Omega Museum Collection watches

The Omega Museum Collection is a numbered series of Omega watches that carry a year in their names: the steel N° 1 "Pilots 1938", the red gold N° 2 "Cosmic" 1951, the N° 3 "Officers 1945", the small 32.5 mm N° 4 "Petrograd" 1915 and the N° 6 "Tonneau Renversé" 1952 in white and red gold, up to the N° 10 "The MD's Watch 1938". The 40.2 mm Pilots 1938 Aquarella versions have mother-of-pearl dials, each named for its stones.

Two pieces have a documented original. The First Omega Wrist-Chronograph (516.52.48.30.04.001) revives the wrist chronograph Omega produced in 1913, many of which went to the Royal Flying Corps. Omega found 18 antique 18''' CHRO calibres, refurbished them in its Atelier Tourbillon and cased them in 47.5 mm white gold with a Sedna gold crown and pusher and a grand feu enamel dial: a hand-wound monopusher chronograph in 18 pieces. The CK 859 (511.12.39.21.99.002) recalls a 1939 Omega that used the hand-wound 30T2 small seconds calibre. Its 39 mm steel case takes a 20 mm strap and holds the hand-wound Co-Axial Master Chronometer calibre 8926, with a 72-hour power reserve.

Olympic timing runs through the series. Omega supplied 30 chronographs for the 1932 Los Angeles Games, and the Olympic Pocket Watch 1932 comes in red, white or yellow gold, 100 pieces each. For Beijing 2008 there is a 37 mm yellow gold Seamaster XXIX for each day of the Games, Day 1 to Day 17, 88 pieces apiece. The N° 8 "Racend Timer 1949", N° 9 "Milestone 1941" and N° 10 each have an Olympic Official Timekeeper Co-Axial Chronograph companion in the same gold, pink, white and yellow, 188 pieces each.

The Seamaster was introduced in 1948, based on designs made for the British Royal Navy towards the end of the Second World War. The 38 mm Seamaster 1948 pieces come with small or central seconds, in steel or in platinum limited to 70; the Seamaster 1948 Co-Axial London 2012 is 39 mm in steel and yellow gold.