Okean 3133 "Not Quite" the Final Edition

Saw this beauty in a store here in Moscow about a month back and "report from the scene of the disturbance".

It is in fact a new version of the Okean (Okeah) 3133 Final Edition chronograph watch and I think it will confuse matters even further. Slightly.

To understand, I recommend consulting my two previous entries on the subject on this blog.

• Okean Final Edition 3133 from my collection; and

• List of Okean Final Edition  owners

Looking at the face you can see it differs both from both the original and the previous known duplicate version (such as mine - which are identical in everything but the box and paperwork):

• different stopwatch hand - barbed or winged like on Shturmanskies;
• different small register hands;
• different hour and minute hands with different lume - white -- also. 

The rest seems as before.

 Compare with my watch (duplicate):

 However when you see the back...

...you realize that the back is identical to the final edition, also the same strap.

Here's mine again for comparison.

There are two possible explanations. 

One is that it is a duplicate edition, or second run, watch but with those differences in front because either (i) Volmax has run out of original Final Edition parts; or (ii) has started using different hands etc. to differentiate from the Final Edition after much criticism. The other explanation is that it is something from the third run of watches (triplicates).

I feel the former is closer to the truth, as I was warned in the store that, if I wanted to buy it, I should do it now as they were running out of them. And in the store itself there was, like, only one this watch, I think.

More photos after the jump.

List of Okean 3133 Final Edition Owners

A list of owners of the Okean 3133 Final Edition 1975-2011 (sometimes also known as ... Okeah...) by Volmax, both originals AND duplicates.

For those unfamiliar with the short but sometimes sordid history of this watch, this would be a good place to start. But there are also other sources out there and in several languages therefore just google it, if you please.

Here's the watch in question -- my timepiece, a duplicate.

Number 20/300. This is not a Spanish forum original but, as I said, one of those duplicates apparently additionally made by Volmax in an unknown quantity hopefully not exceeding the original run, i.e. no "triplicates". 

Click the link below to view the list.

List setup is as follows:

First Column -- originals made by Volmax for a Spanish watch enthusiasts forum, Hablemos de Relojes - HdR.

Second Column -- Volmax "duplicates".

Third Column -- reserved for now.

Owners are (not) identified solely by their forum monikers and the forum they belong to or are most active on, all information is freely available in the public domain.

I should make it clear that I am more (marginally) interested in the fate of duplicate Okeans (seeing as my own watch is one of those duplicates) and their actual number in existence. For this reason I will not update the first column, which is already much outdated as I understand, but I am only going to update the second -- duplicates -- column, and I hope it won't be necessary to do anything in the third one ))

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