Over six years in development: meet the Speedmaster Chrono Chime and the Olympic 1932 Chromo Chime
At the heart of both is a new movement that allows them to chime the time. It took over six years to develop, required up to 17 patents and contains some 575 components.
By adapting an existing pocket watch movement, they were able to make a wrist-size model that could chime the minutes and hours on demand. The new watches pay tribute to this, and also bring together Omega’s expertise in chronographs, sports, the Olympics and world-class watchmaking. To do so, it worked with sister company Blancpain to combine a fully integrated chronograph with a minute repeater, the most complicated movement it has ever made.
The first of the two watches links that first minute repeater model from 1892 with the pocket chronographs Omega used to time the 1932 Olympic Games, in Los Angeles.