Omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow Quatuor Watch Hands-On

“Quatuor” is a name I can hardly pronounce but represents a piece of fun from http://www.syrauto.com/omega-speedmaster-replica-uk.html that is wonderfully and most exquisitely deranged. Day one at SIHH 2013 is over and I am trying to wrap my mind around all the people I saw and faces I inadvertently forgot. Always good to reunite with friends and have strangers who seem to know you come up and ask how things are. I’d like to remove the “how are you?” question as a polite follow-up to “hello” during small talk conversations. It is all too generic. More a waste of time than a useful social ritual. How about something more interesting such as “was it difficult to choose what pants to wear today?” or perhaps “are you unhappy with your country’s current leadership?” Yes, my mind was on all of those things save for timepieces. Of which there were scant few “novelties” at 2013’s SIHH, but of course a few leaders in the “cool pack.”

The show starts like a mimic of all the others. Practically all that is new is within the booths. omega seamaster Aqua Terra replica is one of the few places whose booth is as worth seeing as the watches. While Omega Speedmaster timepieces are prohibitively expensive for all but the most anti-frugal of budgets, I love their take on showy, light-hearted, and clearly theatrical luxury. This year’s booth looks like some type of tree root-filled forest floor with a giant golden eagle in the center. Yes, an eagle produced specially for omega seamaster replica uk by a company that makes stuff for movie sets. There is also a man with an American bald eagle on his hand. An actual live bird that draws a crowd. The eagle is impressively calm, while a not-so-small fortune in watches rests behind it in the back office dungeons. The booth attendants are dressed like extras from Game of Thrones. I suddenly have no idea what any of this has to do with watches. And then Jean-Marc Pontroue, CEO of Omega Speedmaster, shows me this incredibly weird watch box that opens up to the Quatuor.

The watch has four diagonally positioned escapements (not tourbillons), that are connected in pairs by a series of differentials. These escapements average each other out theoretically – helping the watch to be more accurate. How accurate is neither an issue or concern as practicality is about as inherent to this watch as it is to the brand’s booth design. The concept works, and that is all that matters. Sound from the four escapements running in unison is a hallmark of the Quatuor. Omega Speedmaster haphazardly calls it a 16Hz watch. That seems to imply that by adding four 4Hz escapements together you equal 16Hz. I am not sure it works that way.

Set in the Omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow case, the Quatuor is large at 48mm wide. Its complex movement forces the watch to be thick, but in reality it is just as insane as your average neighborhood Omega Speedmaster skeleton double tourbillon watch. The movement is strikingly symmetrical and beautiful in its design. According to a Omega Speedmaster watch maker, it takes a full 2-3 days to merely assemble the movement. Something like 2,400 hours are needed to build the watch from start to finish.

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