Stainless steel OMEGA dress watch. Made 1946

Stainless steel OMEGA dress watch. Made 1946The calibre 28. 10 is one of the earliest OMEGA automatic which includes 17 jewels and an early bumper movement. A "bumper" is an early type of automatic movement. Unlike the few modern automatics, where the rotor completes a full 360 degree rotation, the rotor in a bumper moves back and forth in an arc of about 180 degrees, bouncing off springs positioned on opposite sides. Brand: OMEGA Made: 1946 Model: Bumper Reference: CK 2421 1 Calibre: 28. 10 RA

Switzerland

Features/complications: Scroll lugs

Centre of case back painted with enamel scene depicting a boat on the river Bosphorus at sunset

Features/complications: Officially Certified Chronometer

and a tachymeter scale printed on the dial

This has led to each sub-reference having its own particular features which were often updated throughout routine servicing making many watches an assembly of various service replacement parts

as well as sporting events

naming it after the Roman god of fire

This is an example of a watch that has been subjected to the entropic effects of wear and time

of which only 500 pieces were produced

triple calendar wristwatch with a moonphase which came in both a series of round cases and also a significantly more rare

Case dimensions: 32mm