zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Greetings.

I am new to this board, and high-end watches in general.

I am interested in obtaining a new, highly accurate watch. I practice celestial navigation, where accuracy is paramount. Thus, I am more interested in Quartz watches than mechanical ones. Also, the Junghans radio controlled watches do not interest me, as they may not be able to receive the time sync signals when offshore.

There is information floating around the internet that some quartz watches contain a temperature compansation system that increases their accuracy to the point that they will not very more than +/- 10 seconds per year.

The watches that are supposed to contain this feature are:

Piquot Meridian Octanis
Longines VHP
Krieger Marine Chronometer (possibly discontinued)
(all of the above are certified +/- 10 seconds per year)

Seiko's Perpetual Calendar line
(a +/- 20 second per year watch)

URL's:

http://www.piquotmeridien.ch/octantis_e.html

http://www.longines.ch, then click on watches, then on Conquest, the on the fourth watch from the left

http://www.kriegerwatch.com/catalog/marine.htm

http://www.seikoUSA.com

My question (finally!) is that several postings have indicated that the Omega Seamaster Professional (the 300M series, I believe) is also supposed to have this feature.

Can anyone here confirm or deny this information on the Omega? If not, do you know where I can find this information?

If so, this is the watch I will probably end up with, as it is the best looking of the bunch.

Thanks,

Colin