Omega Revives the 1950s Constellation With a Cutting-Edge Twist

At the start of the 1950s, Omega was quite a different company to the one we know today. It had yet to release the Speedmaster, Railmaster and Seamaster 300 – the trilogy of icons that arrived in 1957. The Seamaster existed, having been launched in 1948, but was a much more delicate number – more suited to mastering, or maybe just observing, the sea at a safe distance than venturing beneath the waves.

That’s not to say Omega hadn’t learned to make resilient watches — it had been the largest single supplier of watches to the British armed forces during World War II — but the gr...