Jewellery and Watches

An Omega Seamaster stainless steel LCD/Analogue ‘Chrono-quartz’ bracelet watch, 1970s, with quartz movement calibre 1611, the rectangular black dial with two LCD digital displays on the left, and analogue display on the right, with luminous baton hour markers and date aperture at 3, the brushed stainless steel case with rounded corners, push buttons for the chronograph functions to the left, and crown with time functions on the right, the reverse with logo of Montreal Olympic games, held by four screws, with integral stainless steel bracelet with folding deployant clasp, the case, dial and movement signed, with original red Omega box, purchaser guarantee dated March 1979 and June 1979, and original Omega booklet, watch head width 47mm. £500-700

The Omega Chrono-quartz watch was the world’s first digital/analogue chronograph. Invented by Omega SA, and launched at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games it was Omega’s flagship chronograph at that time. The watch was the first to combine analogue display for the time functions and a digital display for the chronograph function, each working independently of one another but running on the same quartz resonator (32 kHz).