The amazing everyday wristwatch: We never think about it, but only because engineers have made it so reliable and durable that we don't need to.

A commercial for Orient Watches,

Estabilished in 1848 in La-Chaux-de-Fonds by Louis Brandt and later moved to Bienne (its current premises) in 1880, Omega became the company it is today only at the beginning of the last century. Indeed, prior to this the Louis Brandt products..