omega citizen the OMEGA Co-Axial Escapement

Posted by admin on June 30, 2010 under omega citizen category | Be the First to Comment

In 2007, OMEGA introduced its new family of manufacture movements with Co-Axial calibres 8500 and 8501, entirely designed and produced in-house and equipped with the third generation of the OMEGA Co-Axial escapement. When Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek acquired the rights for OMEGA to use Co-Axial technology, he set an audacious goal: he wanted the best performing and the most beautiful series-produced movement in the world. For OMEGA, which was named for the revolutionary 19’’’ calibre from 1894, omega citizen the years of intense research and development marked a return to its roots.

The OMEGA Co-Axial calibres were built to provide perfect working conditions to the Co-Axial escapement which had been introduced in 1999 as the first practical new watch escapement to be invented in some 250 years. The components in OMEGA’s Co-Axial escapement differ considerably from those of the Swiss lever escapement which had long been the industry’s mainstay: it consists of a balance roller carrying a pallet and an impulse pin, an anchor with three pallets, and a three-level coaxial escapement wheel comprising the co-axial wheel, the co-axial pinion and the gearing/transmission pinion, with which it is connected to omega citizen the intermediary wheel and the gear train.