Omega De Ville Tourbillon Numbered Edition: Malaysia Price And Review

Alvin Wong 22 June 2020

Possibly the world’s most robust tourbillon.

This is horological history in the making. Omega’s De Ville Tourbillon Numbered Edition is the world’s first-ever hand-wound tourbillon to be certified a Master Chronometer. And what does it mean? Well, the timepiece’s hard-to-come-by status makes it among the planet’s hardiest and most accurate tourbillon wristwatches endowed with the ability to resist up to 15,000 gauss of magnetic interference, while promising accuracy of +5/-0 seconds per day.

Omega’s Master Chronometers belong to an elite league of timepieces. Introduced in 2015, the Master Chronometer certification, conducted by an independent body known as METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology), tests the brand’s COSC-certified Co-Axial movements that have been engineered for high levels of anti-magnetism.

Omega doesn’t really make that many tourbillons, which makes the De Ville Tourbillon Numbered Edition’s groundbreaking milestone even sweeter. The brand introduced its first tourbillon in 1947 to enter precision competitions. It then debuted the first self-winding central tourbillon wristwatch in 1994, and in 2004, with the first chronometer-certified tourbillon wristwatch.

The latest De Ville Tourbillon Numbered Edition also features a centrally mounted 60-second tourbillon. Inside the watch is the new Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 2640 with three-day power reserve, endowed with all of the aforementioned qualities of hardiness and resistance required of a Master Chronometer. With beauty to match the brains, the watch’s movement features bridges and a mainplate crafted in 18K Sedna gold, which are immaculately hand-bevelled.

The tourbillon mechanism at the middle of the dial is housed in a black ceramicised titanium cage and framed by a knurled gold outer ring. The theatrical set-up is complemented sublimely layered construction featuring a black PVD-coated Sedna gold dial with sunray finish at the base; Sedna gold time-telling hands sandwiched between the dial and the tourbillon; and inner dial flange with baton hour indexes.

Encased in 43mm Sedna gold, the interplay between the gilded and enigmatic tones, centered around a sculptural and sophisticated work of mechanical art, the De Ville Tourbillon Numbered Edition is, without doubt, a unequivocal display of watchmaking gravitas.

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