review vulcain cricket revolution dual time

Not the prettiest of movements, but a good work horse The movement in the memomatic is a Lemania derived movement, with the two disc's for the alarm time setting is Omega Cal 980. There are four different cases styles and a four dial colour combinations ( not including the variation of the orange / red on the grey and orange dials as these changed due to different suppliers of the dials and hands) I will go into the different case styles and dial colours later but for now, this is the version I picked up, reference 166.072Īt 40mm + crowns it wears well without being too big and I find it super comfy due to the domed case back I say Ish as it is kind of + / - 5 mins of the time you set it for, but other mechanical alarm watches you can only set the alarm roughly for every 1/4 of an hour ie, on the hour, quarter past, half past or quarter to said hour.

The Memomatic is also the only mechanical alarm watch that can be set to the minute- ish. It will activate the alarms hammer for one revolution of the barrel so that it doesn't deplete too much of the mainsprings power for time keeping side if things. The Omega Memomatic was introduced at the end of 1969 and is the only mechanical alarm watch that uses one barrel to power the watches time keeping and the alarm hammer. I have been after a couple of different vintage alarm watches for some time now and just the other day the very version I had been looking for in the omega memomatic came up for sale on another forum. I started to write a bit about the history of the alarm watch and the problems with making a watches alarm audible as well as making it dust and water tight, but there is just so much that could be written on the subject that if you are interested I can recommend reading the book 'The Alarm Wrist watch' by Michael Philip Horlbeck.

One such useful complication is the often undervalued alarm wrist watch. As you get more and more in to this crazy hobby of ours you find some interesting watches with all manner of complications, some useful, some not so much.

Review vulcain cricket revolution dual time