VERY RARE AND HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE HARD TO FIND OMEGA MILITARY WWI MEN'S WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC OMEGA MILITARY GENTS DRESS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1955 (SERIAL NO. 1.4MILLION )

MODEL: MILITARY/AVIATOR

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC CLEAN / BERSIH TANPA CALAR

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: OMEGA 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK/HITAM

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: SILVER TONE ARABIC & ARROW

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL / KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 17mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 42mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 44mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: NONE

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BLACK LEATHER/ KULIT ASLI WARNA HITAM

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

DISCONTINUED MODEL & HARD TO FIND

SOLD TO PATRICK KIT FROM MUAR

History of Omega Watch Co

The History of a Successful Company Omega was founded by Louis Brandt at La Chaux – de – Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 as a assembly workshop. In 1879, after his death, his two sons Louis Paul and César started the in-house manufacturing so they started having total production control. One year later, Omega moved into a small factory that became a huge one when 12 months later they bought the entire building. In 1903, they both died leaving the company in 24 years old, Paul Emile Brandt’s hands. Because of the crisis that the Second World War left, he had to work really hard in order to face the economic difficulties. He merged Omega with Tissot calling the new company SSIH. The SSIH group continued to grow and multiply under his leadership and, by the seventies, it had become Switzerland’s number one producer of finished watches and number three in the world.

In 1985, the holding company was taken over by a group of private investors under Nicolas Hayek leadership. It was immediately renamed SMH (Société suisse de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie). SMH had a rapid growth and success becoming today's top watch producer in the world. Named Swatch Group in 1998, it now includes Blancpain and Breguet.