Omega 1819 51 91 Constellation Chronometer Chronograph

The Omega Men’s Double Eagle Constellation Black Rubber Watch offers self-winding chronograph motion with column wheel mechanism and a co-axial escapement for more outstanding precision, stability and durability of the movement. This chronograph timepiece sports a rugged, sporty design that features a black dial offset with white sub-dials at the 3, 6, and 9 o’clock markers, and luminous dials and hour markers. The black stainless steel bezel is engraved with white Roman numerals, and the lasting wide rubber band offers ease and performance in uttermost conditions. The watch likewise features a domed, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal coated on the inside with anti-reflective treatment and a calendar window at the 6 o’clock. The automatic Constellation is water immune to 330 feet.

The Omega Story

The Omega watch story begins in 1848, when founder Louis Brandt started out hand assembling key-wound precision pocket watches from elements supplied by local craftsmen in his principality La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the northwest corner of Switzerland. However, the Omega name didn’t appear until 1894, after Louis Brandt had passed away and his watchmaking traditions were taken over by his sons, Louis-Paul and Cesar Brandt. Omega watches have long been affiliated with glamorous screen and sports stars–the Omega Seamaster is widely known and esteemed for being the watch of choice for James Bond–with current ambassadors including Pierce Brosnan, Nicole Kidman, tennis player Anna Kournikova, and swimmers Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe.

But Omega is more than just a fashionable watch. In 1965, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was “flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions” as the only wristwatch to have withstood all of the U.S. space agency’s severe tests, including passing grades for extreme shocks, vibrations, and temperatures ranging from -18 to +93 degrees Celsius. The greatest moment in the Speedmaster’s history was undoubtedly 20 July 1969 at 02:56 GMT, when it recorded man’s primary steps on the Moon’s surface as percentage of the Apollo 11 mission. Omega watches rocketed off to space on galore subsequent missions, including visits to Skylab and the historic Apollo-Soyuz link-up of Soviet and American astronauts in 1975.

In more recent years, Omega developed the world’s primary self-winding wristwatch with central tourbillon in 1994 and made history in 1999 with the initial mass-produced watch incorporating the co-axial escapement, produced in conjunction with widely known and esteemed English master watchmaker George Daniels. In simple terms, the escapement is the heart of a mechanical watch, generating the impulses that make the mechanism move. Omega’s Co-Axial Escapement drasti reduces the friction amid the parts that transmit energy to the other components, devising dandier stability and precision and reducing service requirements.

Today, Omega is known for it is stringent testing of new movements, cases, and bands. Each new Omega motion is tested on the wrist in existent Omega models, while respective laboratory tests are conducted to determine temperature-resistance, shock-resistance and vibration-resistance.