Stainless steel OMEGA 2nd Generation 'Flightmaster' chronograph wristwatch. Made 1976

Information

• Brand: OMEGA
• Year: 1976
• Model: Flightmaster
• Reference:  ST 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 black subdials and luminous hour markers, outer racing minute track and rotating inner bezel, Cadmium yellow chronograph hands and black and white racing baton hands.
• Case dimensions: 42 x 50mm
• Bracelet/strap: Stainless steel bracelet
• Accessories: -
• SKU: 03277

Essay

The 2^nd 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 1^st 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 2^nd 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.