The world's first minute-repeater wristwatch was launched in September 1892 by Bienne, Switzerland created by the firm of Louis Brandt & Frère, which is the precursor of today's Omega watch company. Brandt selected the Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus to change a thirteen-ligne Lépine ebauche. It was bought by Audemars from the ébauche maker LeCoultre & Cie. The complex mechanism was triggered by a slide at 3 o'clock.
The wristwatch case is very similar with the one of a pocket-watch. He had engraved a phrase that translated in French that means “Excluded from the competition: juror, Paris 1889.”
The engraving represents Brandt's discontent about the fact that the watch was exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, but wasn't authorised to participate in the competition for medals. This happened because César Brandt, who owned the company with his brother Louis-Paul, had served on the jury.
First Omega Wristwatch (1900)
The first wristwatches having the Omega brand on it was created in 1900
by British officers in South Africa's Boer War (1899-1903).
The company was one of the primal ones to start serial production of wristwatches. In 1904 an Omega advertisement presented the testimonial of a British artillery officer whose Omega wristwatch resisted in both terrible cold and heat, awful sandstorms or torrential rains. His conclusion was that “the wristwatch is an essential campaign element.”
Omega Seamaster (1948)
Omega Seamaster Line was created by René Bannwart, being the one who later founded Corum. He had begun creating Omega's design in 1940.
It was an innovation, as sketches for models were drawn by draftsmen in watch-case factories. Bannswart decision pushed Omega on a new successful way that other brands would soon adopt. For celebrating Omega's 100th year of existence, Omega sales director Adolphe Vallat asked Bannwart to design a waterproof, sporty and robust wristwatch. Bannwart replied that he hasn't enough time and presented a sketch that he described it as “much too clunky.”
To Bannwart's surprise, Vallat was so pleased, that the result can be seen today in Seamaster collection. First commands were from Britain's Royal Air Force in World War II. There is a variant with small seconds, also available as a certified chronometer, that includes the new automatic Caliber 28.10 RA RG-343. The design including central seconds hand was the 28.10 RA SC-350.
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The company was one of the primal ones to start serial production of wristwatches. In 1904 an Omega advertisement presented the testimonial of a British artillery officer whose Omega wristwatch resisted in both terrible cold and heat, awful sandstorms or torrential rains. His conclusion was that “the wristwatch is an essential campaign element.”
Omega Seamaster (1948)
Omega Seamaster Line was created by René Bannwart, being the one who later founded Corum. He had begun creating Omega's design in 1940.
It was an innovation, as sketches for models were drawn by draftsmen in watch-case factories. Bannswart decision pushed Omega on a new successful way that other brands would soon adopt. For celebrating Omega's 100th year of existence, Omega sales director Adolphe Vallat asked Bannwart to design a waterproof, sporty and robust wristwatch. Bannwart replied that he hasn't enough time and presented a sketch that he described it as “much too clunky.”
To Bannwart's surprise, Vallat was so pleased, that the result can be seen today in Seamaster collection. First commands were from Britain's Royal Air Force in World War II. There is a variant with small seconds, also available as a certified chronometer, that includes the new automatic Caliber 28.10 RA RG-343. The design including central seconds hand was the 28.10 RA SC-350.
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