Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17688 in Watches
• Brand: Omega
• Model: 1501.10
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: push-button-clasp
• Dial color: gold
• Dial window material: scratch-resistant-sapphire
• Movement type: Swiss Automatic
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quality Swiss Automatic movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arm
• Domed, anti-reflective scratch-resistant sapphire crystal
• Case diameter: 35 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Gold dial; Date function
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Omega Men's Double Eagle Constellation Watch is a refined self-winding chronometer timepiece that features a co-axial escapement movement with a rhodium-plated finish. The watch's stainless steel bezel offers engraved Roman numerals, and the elegant gold dial is offset nicely with luminous hands and hour markers, and a calendar window at the 3 o'clock. The watch also features a stainless steel band, a domed, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal coated on the inside with anti-reflective treatment, and a calendar window at the 3 o'clock. The Constellation is water resistant to 330 feet.

The Omega Story
The Omega watch story begins in 1848, when founder Louis Brandt began hand assembling key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen in his principality La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the northwest corner of Switzerland. However, the Omega name didn't appear until 1894, after Louis Brandt had passed away and his watchmaking traditions were taken over by his sons, Louis-Paul and Cesar Brandt. Omega watches have long been associated with glamorous screen and sports stars--the Omega Seamaster is famous for being the watch of choice for James Bond--with current ambassadors including Pierce Brosnan, Nicole Kidman, tennis player Anna Kournikova, and swimmers Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe.

But Omega is more than just a fashionable watch. In 1965, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was "flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions" as the only wristwatch to have withstood all of the U.S. space agency's severe tests, including passing grades for extreme shocks, vibrations, and temperatures ranging from -18 to +93 degrees Celsius. The greatest moment in the Speedmaster's history was undoubtedly 20 July 1969 at 02:56 GMT, when it recorded man's first steps on the Moon's surface as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Omega watches rocketed off to space on many subsequent missions, including visits to Skylab and the historic Apollo-Soyuz link-up of Soviet and American astronauts in 1975.

In more recent years, Omega created the world's first self-winding wristwatch with central tourbillon in 1994 and made history in 1999 with the first mass-produced watch incorporating the co-axial escapement, developed in conjunction with renowned English master watchmaker George Daniels. In simple terms, the escapement is the heart of a mechanical watch, generating the impulses that make the mechanism move. Omega's Co-Axial Escapement drastically reduces the friction among the parts that transmit energy to the other components, producing greater stability and precision and reducing service requirements.

Today, Omega is known for its rigorous testing of new movements, cases, and bands. Each new Omega movement is tested on the wrist in existing Omega models, while various laboratory tests are conducted to determine temperature-resistance, shock-resistance and vibration-resistance.

Customer Reviews

great price
54% off the MSPR is great. The serial number is still on the watch, even though it is a gray market watch. Even though this model is the mid-size one, it looks larger then it is due to wider band. I can't find any chronometer co-axial watch online that is cheaper then this price yet.

Great Watch, even better price
I bought this watch for my father-in-law as a parting gift before he travels back to China. He was literally speechless after understanding its value. None of his watches cost more $50 before. This watch would fetch the full $3,450 retail price among the tens of Omega flagship stores in Shanghai or Hong Kong. This piece looks great and runs accruately after testing it out for a couple of weeks. He loves the shining metallurgy work and the simple background. Omega was a well recognized brand in China since the 1940's. We chose a Constellation instead of the other more sporty type of watches to better match his dress code.

Amazon did a great job of shipping the watch. Not just using the regular cheap shipping, you get free over-night shipping. We don't really care about the warranty at this moment since the watch will travel outside of the country anyway.

I bought this watch when the price point was $1,799 on Amazon. Great deal. I would give it 5 stars if the serial number is etched on the back of the watch but I can't find it.