Most respected Omega movement?

[GBonanno]

I am curious to hear your opinions on the most well respected movement ever put into an Omega watch....

[georges zaslavsky]

For handwound chronographs, the 321 and 861, for automatic chronographs, the 1040 and 1045, for handwound watches, the 30t2 and for automatic watches the 55x-56x-75x movements.

[mamas]

most people will probably say the lemania movements which power speedies.. so i will leave them to make a case for those.. ;-)

for me it has to be the 30mm movements such as 30t2 and its derivatives.
These were tough movements used in military watches and capable of amzing accuracy, far better than any of its competitors and destroyed competition by the likes of patek pillipe and rolex at the observatory competitions.
In the famous observatory competions during this time, Omega completely dominated these competitons.

I think that the results tel the story:
Omega: 10 first places, 19 seconds and 10 third places.

Patek Philippe: 8-3-7, Zenith: 6-4-8, Movado: 3-2-2, Longines: 2-1-1, Rolex: 1-0-1 and finally Ulysse Nardin: 0-1-1.

Geneva Observatory; best series of five movements seen all year:
Omega: 9, Patek Philippe: 5 (Results missing for 1946.)

Neuchâtel Observatory; best series of four movements seen all year:
Omega: 5, Zenith: 6(!), Longines: 2, Movado: 2.

the 30mm were bomb proof, simple to maintain and best of all can be picke dup today for not too much $$$$.. they are my :gold:gold:gold

[Jon]

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Jon