This is a really attractive watch, with its carioca colours on the ceramic bezel, the jaunty skeletonized hands with their differentiated SuperLuminova, and the wavy dial decoration, not a reference to the sea but rather to the two-tone paving design of Copacabana’s beachside promenade. The solid caseback is embossed with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games…
Nicole Kidman, ambassador for Omega, is no ordinary woman, but her comments on watches provide an indication of women’s current preferences for watches. They are taken from the official Omega transcripts of an event organized in Milan on 16 September 2015 to celebrate the launch of an exhibition of women’s watches by Omega, and the…
The Omega Seamaster 300 is a diving watch that Omega launched in 1957 and reintroduced at Baselworld 2014. This year’s version differs from the 2014 version principally for the soft leather strap with contrasting stitching that gives a new vintage-type look to the piece. The 41mm case is in stainless steel with Sedna gold details (Sedna…
Once again, Omega has produced a special Seamaster watch celebrating their support of Emirates Team New Zealand in the 35th America’s Cup. Even though the movement is the same Co-Axial calibre 3330 as used in last year’s ETNZ watch, and it has remained basically the same since its launch in 2012, the watch itself has…
The Omega De Ville Prestige Butterfly was presented in October 2014 in Seoul, at Dongdaemun Design Plaza designed by Zaha Hadid, in a spectacular installation where the Plaza was filled with 21,000 white flowers lit by LED bulbs. This year, the watch will be released in a new version, the Omega De Ville Prestige Dewdrop,…
There are four new watches in the Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon collection originally launched in 2013. They are named Vintage Black, Sedna Black, Pitch Black and Black Black. Vintage Black is distinctive for the vintage beige SuperLuminova and the brown leather strap. In Sedna Black, the darkness is relieved by Sedna gold…
There’s no doubt about it, George Clooney was perfect in Gravity, and he looked very much the part at Omega’s celebration of its links to space travel on 12 May in an aircraft hangar in Houston. Guests included the “last man on the moon” Gene Cernan, who commanded Apollo 17, and fellow astronaut James Lovell.…
The Speedmaster is now a very large family, with a lot of variants introduced over the years. The Speedmaster ’57 that Omega presented at Baselworld 2015, due to reach the market in August-September 2015, has a lot of the vintage looks of the original – the smooth tachymeter bezel, pushers without crown guards, the dramatically…
This is a lovely watch presented at Baselworld 2015, I think the Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M Good Planet by Omega. I only have my own photo to go on: it was very striking with its white dial and blue hands. I would guess that it has a stainless steel 41.5 mm case with 15 bar/150…
One of the themes that emerged at Baselworld 2015 was certification, with Rolex announcing that in addition to the COSC certification (which tests the movements, not the assembled watch) that they already use, they will run their own additional testing on the watch in the case, and Omega announcing their own new departure in this…
Omega and Apollo 13 was a success story that developed of its own accord, as it were, NASA choosing Omega as its mechanical back-up for timing purposes, and then the Apollo 13 incident, the film, and so forth. The brand’s relationship with James Bond on the other hand required time and major investments that enabled…
The Speedmaster Moonwatch “White Side of the Moon”is the third watch by Omega to have a case entirely in ceramic. It completes the series of the ceramic “Dark” and “Grey” Side of the Moon released in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Case, dial and pushers are in white zirconium oxide ceramic; the polished white ceramic bezel…
Not many watches have been on the moon. Not many watches have saved lives. Not many watches feature one of the world’s favourite dogs. This piece has all three and so its attraction is obvious at first sight. It was issued to mark the 45th anniversary of the Silver Snoopy Award given to Omega for…
Company profile: What would later become Omega was initially a watch assembly business, a “Comptoir d’établissage” started by Louis Brandt at La Chaux-de-Fonds in June 1848. He was 23 at the time. Just two years later, he was making enough watches to warrant a journey by coach throughout Europe to establish an international distribution. On…
Einstein stars in a new Omega campaign for their Seamaster Aqua Terra watch. Einstein is George Clooney’s spaniel cross, rescued from a kennel for strays. George says of his dog, “I think he’s concerned that I am in his shot and he thinks that perhaps you can airbrush me out of it. That’s his hope.”…
Omega’s new model presented at Baselworld 2015 is the Globemaster, an attractive 39-mm three-hander with a dial that is faceted on the hour ring and with a fluted bezel that recalls the early Constellation watches (and also another little brand called Rolex). As Omega president Stephen Urquhart said, the Globemaster is about “innovation, implementation and industrialization,”…
I have a sort of inborn distrust of watches with LED screens, and particularly one like this with not two but four pushers that hint at a great fat instruction book. But this is Omega, and it’s linked to an interesting project, flying around the world in a solar-powered aircraft. This watch, the Speedmaster Skywalker…
“You know, former SAS types with easy smiles and expensive watches…” she says, looking at his wrist where a watch is concealed under a French cuff. “Rolex?” James Bond replies, “Omega.” “Beautiful,” she says. This is a fragment of the dialogue between James Bond and Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. Particularly significant because it reflects…
This version of Omega’s classic Central Tourbillon watch has a coaxial calibre, and a bezel set with 24 baguette diamonds. The piece is unusual, amidst the tourbillon watches by different brands, for the position of the tourbillon itself. At the centre of the watch, the seconds hand is set into the titanium tourbillon cage which…
1. Omega was chosen by NASA after a gruelling series of tests. The Omega Speedmaster is the only watch approved by NASA for manned space flights. In the early 1960s, the Omega had already been in space, worn by Wally Schirra on his Mercury flight in October 1962, and NASA were considering a watch for…