VERY RARE MILITARY OMEGA BROAD ARROW GENT WRISTWATCH

BRAND: RARER! AUTHENTIC OMEGA BROAD ARROW MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN: SWISS

CIRCA: 1944 (SERIAL NO. 10,xxx,xxx)

MODEL: MILITARY BROAD ARROW

CRYSTAL: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT: OMEGA 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT CAL 30T2 - RARE

DIAL COLOR: MILITARY BLACK BROAD ARROW

FUNCTION: HOUR, MINUTE, SUB SECOND

HANDS: SS LUMINOUS

MARKERS: ARABIC LUMINOUS

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL

HINGING LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 34mm DIAMETER EXCLUDING CROWN and 45mm LUG TO LUG

BACK CASE INSCRIPTION: - W.W.W. Y10598 - 10674797

CROWN:  LARGE SS CROWN

STRAP: NATO BLACK TEXTILE MILITARY 

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

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

PRICE: SOLD;TO PETER FROM OMEGA

SOLD : SOLD

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.