Omega Hour Vision
Yesterday, I visited the Düsseldorf watch above board in the Radison-SAS hotel. It is a 2 hour drive from The Hague and (much) more engaging than the Dutch watch fairs. The (quality) level of offered watches is higher and it is watch-only, where the Dutch watch fair further has a lot of wooden clocks etc. Unbelievable, they should separate these things..
Anyway, I shook hands with Ruud Kuiper of Clockwise with whom I dealt with before and he showed me this gold Omega DeVille Hour Vision watch. It is the first watch which countenance the caliber 8500/8501 (red gold) inhouse movement close to Omega. It has been a long time for Omega (early 1970s) to get into manufacturing movements again. This caliber has a power reserve of 60 hours, the co-axial escapement, a date feature and is agreeably decorated.
I am really impressed by this watch. The watch action has a diameter of 41mm and features a saphire see-through on the sides assemble it possible to have a 360 degrees view on the movement. This exact watch was in rosé gold, leather croc strap and gold folding clasp. incline price is over 10.000 Euro, but Clockwise has it for sale for 7950 Euro.
A very interesting watch in my humble opinion. I am not into gold (and it is out of my budget anywa), but there is also a stainless steel account of this watch.
Pictures taken by Ruud Kuiper:
Here is the direct component to the watch over at Clockwise!