Omega TC1 Prototype

[pdevos]

watch out talking to Omega in Bienne, they will take your watch away withtout any compensation if you ask they to check or note a version. too bad I was looking to get this module, (the one on the left with the first version of the TC1 to be repaired. This is new and will be applied when Omega heritage service reopens (it's currently closed as they are reviewing their process due to the increase number of fakes)

[gjlelec]

I dont understand ? What are they claining is fake? The watch or the module. I've seen that TC1 stainless (not white gold plated) with the TC2 type raised bezel a few times. I assumed this was a halfway house model for want of a better description, where they were moving onto the TC2 production. They may have had a shit load of TC1 modules to use up? Maybe a prototype before the final TC2 design was decided on. I'll guarantee they dont know. The Omega Museum doesnt even have a curator anymore.Recently I had two differing answers to the same question from two different people at the musuem on the same day !! Omega arent and never have been interested in their digital history. It isnt really theirs. They stole a module from Hamilton and put it in a case- end of. I'm pretty sure they dont even have a digital section since they revamped the Museum in 2019

[bruce wegmann]

I see nothing here that says "prototype". The modules are perfectly standard 201-2 Time Computer circuit boards, with Omega factory markings (though both are missing the little gold-plated disc with the serial and caliber number which was glued to the hole between the battery compartments...remnants of the adhesive, probably Eastman 910 or similar contemporary cyanoacrylate, are still visible).
The case, glass, and bracelet in no way appear unusual...I have two of the stainless steel TC1s, and all features I can see offer a perfect match to my in-hand examples. This is a very rare watch...I believe there are only 15 or so known in collections, worldwide (and, while that might provide some incentive for replication, this is such a niche item that I doubt, in general, that it would be worth the effort).
Oh, and Omega didn't "steal" anything from anybody...Hamilton wasn't involved at all at this point, and Omega had a sales agreement with Time Computer, so they could call the models Omega Time Computer (what a shocker, eh?)... Once the sales agreements expired, both Omega and Hamilton continued on, using modules made by Frontier. Omega was then obliged to discontinue the use of the term "Time Computer", and went with "Digital II" and Constellation (just for a bit of added confusion, some Frontier modules used the same Monsanto and Litronix LED displays as Time Computer...though they are relatively rare).