Saturday, January 28, 2023

OMEGA – Speedmaster Super Racing Co‑Axial Master Chronograph 2023


OMEGASpeedmaster Super Racing Co‑Axial Master Chronometer Chronograph 44.252023

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From record-breaking deep-sea dives to lunar landings, OMEGA’s legacy is replete with large-scale accomplishments. The first of this year’s big achievements is in fact rather tiny.

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OMEGA’s latest Speedmaster is fine-tuned for precision thanks to the Spirate™ System, which includes a revolutionary new pat - ent-pending spiral that allows for ultra-fine rate adjustments. 

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Thanks to this one-ofa-kind mechanism, it is now possible for OMEGA to achieve certified precision of only 0/+2 seconds a day.

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To meet these narrow targets, OMEGA had to quite literally reinvent the wheel: drawing on both the technical resources of the Swatch Group and the precision, stability and reliabity of OMEGA’s chronometrically superior in-house movements.

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The innovative solution was a totally new Si14 balance spring, which allows the watchmaker to act on the stiffness of the hairspring’s attachment point through an eccentric adjustment mechanism located on the balance bridge.

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This new approach, based on the design of a high precision articulated structure with flexible bearings, is a superb example of OMEGA’s willingness to run with new ideas: to make progress by taking on challenges.

The Speedmaster Super Racing

The first timepiece to include OMEGA’s fine-tune Spirate™ System is the Speedmaster Super Racing in stainless steel. 

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A visual tribute to OMEGA’s 2013 anti-magnetic masterpiece which offers a clear view of the new mechanism through the sapphire crystal caseback.

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Circling the dial is the distinctive racing style minute-track and a black ceramic bezel ring with the famous tachymeter scale in new yellow “grand feu” enamel. 

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This bold yellow shade, featured on the Seamaster Aqua Terra >15’000 GAUSS of 2013, is also used on the gradient chronograph hand and striped small seconds hand at 9 o’clock. 

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The watch’s 60 minute/12 hour recorder, directly opposite at 3 o’clock, also serves as a second time zone. The honeycomb pattern of the dial references a concept timepiece on display at OMEGA Museum which survived extreme magnetic fields of 160,000 GAUSS.

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Providing the power is OMEGA’s stateof-the-art Co-Axial Master Chronometer 9920, a perfect amalgamation of the many milestones on the road to Spirate™ and certified at the industry’s highest level by the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS). 

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As always, proof of this certification is provided by a distinctive red METAS card, which in this case includes confirmation of the 0/+2 seconds a day precision made possible at large scale by the industrialisa - tion of the Spirate™ System.

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The diamond-polished and bevelled black arrowhead indexes are filled with a new and exclusive Super-LumiNova which emits a surprising yellow glow. This colour code extends to the Speedmaster and Super Racing wording on the dial.

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At 6 o’clock there’s a stylish and regular reminder of the >15’000 GAUSS 10 yearanniversary: a “10” in Speedmaster logo font, which appears once a month in the watch’s date window.

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The new Speedmaster Super Racing includes a sporty alternative to the steel bracelet. A NATO strap in recycled nylon with black and yellow stripes, referencing the distinctive colour code of the Seamaster Aqua Terra >15’000 GAUSS launched exactly 10 years ago.

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Off-the-wrist home for OMEGA’s collectable is a honeycomb pattern Speedmaster watch box in black with yellow stitching. 

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The special presentation box includes the recycled nylon NATO strap and a strap changing tool.

Spirate™ set to spin into the future

As the spiral is the most complex component of the regulating organ in a mechanical watch, creating the new Spirate™ System was a significant challenge. Therefore, OMEGA is determined to make the best of this hard-won innovation. 

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The brand’s long-term plan is to introduce the new Spirate™ System step-by step into many other calibres. The tiny spiral has a big future. Stay tuned! 

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Technical Specifications

Collection: Speedmaster

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Model: Speedmaster Super Racing Co‑Axial Master Chronometer Chronograph 44.25 m

 Reference: 329.30.44.51.01.003  

Movement

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  Calibre: OMEGA 9920 Self-winding chronograph with column wheel and CoAxial escapement.
    Certified Master Chronometer, approved by METAS, resistant to magnetic fields reaching 15,000 gauss.
    Spirate™ System for fine rate adjustment, 2 barrels mounted in series, time zone function.
    Central hour, minute and chronograph seconds hands, small seconds hand, 12-hour and 60-minute recorders.
    Rhodium plated finish with Geneva waves in arabesque.
    Power reserve of 60 hours

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Functions/Indications
    Hours, minutes, seconds
    Chronograph
    Date
    Tachymeter
Case
    Material: Stainless steel
    Diameter: 44.25 mm
    Thickness: 14.9 mm
    Between lugs: 21 mm
    Glass: Scratch‑resistant sapphire crystal with anti‑reflective treatment on both sides
    Transparent case back
    Water-resistant to 50 meters (5 bar / 167 feet)
Dial and hands
    Black, honeycomb pattern
    Applied indexes
Strap and buckle
    Steel bracelet
    Foldover butterfly clasp with comfort setting

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 Availability: Special presentation BOX

Price: retail price  CHF 10'200 / 10.970,00 ( Recommended retail price (incl. VAT)
All OMEGA timepieces have a 5-year warranty.

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