De Ville Tonneau Automatic Jump Hour Yellow Gold / Silver / Bracelet

In Context

At 31.2 mm it is small by current standards, in the range most wristwatches occupied before cases began growing through the 1990s. The case back is closed, so the movement stays out of sight, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. Rated to 30 m, it is protected against rain and splashes and nothing beyond that.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 44 hours of reserve carries it overnight, but not through a weekend in a drawer. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

4153.31.00 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a silver dial with a yellow gold case.

An automatic built for the De Ville Tonneau's jumping hour: rather than a rotating hand, the hour appears in a window and changes in one step on the hour, with the minutes read on a retrograde scale that flies back at sixty. Adjusted in five positions. The complication is what the calibre exists for; the timekeeping beneath it is conventional.

1 other watch in the library runs the Omega 1221.

Omega

De Ville Tonneau Automatic Jump Hour Stainless Steel / Salmon / Bracelet

4553.61.00 · 31.2 mm