The Speedmaster Super Racing is the first watch to include OMEGA fine-tune Spirate™ System, which includes a revolutionary new patent-pending spiral that allows for ultra-fine rate adjustments. The spiral is the most complex component of the regulating organ in a mechanical watch, with the new Spirate™ System allowing OMEGA to achieve certified precision of 0/+2 seconds in a day.
To do this, OMEGA had to – quite literally – reinvent the wheel: drawing on both the technical resources of the Swatch Group and the precision, stability and reliability of OMEGA’s chronometrically superior in-house movements. The innovative solution was a totally new Si14 balance spring, which allows the watchmaker to act on the stiffness of the hairspring’s attachment point through an eccentric adjustment located on the balance bridge. Each innovative spiral is made from a silicon wafer, thanks to an internal manufacturing process called DRIE (Deep Reactive Ion Etching).
Showcasing this technological masterpiece for the first time is the one-of-a-kind Speedmaster Super Racing in stainless steel. The watch is powered by OMEGA’s state-of-the-art Co-Axial Master Chronometer 9920, while the dial is encircled with a racing style minute-track, and a black ceramic bezel ring with the famous tachymeter scale in new yellow ‘grand feu’ enamel.
The honeycomb pattern of the dial references a concept timepiece on display at OMEGA Museum which survived magnetic fields of 160,000 GAUSS. The diamond-polished and bevelled black arrowhead indexes are filled with a new and exclusive Super-LumiNova which emits a yellow glow, and the watch comes with either a steel bracelet or a sportier NATO strap in recycled nylon with black and yellow stripes.