Rolex's Air-King, IWC's Pilot, Zenith's Pilot, and Breitling's NAVITIMER series are all very well-known. Only Omega lacks a powerful pilot watch. In fact, looking back in history, Omega has also launched such a watch, the "Flightmaster" series. Best cheap watches online, discover our affordable replica Omega watches collection. Wide range of luxury watches brands.
The historical Flightmaster series is positioned as a professional flight watch and was produced between 1969 and 1972. Designed by Frédéric Robert, it uses a 43*52 mm case and has chronograph and GMT functions. The Flymaster watch has two models: the early (145.036) and the later (145.013). The early version is equipped with the Omega 910 manual winding movement, with a 24-hour chronograph dial at 9 o'clock; the later version is replaced with the 911 manual winding movement, with a small seconds dial at 9 o'clock. The work uses a combination of bright colors, such as orange chronograph hands, blue GMT hands, and green 24-hour sub-dial (910 movement model), which enhances the efficiency of information acquisition and injects vitality into the work.
The color choice of the Omega Pilot Speedmaster Steel Chronograph watch is inspired by historical works to a certain extent. However, as a continuation of the "Speedmaster" rather than the "Flightmaster" series, this watch embodies many characteristics of the Speedmaster series, such as the 40.85 mm symmetrical case, aluminum tachymeter bezel, arched sapphire mirror, and bottom cover engraved with a seahorse pattern, which are inherited from the first generation Speedmaster watch in 1957.
It can be seen that the small second dial at 9 o'clock on the dial presents a blue "attitude meter" pattern; the chronograph dial at 3 o'clock has an orange scale, which is derived from the appearance design of the aircraft fuel gauge; the end of the chronograph second hand incorporates the shape of an aircraft, echoing the theme of the work. Luminous light is an indispensable and important function of a flight watch, which is conducive to pilots reading the time at night or when flying through clouds. Compared with the conventional Speedmaster series watches, this work has enlarged the luminous area of the hands and hour markers, and the hour and minute hands are in a wide sword shape, covered with Super-LumiNova luminous material.
Turning to the back, this work does not adopt a back-through design, but a stainless steel caseback engraved with a seahorse pattern, with 100 meters of water resistance marked below it. The watch is equipped with the Omega 9900 automatic chronograph movement. This movement debuted in 2016 and was first equipped with the Seamaster series Ocean Universe watch, and has now expanded to the Speedmaster series.
The Omega 9900 movement has a diameter of 32.5 mm, a frequency of 28,800 VPH, a silicon hairspring, a vertical clutch and a column wheel, and a 60-hour power reserve. The surface of the movement is rhodium-plated and polished with Geneva waves. Today, the "Master Chronometer Certification" of the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS) has become a hard indicator for Omega's movements. This certification is based on the Swiss Official Observatory (COSC) and has stricter standards than COSC, including the ability to withstand a strong magnetic field of 15,000 gauss and a daily error of no more than 5 seconds.
