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  2. Coaxial escapement - Wikipedia

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    The escapement was commercialized in 1999 by Omega SA when it introduced the first mass-produced watch incorporating the technology. [11] It is the only escapement other than the Swiss lever escapement that is produced on an industrial scale. When it first came to the market as the Caliber 2500, it had an oscillation rate of 28,800 beats per ...

  3. Antimagnetic watch - Wikipedia

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    The Omega Anti-Magnetic Seamaster was announced 17 January 2013 (e.g. Seamaster Aqua Terra > 15,000 Gauss). According to the press release, the OMEGA movement does not rely on a protective container inside the watchcase but on the use of selected non-ferrous materials in the movement itself.

  4. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.

  5. Angular velocity - Wikipedia

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    In physics, angular velocity (symbol ω or , the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as angular frequency vector, [1] is a pseudovector representation of how the angular position or orientation of an object changes with time, i.e. how quickly an object rotates (spins or revolves) around an axis of rotation and how fast the axis itself changes direction.

  6. Tourbillon - Wikipedia

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    In the three axis tourbillon movement, the 3rd (external) cage has a unique form which provides the possibility of using jewel bearings everywhere, instead of ball-bearings. This is a unique solution at this size and level of complication. [11] There are a few wrist and pocket watches that include the Triple Axis or Tri-Axial Tourbillon ...

  7. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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    This watch uses Omega caliber 1400 (ETA 205.111 Rhodium plated). Swiss company ETA SA, part of the Swatch group, [5] made seven different automatic quartz movements, calling them Autoquartz. They were part of the premium Flatline series of movements [6] and were sold to a variety of watch vendors, primarily European and American. High grade ...

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  9. Omega Electroquartz - Wikipedia

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    The movement was a modular design and components were manufactured by individual companies (such as Omega who made the micro motor) and then assembled at three workshops. [ 4 ] The beta 21 watches had a sweeping second hand, which moved smoothly round the dial and ‘hummed’ thanks to the Omega vibrating micro motor.