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Omega Omega Seamaster Automatic NWW 2019

Omega Seamaster Automatic

Omega Seamaster automatic on the steel bracelet dating to around 1960. It has just been serviced and had a full movement overhaul and refurbished dial to make this an outstanding looking and working vintage automatic watch. The Seamaster is one of Omega’s lasting and enduring models and still made today, although the design has changed significantly over the years. It has got an automatic calibre 504 movement, which is durable and accurate, used in many of Omega’s top of the range watches. It comes on the original steel bracelet with folding clasp and centrap press lever to open the clasp. Attractive dial with brushed central circle, gold applied index markers and hands

Model: Omega Seamaster
Year of production: Approximately late 1950s to early 1960s
Case: Stainless steel
Case Back, Snap on case back
Strap: Original Omega steel bracelet, folding clasp, with depressing central lever to open the clasp
Crown: Original Omega signed
Crystal: Acrylic
Dial: Silver with gold applied index and hands
Movement: Automatic Omega calibre 504 Automatic
Dimensions Width is 34 mm, 36 mm including crown thickness is 11 mm, 42 mm lug to lug

Key Characteristics

Brand: Omega
Band: Steel Bracelet
Case Material: Steel
Condition: Excellent
Movement: Automatic
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Omega Watches. Founded at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 by 23-year-old Louis Brandt who assembled key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen. He travelled throughout Europe selling his watches from Italy to Scandinavia by way of England, his chief market. After Louis Brandt's death in 1879, his two sons Louis-Paul and Cesar, troubled by irregular deliveries of questionable quality, abandoned the unsatisfactory assembly workshop system in favour of in-house manufacturing and total production control. Due to the greater supply of manpower, communications and energy in Bienne, the enterprise moved into a small factory in January 1880, then bought the entire building in December. Two years later the company moved into a converted spinning-factory in the Gurzelen district of Bienne, where headquarters are still situated today. Their first series-produced calibres, Labrador and Gurzelen, as well as, the famous Omega calibre of 1894, would ensure the brand's marketing success. Louis-Paul and Cesar Brandt both died in 1903, leaving one of Switzerland's largest watch companies - with 240,000 watches produced annually and employing 800 people - in the hands of four young people, the oldest of whom, Paul-Emile Brandt, was not yet 24. Considered to be the great architect and builder of OMEGA, Paul-Emile's influence would be felt over the next half-century. The economic difficulties brought on by the First World War would lead him to work actively from 1925 toward the union of OMEGA and Tissot, then to their merger in 1930 within the group SSIH, Geneva. Under his leadership, then that of Joseph Reiser beginning in 1955, the SSIH Group continued to grow and multiply, absorbing or creating some fifty companies. By the seventies, SSIH had become Switzerland's number one producer of finished watches and number three in the world. Weakened by the severe monetary crisis and recession of 1975 to 1980, SSIH was bailed out by the banks in 1981. Switzerland's other watchmaking giant ASUAG, principal producer of movement blanks and owner of the Longines, Rado and Swatch brands, was saved in similar fashion one year later. After drastic financial cleansing and a restructuring of the two groups' R&D and production operations at the ETA complex in Granges, the two giants merged in 1983 to form the Holding ASUAG-SSIH. In 1985 the holding company was taken over by a group of private investors under the strategy and leadership of Nicolas Hayek. Immediately renamed SMH, Société suisse de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie, the new group achieved rapid growth and success to become today's top watch producer in the world. Named Swatch Group in 1998, it now includes Blancpain and Breguet. Dynamic and flourishing, OMEGA remains one of its most prestigious flagship brands