Omega Pocket Watch Year 1882
Omega Watches through time – Part
Most people who are closely related to the luxury watch world know and often the fans of the current collection of watches made by Omega. Among the models that attract praise repeated for men and women's collection Constellation Collection Seamaster, Speedmaster and the collection of the Collection Deville.
But apart from the forces of current Omega watches particular, the Omega brand itself its own unique strengths: an impressive history and its historic role in the field of watchmaking.
The "Prehistory" of Omega, for so to speak, began in 1848 when Louis Brandt, while twenty-three years, has founded a watch company in the city of La Chaux-de-Ford, Switzerland. This company is the trade was the manufacture of precision pocket watches that have been assembled from movements that have been provided by merchants and artisans. These watches have been sold throughout Europe, Scandinavia countries all the way to Italy. They were the most popular, however, in Great Britain.
Business was good enough for several decades, but when Louis Brandt died in 1879 and his son, Caesar and Louis-Paul took control of the company, they felt that a radical change must be done. Dissatisfied by the high and low quality and sometimes sporadic distribution system that had been established in La Chaux-de-Ford, the brothers moved their operations to Biel and has developed a system production entirely in-house in which they could maintain an almost complete control of all production there.
By 1882, the company moved Once again, this time to what was once a factory is running in the district of Biel Gurzelen. But while three shots in four years may be suggested a possible instability of watch manufacturers of management, this concept has been completely put out to pasture since the current headquarters are at this point Omega even today. However, in the 1890s, Biel, Omega is out with their first mass produced templates, Gurzelen-Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as their size Omega 1894, which in particular was extremely important in setting up on the international map of Omega watches.
In 1903, two Cesar Brandt and Louis-Paul died, leaving one of the world's leading manufacturers no longer look to the operational control of four individuals, the eldest of Mr. Paul-Emile Brandt, was only twenty-four years. Omega was really a huge undertaking by then with about eight hundred employees and a total of nearly a quarter of a million timepieces made each year, so it was quite is an enormous risk to let such a juggernaut these young people … But as we see in the second part, the risk has paid very handsomely.
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