Earlier this 12 months, Omega made an announcement that many people had hoped for (in some circumstances, for many years) which was that, after a 5 decade hiatus, one of many nice basic actions of mid-century watchmaking was going again into manufacturing. That motion was, and now could be (it’s a nice feeling to have the ability to use the current tense about this caliber) the Omega caliber 321, derived from the caliber 27 CHRO C12, which was a chronograph, with 12 hour recorder, developed in 1942. The motion, in numerous kinds, would go on to have a most illustrious profession, however one in every of its most well-known iterations was the caliber 321 chronograph motion. This Omega caliber was utilized in numerous Omega watches however it’s most likely most well-known for having been used within the Speedmaster. It was the motion which Omega used within the very first Speedmaster wristwatch – the reference 2915, and it’s the motion used within the first Omega to go to house, which was Walter “Wally” Schirra’s, on board Mercury Atlas eight, in 1962 (no person owns historical past, and these kinds of coincidences are objectively meaningless, however nonetheless, I’ve at all times gotten a kick out of the truth that the primary Omega Speedmaster went into house the 12 months I used to be born, and for that matter inside a number of weeks of my birthday).
