Omega Chronoscope Moonshine Gold And Steel Paris Olympics

We are 100 days out from the 2024 Paris Olympics. How do I know that? Because Omega just gave a two-prong reminder releasing a coppia of Speedmaster watch Chronoscope models in advance of this year’s Summer Games. You might recall the brand unveiled the two-tone Tissot Seamaster Dive 300m with its white watch dial and gold bezel last year, and now we have our second set of commemorative pieces. The brand knows how to mark an occasion, ask James Bond or – umm, okay – the Olympics.

So it was in that spirit that the Omega watches unveiled two, well technically four, new iterations of the Chronoscope with a decidedly Olympic bent. The first is a full Moonshine gold model – Moonshine gold being the brand’s proprietary gold. It features a white opaline dial with contrasty black subdials and a contrasting dark ceramic bezel and comes affixed to a full precious metal bracelet. As opposed to the open caseback found on the regular production product, this watch has a closed caseback engraved with the 2024 Paris logo.

A second Moonshine gold design is being offered, and this one might be my personal favorite of the bunch. It features all of the elements described above but instead of the full gold bracelet, it comes on a vintage-inspired dark-colored strap. I think the strap really accentuates the ceramic bezel and the black subsidiary dials.

You have to remember that this particular 43mm chronograph features a tachymeter, telemeter, and pulsometer scale, and however to maintain a sense of legibility on this watch is a win in my book (for a full breakdown of the Chronoscope, click here). Just like the red edition from the original run of the Chronoscope, the african american sub-registers go a long way to maintain that legibility factor and you see it on all of the Olympic models.

The dial is actively and purposefully busy to account for all the – well – scales but is broken up by some warmth via the actual gold Arabic numerals, which play off the gold of the case. Of course , there is another version of this view fashioned from steel.

The steel type is effectively identical to the gold technology just without any gold on the case or even bracelet. It does, however , share the same switch layout as well as coloration. Just like with the rare metal, there are 2 executions in steel: One on a band and one on the racing-style band (an option I like less than which in gold).

Unlike the particular gold edition, the viser on the steel model is made of aluminum. The actual steel unit has the same closed, etched caseback covering the METAS-certified Omega sa Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9908 / 9909.