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An exotic Omega -- 1981 La Magique

Omega is sort of the "everyman's" watch today. Among luxury watches, they are the reasonably priced while simultaneously very high quality watch in the mass produced section of that market.

In the past, Omega was much more of a mass produced and relatively expensive luxury watch, as Rolex is today. The brand also dabbled in interesting specialty products from time to time, and I enjoy collecting these lesser known and less common items. In fact, my collection is largely built around having watches no one else has from Omega (because of low and/or brief production), and about having at least one of each complication.

One of these exotic watches Omega made briefly -- basically to show that they could -- was the 1981 La Magique. Produced only that year, it was to prove that Omega could make a thin, yet wearable quartz watch.

I finally pulled this watch out and properly photographed it a few weeks ago.

Yes, you are looking right through it. A variation on the "mystery dial" complication (probably technically not a complication, but a feature), this watch has four layers of sapphire in the center.