What brand of watch is Omega?
Omega, one of the brands of Swatch Group. The English name omega, representing the symbol "ω", was founded by Louis Brandt in 1848. Omega marks a brilliant achievement in the history of watchmaking and stands out among peers.
1848, Swiss watch Omega was born in the hands of a 23-year-old young man. This man is Louis Brandt, a small craftsman. In the long winter in Switzerland, Brandt pieced together the parts bought from local craftsmen by the faint light and made a pocket watch that was popular at that time.
Brandt died in 1879, and two sons took on the heavy responsibility of the family business. His son transformed Louis Brandt into a watch factory and moved the factory to a beer area with abundant manpower, rich resources and convenient transportation. Louis Brandt once became the largest watch company in Switzerland.
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For Omega, 1894 was a year of changing fate-"19 French Movement" was born with an innovative split and combination mode. After the relocation, Brandt company took the lead in giving up the old manual assembly system and began to mass-produce standardized parts, which were assembled accurately and accurately, and were considered by the industry as an affordable work in accurate timing.
Since then, the watch industry has entered the era of mass production and division of labor assembly. At that time, a banker named this extremely successful movement "OMEGA", which is the last letter in Greek to indicate the perfect performance of this movement.
This year, the Omega movement, which achieved market success through ingenious advertising, won the observatory watch certificates issued by the Geneva and London observatories. To commemorate this achievement, Omega has since become the official name of this brand.
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