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In June 1848, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and the age of 23 years, founded a watch factory precision with silver boxes, provided by local artisans. Since the company’s headquarters, located on Avenue Leopold Robert, 59 watches sold throughout Europe, where its market favorite Great Britain.
On July 14, 1877, Louis Brandt was associated with his son, Louis Paul, founding Louis Brandt & Son, in July 1879.
In 1880, Louis Paul and his brother Cesar, founded his watch factory in Bienne, launching its first mechanical caliber produced by them, Jura, Patria, Helvetia, Celta and Gurzelen, were highly successful. In 1889, the factory hired more employees, a total of 600, compared with 1880 which had 250 employees.
With more than 100,000 units a year, production was higher in the Swiss watch industry. In 1891 Louis Brandt & Son changed to Louis Brandt & Brother, then in 1892 the Brandt brothers created the first wristwatch with a minute repeater from around the world, equipped with caliber 13, a bell for hours, half and quarter.
1894 Louis Brandt’s brother, Henri Riekel, suggested the idea of the name Omega, also that 1894 was the date most important to the future of manufacturing clock, as it appears the famous 19-caliber Omega, performed by François Chevillat, Construction of a perfect size and ingenious mechanisms, was extraordinary, with an affordable price with the new production methods, all of this was part of the great success of the revolution that resulted in almost the entire Swiss watch industry.
Also in 1894, Omega timers were first mentioned in official gazettes of leaves by the observatories of Neuchâtel, Geneva and Kew – Teddington, Omega watches were the first major success in 1896, when he won a gold medal at the Swiss national exhibition in Geneva.
1897 Grand Prix at the international exhibition in Brussels. Already the company had more than 800 employees, and production had risen to 200,000 watches a year. In 1900 received the Gold Medal from the Paris Exposition for his model Greek temple 1900.
On April 14, Louis Paul Brandt died at the age of 49 years, on October 11 his brother Cesar Brandt died at the age of 45 años.Tras the death of the two brothers, his sons Gustave, and Paul Emile Adrien, took the reins, Gustave as commercial director, Adrien assumed the Administration and Paul Emile production financing.
The economic hardship caused by the First World War in 1925 that they would be merged Omega and Tissot, in 1930 after its merger within the group of SSIH, Geneva, the group continued SSIH, absorbing approximately fifty companies. Before the 70, SSIH had become the leading producer of watches in Switzerland and the third world.
Stephen Urquhart began his career in the Department of Marketing and Production of Omega in 1968, and in 1974 entered into Audemars Piguet, a company of which he was president in 1987. Ten years later he served as Director General of Blancpain, and in 1999 he was named president of Omega by Nicolas G. Hayek.
His achievements: 28 international awards, among which are some of the most coveted, as the three Diamonds International Award, in 1957.1963 and 1964, which grants the Diamond Institute of New York, or Trouphe Grand Prix de l ‘ Exelence Eropéenne, in 1985, created by René Bassin, which is awarded to firms who excel in the European culture and creativity, a couple of examples, Yves Saint Laurent and Rolls Royce.
Omega was the first company to be official timekeeper of all Olympic disciplines in Los Angeles in 1932 using chronographs and timers developed by its subsidiary Lemania. The association of Omega with the Olympics, was beneficial in the development of innovative systems in the field of sports footage time trial.
One of the first innovations for the brand was the world’s first, independent photodetector portable and waterproof (1945). This was followed by the world’s first camera photofinish, the clock automatic omega of Racend (1949) remains a very important innovation that solved the problem of arrivals clustered.
At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Omega was the first company to use the electronic timing in sport, with the recorder of omega Time (OTR), which was approved by the International Athletics Federation on the basis of a certification of the observatory Neuchâtel, which tested its accuracy with an error of 0.05 seconds in 24 hours.
At the same Games, was awarded the Olympic Cross of Merit for “exceptional services to the world of sport.”
In 1961, Omega Omegascope invented, which allowed time for each competitor was followed by the TV camera being superimposed on the TV screen.
The European Athletics Championships held in Budapest in 1966, marked a turning point in the timing of sports, since they were the first European championships in which the times were recorded electronically and then as official times.
It was the OTR and Omegascope who recorded this unique moment. One year later, Omega introduced its “Pads of contact” for the swimming competitions, this new technology only reacted to the touch of the swimmers and not the minced water. Such contact pads have been used in the most important swimming events in the world ever since.
In 1990, the brand opened the sports timing of the general market with the launch of the Scan OVison a cheap and popular version of the camera photofinish.
The latest development of Omega in the synchronization technology is based on bringing sports timed to the Internet was alive with the synchronization of the events of swimming, allowing anyone with Internet access to see the results of the competition swimming and jumping in real time from Omega
Early March 1965, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was elected by the American administration space for all manned space missions, as the only wristwatch in the U.S. who endured the tests carried out under conditions of zero gravity, magnetic fields ends, the vibration and high temperatures, in the same month, the clock was associated officially on board the mission Geminsi 3.
In April 1970, the Omega Speedmaster rescued the Apollo 13 mission of a potential disaster, getting the Snoopy Award, the highest distinction awarded by the astronauts of the U.S. space administration to Omega.
In another historic event, the Speedmaster was subject to the wrists of the American astronaut Tom Stafford and the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the Apollo-Soyuz.
It was the first time that the two cosmonauts wore the Omega Speedmaster. Since then, the Speedmaster has been the official chronograph of all Russian manned space missions.
The biggest moment in the history of the Speedmaster was undoubtedly 20 July 1969 at 02: 56 GMT, when he gave the man’s first steps on the lunar surface.
Today, Omega breaks the mold with a new design, the exhaust coaxial, developed in conjunction with the master watchmaker George Daniels. The new design is based on a system that avoids the most friction, the soul of the clock, the exhaust.
