Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes

By Anton Kreuzer

Omega has become the watchmaker with the highest name recognition in timekeeping for personal and sports events worldwide. If the father owned an Omega, so does the son. This important color-illustrated new book presents, an illustrated description of all the watch movements manufactured by the Omega Watch Co. since the registration of its trademark in 1894. Over 400 watches are shown in 80 color and 334 black and white photographs. Started as a small watchmaker shop in Biel, Switzerland in 1848, the company expanded to Geneva and has made precision pocket and wristwatches including the world famous chronometer wristwatch Constellation, the diver's watch Seamaster, and the chronograph wristwatch Speedmaster Professional.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076430058X
• ISBN13: 9780764300585
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good reference for the watch collector

A good informative reference book for the watch collector , with stunning photos of Omega Watches through the years.

An Omega collector's must have book

If you are interested in more than how Omega watches look and need to know what's inside them, this book is a great resource. As a collector it's frustrating to see watches listed for sale with movement calibers listed, but not have a source of information that provides details on the movements. For Omega watches only, this book seems to be definitive in this area. I also enjoyed the descriptions of the major Omega lines and the other information on the company, although it's far from comprehensive. I would only recommend this book if you want or need the technical data on the Omega movements.

A musthave for every Omega collector/fanatic

This book tells the long history of Omega and describes all watchlines (Constellation, Deville, Seamaster, Speedmaster etc) very well. There is not much depth, but the book do give you a lot of information about the used movements, great photos and information on all watchlines by Omega. For indepth stories about how watches work, buy Chronograph Wristwatches : To Stop Time; Reinhard Meis, Gerd R. Lang or Wristwatch Chronometers : Mechanical Precision Watches and Their Testing; Fritz Von Osterhausen.

good

great explanations on the concept of omega watche

I love this book!!

If you love Omega watch and their mechanical, you will need this reference book. Omega watch is very famous not only the rich people can collected, this book is valuable for watch collectors as a reference, especially the movement part.