Omega has a tradition of shaking up the world right in the beginning of the year. Who can forget the launch of the Speedmaster Snoopy 50th Anniversary on January 3, 2020, that caused the Internet to fully detonate with an orgiastic explosion exceeding even that of the Saturn V rockets powering Apollo 13? In line with this tradition, this year, on a cold winter day in Bienne, the brand’s president and CEO Raynald Aeschlimann unveiled an all-new Speedmaster Super Racing watch showcasing an incredible new technology within. Inside this timepiece resides an all-new silicon hairspring, the first of its kind that can actually alter its stiffness, that may well be one of the greatest horological revolutions ever created.
So why is it that the world is not reeling from the implications of Omega’s Spirate System, that competing brands have not been shaken from their somnambulant state with this mighty shot across the bow? Why is it that you have not seen the unique shape of the Spirate incorporating its novel blade system exploding off innumerable social media accounts? Well, it’s possible that the public might not fully understand the fundamentals of how a watch works. Which is a prerequisite to understanding how epically awesome the Spirate System is. The motivation for this article is to rectify this, without boring you
