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This is what a rugged sport watch looked like in 1948. 1957 was a big year for Omega as it introduced the Speedmaster collection as well as the Seamaster 300, a dive watch as we’d recognize it today.

The watch sold for 1,428,500 Swiss francs ($1,441,091 at the time of the sale), representing its enormous value and importance to Omega’s history. In 1957, Omega released what’s today known as ...

Omega’s first Seamaster dive watch didn’t debut until a decade later in 1957 with the Seamaster 300, and the classic “Bond” Seamaster — the Diver 300M — has only been around since 1993. Omega is the ...

The watch was bought by Omega itself for 3.115 million Swiss francs ... The item was thought to be a 1957 stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with Broad Arrow hands, and was described by ...

The watch sold for 1,428,500 Swiss francs ($1,441,091 at the time of the sale), representing its enormous value and importance to Omega’s history. In 1957, Omega released what’s today known as ...

In any discussion of the world’s most famous—and most coveted—watches, you won’t get far without mention of the Omega Speedmaster. Born in 1957, a full five years before the Rolex Daytona ...

and Bloomberg it was investigating former staffers who it said conspired to get Omega to buy the watch at a hugely inflated price. The 1957 Speedmaster "Broad Arrow" was auctioned in November 2021 ...

The first Speedmaster debuted in 1957. It was first worn in ... as NASA engineer Jim Regan worked with Omega to prototype improvements to the watches worn into orbit and to the moon.