18ct yellow gold 'bumper' automatic dress wristwatch. Made 1951
18ct yellow gold 'bumper' automatic dress wristwatch. Made 1951
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Information
- Brand: OMEGA
- Year: 1951
- Model: Dress watch
- Reference: 2583
- Calibre: 332
- Movement: Automatic
- Material: 18ct yellow gold
- Features/complications: Bumper automatic and hooded Lugs
- Dial: Two-tone silvered dial featuring applied mirror polished hour indices with 'Star' quarters, inner minute track with gold Dauphine shaped hands and subsidiary seconds
- Case dimensions: 33mm
- Bracelet/strap: Leather strap
- Accessories: Extract from the Archives
- SKU: 02591
Essay
Introduced in 1943, the 'bumper' movement is a self-winding automatic movement. Unlike other variations of an automatic movement where the rotor rotates a full 360 degrees, the bumper movement moves back and forth around 120 degrees. OMEGA found this to be the most effective, due to the rotor ‘bumping’ off a pair of springs on opposite sides of the watch, although not exclusive to the manufacturer.