OmegaDe Ville

The De Ville is Omega's dress collection, a name that began as a Seamaster sub-line in 1960 and became a collection of its own in 1967. This library holds 756 references across the Prestige, Co-Axial, Hour Vision and Tourbillon families.

About the Omega De Ville

Its significance to Omega is technical as much as stylistic. The first production watch with George Daniels's co-axial escapement was a De Ville, in 1999, carrying the caliber 2500. The De Ville Hour Vision of 2007 introduced the caliber 8500, the first movement Omega designed from scratch around the co-axial escapement rather than adapting an existing base. The 1994 De Ville Central Tourbillon put the cage in the middle of the dial with the hands mounted on sapphire discs around it; 16 tourbillon references remain in the collection here.

The 2500 is the most common movement, in 206 watches, and the 2892-derived base it sits on explains how a co-axial watch could stay under 10 mm thick: the median case thickness across the collection is 9.9 mm. The 3313 column-wheel chronograph appears in 37 references, and the current Master Chronometer 8800 in 65. Quartz accounts for 211 of the 756, almost all in the smaller Prestige cases.

That range of sizes, from 22 mm to 44 mm, reflects the collection's job as the entry to Omega's dress catalogue. The 41 mm Hour Vision and the 39.5 mm Prestige are the most common gents' sizes, at 123 and 97 references, and the 32.7 mm and 27.4 mm Prestige quartz the most common ladies'. Water resistance is 30 m on 564 of them, which is the honest rating for a dress watch. Silver and white dials outnumber everything else.

The Trésor and Ladymatic were spun out of the De Ville into lines of their own; the Constellation is the dressier alternative with an integrated bracelet.

All models in this collection756