With regards to galleries run through watch manufacturers, the actual Rr art gallery within Bienne is certainly one worth a visit (and when you’lso are not traveling to Switzerland, presently there’utes an internet site as well: www.omegamuseum.com). It is situated just across from Omega HQ, admission is free of charge, this’utes open up on Saturdays as well as during the 7 days, and — on top of that — you get to see hundreds of wrist watches, clocks, movements, as well as instruments displaying greater than a hundred years of the trademark’utes fascinating history.

Obviously, amongst all these displays are very several dive wrist watches, provided the actual Omega watch brand’utes wealthy background within production wrist watches with regard to marine use.

Along with a thorough lineup of previous and current Rr Seamaster wrist watches, we from DiveIntoWatches.org found four prototype wrist watches upon display in the museum that we felt had been worth interest. Here they are, together with pictures:

• The “Super Converter” case prototype from 1969 with a 52-mm size along with a flexible caseback intended to be utilized in helium-saturated conditions. Probably since the Omega Seamaster six hundred from that time had been place “through the helium test […] This test demonstrated that the actual 600 is one hundred times as air- and drinking water-tight as the Apollo spacecraft.” Rr didn’t go after the idea of a helium release valve further until the 1990s.

Omega Museum – Extremely Comprex Model

• A good Rr Seamaster 1000 prototype having a very unique frame inlay and a silly call/hand combination. The watch was adopted by COMEX throughout Janus 2 (2 yrs before the co-operation along with Rolex started), together with some specifically marked Seamaster 600 “Ploprof” models, whenever “these people invested 8 days about the ocean floor, while setting up a brand new world deep-ocean scuba diving record.”