OMEGA’s story begins over 175 years ago, when Louis Brandt started his watchmaking workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1848. By 1903, after perfecting an interchangeable-parts system that revolutionized precision timekeeping, the company adopted the name “Omega” and gradually established a reputation as a top destination for timepieces.
That reputation was solidified at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, where OMEGA won the Grand Prize—the highest honor at the fair—in recognition of innovations that outshone every other exhibitor during a golden age of scientific progress.
