Omega watches were established in 1848 by Louis Brandt. The watches were made with the purpose to surpass others in high precision timing. His two sons took over the company after his decease and made their own in-house inventing system. They focused strongly on producing their own calibers.

When his two sons took over the business in 1903, the oldest son, Paul Emile-Brandt, took over the business at his age of 24. He was at the time in charge of 800 employees and managed to take the company to a even higher level in the watch industry.

Brand Name : Omega

Style : Men

Omega made an important companionship with the Olympic community and was the first watch company to the the official timekeeper in LA in 1931. The next big leap was in 1935 when NASA preferred their Speedmaster Professional to be worn by cosmonauts in space. The first Speedmaster in space was worn by spaceman Edward White.

Then in 1969, the first cosmonauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, used their Omega watches to land on the moon. Another test for the watch company was when the Apollo 13 space vehicle had an explosion of their service module in 1970. The spacemen had to fly back their craft with no power supply and little oxygen provision. Their ability to re-enter earth’s atmosphere was done with the use of Speedmaster watches that helped them earn the Snoopy Award, a high reward given by astronauts to their providers.

The watch is today still a part of Omega’s collection and has become a classic watch known through generations.