De Ville

Omega De Ville Co-Axial Chronograph Watch

Omega is borrowing from themselves in the design of the new De Ville Co-Axial Chronograph watch. The horizontally arranged overlapping subdials were first introduced to me in their Speedmaster 2008 Summer Olympics limited edition watch. Looks like both watches have the exact same movement, but it has been displayed differently here. For example the centrally located day of the week indicator is now a disc viewable through a window, versus a small dial. Omega has also adopted the style to fit in to the "De Ville theme" rather than the Speedmaster look. Movement is of course an Omega Co-Axial automatic that has been COSC Chronometer certified.

Pictured watch is in steel, there may also be a gold model in the works. The style is conservative and attractive. While it may fall short of "modern classic" it is an approachable and visually interesting men's watch. The best part of course is the functionality and arrangement of the subdials. Functions include the time, chronograph, day, and date. There is an unusual window for "recorded days." I am not sure exactly what this is, but it looks like Omega upped the chronograph from measuring up to 12 hours, to measuring up to 7 days. For keeping tract of really long times! "Better check back on this Turkey next week."According to Omega this new De Ville Co-Axial Chronograph watch should be due by Valentine's Day. So I guess they expect mostly women to buy it for men, and not men to buy it for themselves.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Omega's New De Ville Jewelry Watches

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Omega is showing off two new jewelry watches which are additions to the De Ville line. The men's watch (shown here on the left) is called Platinum Ice and is 41mm and has a mother-of-pearl dial and 24 baguette diamonds (4.8 carats total). The case is platinum and the spolit-seconds function lets the watch record two or more events. The mother of pearl is mounted on an 18K white gold base. The women's watch is Stars and Snow and is a 35mm x 35mm square with a white mother-of-pearl dial with 38 diamonds (.05 carats) set into the number 12 and a tiny (.08 carats) Asher cut diamond in the crown.

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