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Most watches earn a chronometer certificate by measuring six positions with a seconds hand ticking away. The Constellation Observatory has no seconds hand, and that absence is the point.
Omega developed the acoustic method with Laboratoire de Précision specifically to test two-hand watches, where a conventional timing machine has nothing to listen to. The Constellation Observatory is the first two-hand collection to complete that process and earn Master Chronometer certification. It is also the first time a watch has carried 18K Moonshine Gold inside the movement itself: on the Calibre 8915 references, the rotor and balance bridge are finished in either Moonshine or Sedna Gold, not merely the case. The Calibre 8914, which powers the O-MEGASTEEL references, takes a rhodium-plated finish instead.
All four of Omega's proprietary gold alloys appear within this single collection. Moonshine Gold, Sedna Gold, Canopus Gold, and Platinum-Gold each feature across the nine references, which is the first time the full set has gathered in one place.
The medallion on the dial carries eight stars. Each one corresponds to a result from the observatory trials held between 1933 and 1952: six first-place awards and two world records. Precious metal editions arrive in a wooden presentation box whose emblem is rendered in marquetry, a craft that takes as long to complete as it looks.
