#2022 Omega Flightmaster, circa 1971

Omega Flightmaster, circa 1971

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The flightmaster chronograph was made specifically to be used by pilots, and today is one of the most desirable and collectable vintage Omegas. Besides the usual chrono features found on other Omegas (such as the speedmaster) this watch has an extra hour hand, the blue hand, for GMT or another time zone. The watch is a real eye grabber with it’s four dials, six hands, 3 crowns and two pushers. The upper crown on the left side of the watch is used to set the GMT hand while the lower one rotates the inner bezel which is under the mineral glass and is used to measure elapsed time. Another nice feature is the yellow hands, which at the time of original purchase, had to be special ordered from the factory – the standard color was orange. The model or reference number of this watch is 145.036 and the movement is a high quality Omega cal 911.A service manual for the very similar Flightmaster 910 can be found on Steve Waddington’s site at http://www.old-omegas.com/860enser.html. The only difference in these two watches is that the sub dial at 9’oclock on the 910 has a day/night indicator instead of the constant seconds on the 911.

An interesting and informative article about flightmaster by watch guru Chuck Maddox can be found at http://home.xnet.com/~cmaddox/flightmasterarticle.html

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