zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

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Well you have made my day. thank you for all that information, I thought at best i would get a one line answer but you have excelled.
Thanks again.

Hi Seddon,

: OK, you have an F300 Seamaster Chronometer.

: F300 refers to the movement, which has a
: "tuning fork" movement. Why 300 ?
: Because the tuning forks vibrate at 300 hz.
: If you hold it to your ear, when its
: running, you should hear it "hum".

: Work colleagues , friends & family will
: look at you like an idiot, when you do it
: for the 25th time on the same day, but
: that's never stopped me yet :-)

: These movements were basically the predecessor
: to the quartz movement.

: IMHO the best website to read for Info on
: F300's is Rob B's Accutron site . The
: Accutron / Bulova/ Omega movements were all
: very closely related.

: At the time this was probably the best &
: most accurate movement available.

: I'm not sure of the exact age of your watch,
: but the movement was available from 1972
: onwards ( 98,000 were made )

: As far as I know almost all f300's were
: chronometer rated.

: As to the actual watch. It's not a watch that I
: have any practical experience of. I may add
: one to my collection one day though.

: That particular model seems to have been quite
: popular. I have 3 adverts on my website
: featuring it ( OK these versions don't
: havethe day, just a date feature, but it's
: basically the same watch )

: f300 adverts, scroll down to Concorde &
: look after that .

: Here's one of the pages
:

: If you check out the prices ( in the concorde
: advert ), you'll see it cost more than the
: PloProf & the Speedmaster of the same
: period. Unfortunately current prices don't
: reflect this.

: Your watch looks to be original. It has the
: correct hands, dial & bracelet.

: All in All a fine example of one of Omegas best
: watches of the time.

: Enjoy it.

: Steve