8800

About the Omega 8800

Master Chronometer certification, introduced in 2015, tests the cased watch rather than the bare movement: rate, water resistance and above all resistance to a 15,000 gauss magnetic field, which a conventional hairspring cannot survive. The 8800 meets it with a silicon balance spring on a free-sprung balance, bidirectional winding and the co-axial escapement, at 26 mm across with 35 jewels, a 55-hour reserve and 25,200 vph. The finish is rhodium with Omega's arabesque Geneva waves. It is the smaller companion to the two-barrel 8900, and the difference is a millimetre of diameter and five hours of reserve.

In the library it sits under 84 Aqua Terras, the 34 mm and 38 mm models, 65 De Villes, 37 Constellations at 39 mm, 26 Seamaster Diver 300Ms of the 2018 generation, 17 Seamaster 1948s and 14 Planet Oceans at 39.5 mm. Cases run from 34 mm to 42 mm, with 34 mm the most common at 79 references.

The 8806 is the same movement without the date, the 8807 the version with a Sedna gold rotor for gold cases, and the 2500 the ETA-based co-axial it replaced in the smaller cases.