Omega Omega Seamaster GMT Great White OME 663
Omega Seamaster GMT Great White
Mint condition Omega Seamaster Professional Divers GMT watch rated to 300 metres. It comes with the original box but no papers, but does come with an Omega service receipt showing that it was serviced by Omega in Australia at a cost of AUD $520 in 2013. This is a hugely successful watch popularised by the James Bond character as portrayed by Pierce Brosnan. It is indeed worthy of it's commercial success, not by the fact that it is a James Bond watch, but by virtue of the fact that it is indeed an outstanding, high quality professionally rated certified chronometer. This is an outstanding watch. It is a different variation than the traditional Seamaster, in that it has a GMT hand on it which can be independently set. This is useful for cross time zone travel, calculating flight plans, or simply needing to know what the time is in another country. The GMT hand rotates the dial once every 24 hours and therefore has a 24 hour rotating bezel. The bezel also indicates day and night as it is part silver and part black. The bezel is b direction and ratchet operated. The crown is screwed down and the crystal is scratch resistant sapphire. Has a date at 3, full size bracelet with hidden deployment clasp, screw on back with large Omega Seamonster logo, wave pattern. Dimensions are: width is 42.5 mm excluding crown, 45 mm including crown and 47 mm lug to lug and thickness is 13 mm.
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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