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Hi Nafees,

Omega web site is updated (finaly), and now only those new style Day-Dates are available.

Have you managed to get any info on 3606 movement? I want to buy old style Day-Date (cal 1151), but now I'm afraid they aren't available anymore?

Cheers

: Hi guys!

: I would like your opinion on the new modified,
: improved speedy day-date. Omega will be
: releasing these in the UK in and around
: mid-Dec (if my sources are right).
: Unfortunately the Omega website is
: notoriously slow at updating anything. The
: new model I am interested in is 3221.30.00
: (type it into google, see what you get!)

: The information I have are: Case is 40mm, not
: 39mm as before;
: The date-pointer is a "pointer" not a
: crescent;
: The bezel colour will match the dial's colour
: (not an issue with the black, and I suspect
: the silver dial will have a polished
: stainless steel bezel as now);
: The upper sub-dial has been "cleaned"
: with the removal of the 5s and only the 10s
: are seen;
: The hour markers are more triangular;
: The bracelet will not be as flat as before, but
: similar to the broad arrow style bracelet;
: The middle sub-dial hand is changed slightly,
: with a more elongated pointer;
: The hippocampus is larger on the caseback;
: The calibre of movement is 3606;
: The water resist has increased to 100m from
: 50m.

: Now after talking with Project development in
: Bienne (over a phone, unfortunately) it
: transpires that cal.3606 will be an
: ETA-based movement, not a Puiget-based one.
: Only minor changes were made to the existing
: one to bring it to "Chronometer"
: status. This movement has not yet been used
: before in an Omega. Do you think there will
: be issues with this movement, in the same
: way as the 33xx series had?

: Any thoughts which will be better (obviously on
: speculation) an ETA-based movement, modified
: to "chronometer status" or the
: Valjoux movement used currently?

: I hope someone out there can help with these
: questions, especially with regard to the
: movements...

: Nafees