The yellow Comet has managed to be united with his brother, the blue Comet. The blue Comet is a rarer octagonal shaped Comet. Now, the twin is waiting for their Red Comet....
Vintage watch hunting is a very exciting hobby where one needs to have some patience to hunt for the best!
This is another cloisonné dial with map of the Middle east by Omega. This watch was bought from Saudi Arabia. My interest in the Middle East started after my first sight seeing visit to Egypt many years ago where I found my first cloisonné watch.
This is an extremely rare Polychrome Cloisonné Enamel Dail special creation by Omega in the 1960s for Aramco the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia. The center area of the dial depicts the Saudi Arabian map in polychrome cloisonné enamel (green, yellow, blue, white) with the Saudi crest at the 6 o'clock position and an oil well near the 2 o'clock position over the location of Dhahran on the Saudi map. Dhahran is the residential community built by Saudi Aramco for its employees The cloisonné enamel dials represent one of the highest forms of art offered on an Omega (or any other) watch. The cloisonné (which literally means "partition" or "cell" in French) process begins with thin metal strips called "cloisons" being bent into shapes for and soldered onto the base to form the cells to be filled in with enamel. The piece is heated in an oven and cooled in order to permanently affix the cloisons to the base. Next, ground, colored glass, or "frit", is blended with water and painted into the sections marked off by the cloisons. It is allowed to dry before the entire piece is again fired in an oven. Multiple applications of frit and firings are often necessary to complete a single cloisonné work. Different colors or transparencies of frit may be layered on top of each other to create a desired look. Cloisonné is then finished by polishing the piece smooth.
I have just returned from Baselworld 2011. Despite the busy schedules, I have managed to find two new old stocks vintage jump hour with special decoration from Zurich inichen. These watches were popular in the 1930s where the watch makers then tried to be innovative and produce a "digital" numbered watch. The front of the case has three apertures for the hour, minute and seconds to be shown. This style of watch is also known as an early digital watch. What made these interesting and unique are the special colours decoration as most jump hour are in all steel, gold or silver with no colour decoration.
This is one of the most beautiful modern interpretation of time! It's a limited edition nos 39 out of a limited total production of 250 gold watch using the Maurice Lacroix own manufactured in house movement! Just look at the workmanship and you can see this beautifully crafted double retrograde watch with GMT function.
