VERY RARE HARD TO FIND OMEGA BRITISH MILITARY GENTS WATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC OMEGA BRITISH MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1939-1943 (SERIAL NO. 9,740,212 )

MODEL: BRITISH MILITARY GB/159

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: OMEGA 16 JEWELS MANUAL MOVEMENT Cal.30T SC

DIAL COLOR: MILITARY BLACK/HITAM MILITARY

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: WHITE/ PUTIH

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: ARABIC WHITE MILITARY/PUTIH ARABIC

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL/ KELULI

LUGS: 19mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 35mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 43mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: MILITARY GB 159 A11977

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: NATO BLACK/WHITE/GREY STRIPE TEXTILE STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & VERY RARE AND VERY HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: PERSONAL COLLECTION

FULLY WORKING, WATCH HAS BEEN SERVICED OCT 2012

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.