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Stainless steel 2nd generation Flightmaster chronograph wristwatch. Made 1975

Stainless steel 2nd generation Flightmaster chronograph wristwatch. Made 1975

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Information

  • Brand: OMEGA
  • Year: 1975
  • Model: Flightmaster
  • Reference: 145.036
  • Calibre: 911
  • Movement: Manual
  • Material: Stainless steel
  • Features/complications: Colour coded hands, crowns and pushers, chronograph, rotating inner bezel, independently adjustable second time zone hand, running seconds at 9 o'clock
  • Dial: Grey painted dial with tropical subdials and luminous hour markers, outer racing minute track and rotating inner bezel, orange chronograph hands and black and white racing baton hands.
  • Case dimensions: 43mm
  • Bracelet/strap: Stainless steel bracelet
  • Accessories: Extract from the Archives
  • SKU: 03089

Essay

The 2nd Generation OMEGA Flightmaster was introduced in 1971 using a calibre 911 with a constant second’s subsidiary dial replacing the 24-hour indication dial which was originally fitted to the 1st Generation model. This was because many pilots had complained that they were unable to tell at a glance if the watch was working because the chronograph was not in use.

The 2nd Generation Flightmaster was produced as two separate references, the ST 145.026, with orange hands and flat crystal that fitted into a groove in the watch case; the second reference St 145.036 ‘’Pilote’’, with cadmium coated yellow hands and with a flat crystal pressure fitted to the case in a gasket.