Type: hand-wound
Jewels: 17
Frequency: 19,800 vph
Date: No
Regulator: Reed
In brief
Every other calibre in Omega's manual 6xx family was built out of this one. Seventeen jewels, no date, a Reed-type regulator — the starting point for the brand's hand-wound range in the 1960s.
Short history
Bridges, wheels and much of the jewelling came straight from the automatic 5xx family — a production shortcut inside Omega's factory at the time, and a gift to anyone hunting for parts now, since components cross freely between the two families. Plain and sturdy, never pretending to be anything else, it turns up constantly in Genève and De Ville watches of the period. Omega stopped building the manual series in 1974, by which point quartz had taken the Swiss market.
Watches that used it
- Omega Genève
- Omega De Ville