We’re 100 days out from the 2024 Paris Olympics. How do I do know that? As a result of Omega simply gave a two-prong reminder releasing a duo of Speedmaster Chronoscope fashions upfront of this yr’s Summer season Video games. You may recall the model unveiled the two-tone Seamaster Dive 300m with its white dial and gold bezel final yr, and now we’ve our second set of commemorative items. The model is aware of the right way to mark an event, ask James Bond or – um, okay – the Olympics.
So it was in that spirit that the Omega unveiled two, nicely technically 4, new iterations of the Chronoscope with a decidedly Olympic bent. The primary is a full Moonshine gold mannequin – Moonshine gold being the model’s proprietary yellow gold. It contains a white opaline dial with contrasty black subdials and a contrasting black ceramic bezel and comes affixed to a full gold bracelet. As a substitute of the open caseback discovered on the common manufacturing mannequin, this watch has a closed caseback engraved with the 2024 Paris brand.
A second Moonshine gold mannequin is being supplied, and this one may be my favourite of the bunch. It options all the components described above however as an alternative of the total gold bracelet, it comes on a vintage-inspired black strap. I feel the strap actually accentuates the ceramic bezel and the black subsidiary dials.
You need to do not forget that this 43mm chronograph contains a tachymeter, telemeter, and pulsometer scale, and any option to preserve a way of legibility on this watch is a win in my guide (for a full breakdown of the Chronoscope, click on right here). Similar to the crimson version of the unique run of the Chronoscope, the black sub-registers go a protracted option to preserve that legibility issue and also you see it on all the Olympic editions.
The dial is actively and purposefully busy to account for all the – nicely – scales however is damaged up by some heat by way of the gold Arabic numerals, which play off the gold of the case. After all, there’s one other model of this watch common from metal.
The metal mannequin is successfully similar to the gold iteration simply with none gold on the case or bracelet. It does, nonetheless, share the identical dial structure and coloration. Similar to with the gold, there are two executions in metal: One on a bracelet and one on a racing-style strap (an choice I like far lower than that in gold).
Not like the gold version, the bezel on the metal mannequin is made from aluminum. The metal mannequin has the identical closed, engraved caseback overlaying the METAS-certified Co-Axial Grasp Chronometer Calibre 9908 / 9909.
The Moonshine strap model will price $32,700, the moonshine bracelet model will price $51,400, the metal strap model will price $9,500, and the metal bracelet model will price $9,800. All can be found now.
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