The only watch worn on the surface of the Moon, and a hundred years of being the one holding the stopwatch.
Louis Brandt began assembling watches in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1848. The company took its name from a movement: the Omega calibre of 1894, an interchangeable-part design so successful that the firm was eventually renamed after it. It has been based in Biel/Bienne ever since.
Omega has been the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games since Los Angeles in 1932 — a single watchmaker sent thirty chronographs and one technician. The Seamaster arrived in 1948, the company's centenary year, out of the waterproof watches it had made for the British forces during the war.
In 1965 NASA tested chronographs from several makers to destruction and flight-qualified exactly one. On 20 July 1969 Buzz Aldrin wore a Speedmaster on the lunar surface; Armstrong had left his in the lunar module as a backup for its instrument timer. In 1999 Omega put George Daniels' co-axial escapement into series production — the first fundamentally new escapement to reach volume manufacture in two hundred years.
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