Avoiding this issue was crucial for exact replica Omega watches

Magnetic fields are one of the biggest challenges facing today’s mechanical watches. Increasingly, watch owners are needing to send their replica watches uk into service centers for demagnification. It’s not a complex issue to fix but it but it is time consuming and annoying for the owner, plus it’s always better to avoid if possible. Tablets, mobile phones, microwave ovens, induction cooking plates and even airport security checks can affect a watch’s accuracy, even expensive ones, thanks to the magnetic fields they use. When you look at how many devices are using magnetic fields these day, it’s not hard to imagine that the magnetization of a watch can easily occur, just by daily use. Avoiding this issue was crucial for exact replica Omega watches.

While anti-magnetic watches have been around for several decades, the traditional idea has always been to protect the movement by placing a heavy, and space-consuming, faraday cage around it. This results in several drawbacks: larger watches, heavier cases, no possibility of a date window, and no way to display the movement through the caseback. Omega’s idea was to make the movement (and not the omega replica watch) anti-magnetic. The first important step toward creating an anti-magnetic movement began in 2008, with the launch of the Si14 silicon balance spring. Yet, this was not enough. To have the entire movement anti-magnetic, Omega had to go further. The staffs and pivots in these upgraded calibres are made of Nivagauss; the steel plates found in the Co-Axial movement have been replaced with non-magnetic plates; and the spring of the shock absorber has been crafted from an amorphous material. That means that all parts that should usually steer clear of magnetism, have been replaced with anti-magnetic materials.

Alongside the research on magnetism, Omega also relies on all its other innovations from the past few years, the main one being of course the Co-Axial escapement, which is now deployed on all the movements of the brand (with the exception of the calibre 1861 in the Speedmaster). This specific type of escapement has nothing to do with the anti-magnetic properties strictly speaking, yet it is extremely important to the overall accuracy of the watch, which is of course one of the main aspects of the chronometer certification created by Omega, the “Master Chronometer”.The Omega Master Chronometer movements will now be chronometer certified but also certified against magnetic fields up to 15,000 Gauss (which corresponds to what you’ll find in a MRI and a value that is 15 times more than what a certain competitor, protected against 1,000 Gauss, can do with a faraday cage). This concept was first explored with the Omega De Ville Trésor, the Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial (the name of which later changed) and the Seamaster Aqua Terra Master Co-Axial. Once the certification process was defined, the nomenclature changed to Omega Master Chronometer, a concept launched officially in the Omega Globemaster, the first Master Chronometer in the world.