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Here is mine!

Hi all,

I want to share pics of my example with 2 second hands as I bought it (as is) - and I have no suspect  that the seller did some "special work" on it

to enhance the value or desirability of the watch. He was no watch guy and was selling various items out of estate buys...

The watch was not in very good condition when I bought it: The Omega logo and wording had faded but was still visible with a magnifying glass under a certain angle though.

I decided to leave the vintage surface of the dial background and had only reprinted the logo, wording and minute track.

I have no actual pictures as the watch is in the bank vault at the time - the pics show the watch in the condition as I bought it... meanwhile it had been restored to some part (as mentioned) and is waiting for a better matching pair of hour/minute hands as these ones had lost all the gold plating.

The movement is a very early and pretty rare Cal. 30 SC T1 in average condition.

IMO these watches are NO prototypes for the dead second (=jumping second) chronometer as the movement would require a special device for the jumping of the second (as it is realized in the Cal. 372 movement which is based on a later Cal 371 and not on the Cal. 30 SC or 28X  though!).

The early prototype however (I know only one example from the books) was based on a 30 SC T2 with a special jumping device and this part is obviously absent here.

Below you find pics of this early prototype taken from the German journal "Klassik Uhren" 3/97 - courtesy Mr. Fritz v. Osterhausen. It is an article about 30 T2

chronometers written by Mr. Osterhausen and Bernard de Geus. I am not sure if it is "our" Ben de Geus or not!? Ben chime in please!

Concerning the mentioned high price in the auction - I am still in doubt if it was a prototype or not as there was no movement picture available!

Maybe it was a faulty description by the auction house and at least 2 WISes have "shot up" the price onto such an insane range... just an assumption...

The center sweep second hand of my watch is "creeping" and not jumping, so NO prototype at all, but an interesting watch with a rare Cal 30 SC T1 with only 4500 examples built in total.

In the thread there was risen the question "what for?" of the second second hand

I guess it might have been custom made for a physician or for some military purpose where it might be useful to have a large second hand ... but it does nor really make sense... just for an eccentric maybe??

I had ordered an extract from Omega some years ago when they had offered them for free in a local  promotional campaign ... but they did not specially mention the second hand.

I don´t know how thoroughly they researched their archives during this promotion campaign (as it was for free and there had been an overwhelming amount of requests).

I think I will spend these 75 SFR for another extract - and hope it will disclose some more information and shed some light on this interesting topic.

Hope you enjoy the story

best

erich

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