precision and durability, also won the accurate chronograph certificate issued by several European observatories, for this, in 1903, The brothers simply changed the company name to OMEGA.
In 1894, louis-paul and César, the two sons of the founder of the brand, designed and manufactured a 19-legal pocket watch movement and named it OMEGA
Omega Museum collection of 19 fascircude movement parts
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the brand name, I went to Biel, Switzerland, where the brand is headquartered, to participate in this launch feast, which was held at the Omega Museum.
OMEGA this year unveiled 19 19-division movement replica pocket watches to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the brand name
It has to be said that the brothers had a very good idea at that time, because the SKUs of the watchmaking industry at that time were not as complicated as they are today, so the movement number was often directly used as the diameter size of the movement as its code (Cal.321's sister movement LEMANIA CH27, that 27 is actually the diameter of the movement, 27mm). Many brands also use this tradition to this day. The legal division, Chinese also has a direct transliteration of "order", is actually a data unit, 1 legal point is equivalent to 2.255mm, 19 legal points is equivalent to 42.8mm.
The 19 19-fas pocket watch, unlike the Cal.321, was not re-produced, but instead a batch of original 19-fax movement parts were removed from the museum's collection, including the main splint, splint, escapement and bimetal truncated balance wheel and the blue steel Breguet springspring, which were polished and refurbished by the super master of the tourbillon workshop. Because the 19-centimeter movement is particularly popular in the American market, the cleat of the movement particularly outlines the Damascus pattern that the American market liked at that time, and its manufacturing method is not traditional engraving, but more like a drill cut out, and the texture layer is extremely rich. In addition, the fine-tuning part is fine-tuned with snails, which is not only reassembled, but also improved as a whole compared to the original work of the 1900s.
Historical poster of the OMEGA 19-fascient movement and an antique pocket watch with 19-fam movement
The most amazing thing about this pocket watch is that it has innovated the original structure of the pocket watch: the general pocket watch, the ring in the position of the watch handle is useless except for a chain. The front cover of the pocket watch needs to be pressed on the main handle to bounce off. The back cover of the pocket watch can only be opened if you cut it with your fingernails. But this pocket watch has never done the function of this ring, pressing this ring, left or right, you can open the front and back covers. The advantage of this is that the table handle is completely turned into a table handle, which is only used to adjust the time and winding, without the burden of opening the front cover of the watch, and achieves a more accurate time adjustment result.
The small three-pin dial, the layout of the dial, the design of the scale and the shape of the logo are all in accordance with the form of the 1900s, which is extremely quaint. The case is made of two-tone gold, and the sides of the case are decorated with enamel. The half-hunting watch shape means that the front cover is not completely sealed, but the middle part is transparent, even if you do not open the front cover, you can see the time. And the inside of the front lid of this pocket watch is engraved with 24 city names – although this is only a decoration and does not have the function of universal time.
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Not only did I like to drink, but I was hesitant to buy this Burgundy red as well. It is another hand-held movement of the big three-needle watch launched to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the brand name. Fingers crossed, I don't even have a watch with a red dial.
OMEGA also unveiled a disc flying classic watch for the 125th anniversary of the brand name, equipped with the Cal .8929 hand-wound chronometer movement, engraved with the 125th anniversary badge engraved on the base
First of all, its red enamel dial is stunning, Burgundy red, which means red, but not the overly intense crimson of Bordeaux, but with a certain light elegance. Enamel is not made on a metal placenta, but is fired with enamel paint on a piece of ceramic. According to reports, the brand has tried many times to find that the enamel color burned by superimposing color on the ceramic piece is the most beautiful. It is not painted once and burned once, but after many iterations, the color can reach the standard. After the color reaches the standard, it is not counted, but also the K gold logo and small characters on the plate surface are placed on the dial, and finally the outer ring scale is made. And this set of enamel process is also completely homemade by OMEGA (Omega).
Secondly, this is the first manual OMEGA,Omega calibre, known as the 8929 calibre. It should be noted that the current manual big three-needle watch is actually very, very, very scarce. All the major brands are counted, and I can responsibly tell you that there are no more than five. And the manual large three-needle volume of the enamel dial is sold, as far as I don't know very limited, the whole universe is such a model.
Finally, it is not a transparent back cover, but a metal back cover, Damascus grain, and enamel. The toughest thing is that it's paired with my favourite pin buckle, paired with a double-sided alligator leather strap in Burgundy red, and is definitely the most luxurious and traditional design. In fact, if it is a K gold back cover, and then a sapphire crystal transparent back cover double combination, it is perfect.
As for why it is red? Red is the main theme of OMEGA(omega)...
2019, do I want to be red?
think.
OMEGA Disc Fly Classic Series 125th Anniversary Commemorative Watch
Diameter 40mm / 18-carat yellow gold case / Red enamel dial / Hours, minutes and seconds display / Cal.8929 hand-wound to the best chronometer movement / Burgundy red alligator leather strap