I've just bought a ss/18k 200 quartz which I'm going to clean up a bit and give to my son for his 21st birthday. Though the text may be a little dry, Believe it or not I typed up this review on a keyboard with a faulty spacebar. I certainly want to give credit where credit is due. Just send me a note and corrections will be made. If I have used a picture of yours without proper credit given, I apologize. Since I only own one version of this watch, this review would not have been near as informative without all your cooperation. Thank you to all who responded to my "permission to use pics of your watch" PM's and emails. Any omissions or mistakes are purely my fault. I tried to make this review as complete as possible. Special thanks go out to the following WIS for use of their pictures and as a great reference source for the Seamaster200Ī few parting words. For the auto, the full-size date window touches the hash marks, while the mid size window obliterates the hash marks. On the Quartz full-size there is a gap between the date window and the hash marks, while on the mid-size the date window touches the hash marks. The size can be determined by knowing the movement (auto vs quartz) and then looking at the relationship between the date window and the hash marks. If the picture is too small to make out the print, the auto will have 4 lines of text on the bottom half and the quartz will have three lines of text. The movement type can be determined by the dial either printed PROFESSIONAL (Quartz) or AUTOMATIC Chronometer (Auto), both with 200 M printed below. Now that we know the movements and the case sizes, let's have a look at how they can easily be differentiated just by looking at the dials. There are some subtle differences in the two sized dials. The Seamaster 200 was available in a full size version (40 mm w/o crown) official size 8.85 x 38.5 x 43.5 and a midsize (38mm w/o crown) official size 8.7 x 36 x 41. The 1441 movement stands out as it is a Thermo-compensated high-end quartz movement.Ĭollectors note: The 1441 is easily differentiated from the later 1438 (evenin small pics of the movement) by the two silver crystal units on the 1441 as opposed to the single crystal unit on the 1438. The quartz version started off with the Omega 1441 movement in late 1987 and by the end of 1988 and was fitted with the Omega 1438 movement. The quartz versions were marked with "PROFESSIONAL" (Sorry no pics but feel free to donate one if you like) This 21 jewel movement features quickset date, sweep second 44 hour power reserve and hacks. The automatics were powered by the Omega 1111 (ETA 2892-2) movement and marked with "AUTOMATIC Chronometer". I believe however that the 1441 High-end quartz movement was the most rare, being introduced in 1987/88 and replaced late in 1988 by the 1438 quartz movement thus being in production for one year or less. According to accounts the automatic version was produced in much smaller numbers compared to the quartz versions making it rather scarce. The SEAMASTER 200 was available in both quartz and automatic movements. At the time of the SEAMASTER 200 introduction, Omega was moving away from completely in house movements and moving to ETA movements.
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