Omega Railmaster Co-axial 60th Anniversary Watch Repair / Polish in Nottingham. Quality Watch Repairs – Affordable Prices. Professional Service Centre in Nottingham

This fantastic watch is a re-make of the Omega Railmaster first released in 1957. Just like the Rolex Milgauss that we posted here on our log yesterday, the Railmaster was designed as a ‘tool watch’ of a different sort: It was a watch for scientists that could stand up to the magnetic fields encountered in the laboratory. As you likely know, magnetism will impact the timekeeping of a watch, rendering it impractical for wearing during jobs that rely on accurate timekeeping. The Railmaster used a soft iron inner case as a Faraday Cage and a thicker dial to shield the movement from outside magnetic fields of strengths up to 1,000 Gauss.

Omega wasn’t the only watch manufacturer creating this kind of watch. As mentioned before, Rolex famously has the Milgauss, which takes its name directly from the 1,000-Gauss resistance (mille being French for 1,000) and was developed in partnership with the Swiss laboratory CERN. The watch was produced from 1956 until 1988, before it was again revived in 2007. Likewise, IWC has the Ingenieur, which actually came before either the Milgauss or the Railmaster, debuting in 1954. By that time, IWC already had a history of producing anti-magnetic watches for pilots, so the Ingenieur seemed a logical next step.