ro:
The unique style of the Z-33
The flight log
Titanium Case
Two great strap choices
Getting the watch hands out of the way with a button push
Favorite functions set
Alarm: This alarm will wake you up or sing over the prop wash
An iPad app
Cool factor
Con:
The price: for 1/5 of the roughly $6000 price, you can get a Hamilton (a Swatch brand) Flight Timer, which also has a flight log. The Z-33 seems overpriced; it is, after all, a quartz watch, but you are literally paying for out-of-this-world durability.
The watch sits very high on the wrist (19.85mm), due to the alarm’s echo chamber. Without the echo chamber, the watch sits with a lower profile and a more ergonomic fit. It is a toss-up because then again, you give up the loud alarm.
Multiple button push. In trying to operate the right side buttons, I would place my thumb on the left side of the case, which resulted in accidental button push on the left side. Training my thumb to place itself “just so’ prevented the problem, but required intentionality.
Digital display could have been more bright to improve readability in bright sun light.
I want a thicker, beefier veal strap commensurate with the watch’s pilot classification.
Omega Spacemaster Z33 official photoFunctions and display, with possibility of back-light:
General:
Hour-Minute-Seconds, analogue and digital display
Choice between 12- and 24-hour digital display
UTC (Universal time)
Time 1 and 2 (time zones)
Alarm
Chronograph
Count-down
Perpetual calendar (Day-Date-N° of the day of the year-Week-Month-Year)
Professional pilot functions:
Time-logging of flight / block time (at 2 or 4 points), according to either UT C or Time 1, up to 10 flights
Visualization of the logged times with date-hour indications
Special features:
Transflective LCD on black ground with red segments
LED backlight: luminosity adapted automatically to ambient luminosity
Possibility to disengage the hands to facilitate digital reading
Here’s a link to the Spacemaster on the Omega website, with some nice additional photos.
This article is written by Max Reddick, contributing writer for Monochrome Watches.
http://www.monochrome-watches.com/omega-spacemaster-z-33-fully-reviewed/
