Omega Men’s 3523.80.00 Speedmaster Day-Date Automatic Chronograph Watch
Add a true classic to your timepiece collection with the latest generation of the amazingly precise and rugged Omega Speedmaster, the first watch worn on the moon. This stainless steel automatic men’s watch includes a powerful chronograph with 12-hour and 30-minute registers as well as a day, date, month and 24 hour display. Definitively masculine in design, it features a mid-sized, round silver stainless steel watch case with a highly polished tachymeter bezel in silver with black markings, and it measures 39mm (1.50 inches) wide.
It has a deep blue dial background with luminous, silver-tone hands (with seconds hand) and small baton dial markers. Other features include a scratch-resistant and glare-proofed domed sapphire crystal, and water resistance to 50 meters (165 feet). It’s completed by a silver stainless steel link bracelet band that offers polished highlights, which is joined by a secure, fold-over-clasp-with-single-push-button.
Automatic Watch Movement
An automatic watch is self-winding, and its movement has a reserve that must be at least partially filled prior to being worn. This is done by shaking and winding the timepiece manually. In order for an automatic timepiece to keep a reserve, it must be worn daily for 8 hours of active wear. This watch has a 44-hour power reserve.
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. 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.
- Quality Swiss Automatic movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arm
- Scratch-resistant sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment inside
- Case diameter: 39 mm
- Stainless-steel case; Blue dial; Day-date function; Chronograph functions; Tachymeter function
- Water resistant to 165 feet (50 M): suitable for swimming and showering
