1970 Omega Memomatic ref. 166.072 cal. 980.

IMO this watch is undervalued for an big alarm automatic watch.

The Memomatic was the only alarm watch produced in 1970s that offered minute by minute setting. If you wanted to be on time for a meeting, your memomatic wrist alarm could remind you with an exactitude unavailable in other wrist alarms such as the Vulcain Cricket or the Jaeger le Coultre Memovox.

The barrel shaped Memomatic case was the longest-living of all the Memomatic models remaining in the Omega catalogue from 1969 to 1979 and is notable in a numbers of ways: superb case design, ground-breaking functional features and amazing dials that remain appealing to the contemporary eye.

Only 35,000 pieces were produced over four models, and Memomatics have risen steeply in value over the last couple of years but still an undervalued alarm wrist watch, it was the first of many watch to have the self-winding alarm and winding time functions operate with one barrel.