Who doesn’t know of the elegant masterpieces of the Omega kind? Omega watches have been crowd favorites especially now in the modern era that individuals are raring for elegant and functional time pieces that can attend and function in the kind of pace and environment demanded by the modern and cosmopolitan man and woman. Omega is based where else but in Switzerland, and is also under the group that is known for all time, the Swatch group.

Omega’s roots may be found in the humble beginnings of a man by the name of Louis Brandt, who was able to craft especially functional and elegant time pieces from the labor of surround workshops in his place in Switzerland. At that time, Brandt’s market was specifically England, who made sure that his produce also reached other European markets. After his death, his two offspring, who were receiving reports that their produce had defect, abandoned the traditional methods of the forerunner of the Omega and decided that complete control of the production methods was the answer to their present quality problems with the time pieces that they were producing.

Co-axial escapement became one of the innovations that would bring Omega into the international market, and would garner the respect that was so sorely needed in a country that was known for watches, leather goods and time pieces. This particular innovation in the production of watches assured that another earlier innovation, by the name of lever escapement, made sure that the time pieces made under the name of Omega would be able to provide an increased level of accuracy over long period of use, and would provide the wearer longer periods of service.

Omega was also present during the ongoing space race, and it is with this particular phase in human history that Omega went head to head with a large competitor, the venerable Bulova. The Speedmaster time piece, designed and produced by Omega was worn by an astronaut on the moon and eventually made Omega one of the most well known and loved names in timing devices in the world.

In the year 2007, to commemorate the lunar mission of the US, Omega came out with a classic rendition of the original lunar chronograph that they had been commissioned to produce and provide by NASA decades ago.

Who had worn Omega? It is in the interest of the majority of those who are interested in acquiring time pieces to see well known personages endorsing products, and one of the most well known individuals that had used the Omega in dangerous mission both here and around the world is James Bond, who had worn an Omega for a long time. It was Pierce Brosnan who began to regularly use Omega upon his debut as the pistol wielding British spy in the year 1995. Omega had also appeared in the movie The Big Blue. Tom Cruise also wore a vintage Omega watch in the well known movie “War of the Worlds”; Omega is that popular, and that good.