Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes [Hardcover]

Anton Kreuzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Series: Feast for the Eyes

Omega has become the watchmaker with the highest name recognition in timekeeping for personal and sports events worldwide. If the father owned an Omega, so does the son. This important, color illustrated, new book presents, an illustrated description of all the watch movements manufactured by the Omega Watch Co. since the registration of its trademark in 1894. Over 400 watches are shown in 80 color and 334 black and white photographs. Started as a small watchmaker shop in Biel, Switzerland in 1848, the company expanded to Geneva and has made precision pocket and wristwatches including the world famous chronometer wristwatch Constellation, the diver's watch Seamaster, and the chronograph wristwatch Speedmaster Professional.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076430058X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764300585
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,171,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For Really Serious Omega Collectors Only, June 14, 2000

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Christopher Keene (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes (Hardcover)

With a far from comprehensive collection of color photographs of vintage Omega's, a smattering of vintage ad reproductions, and a barely comprehensible company history, this book's only saving grace is the illustrated history of Omega movements.

If you need more movement info than can be found in Cooksey-Shugart, buy this book. Otherwise your money is better spent on something more generic, like (Heinz Hampel's) Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Omega collector's must have book, August 10, 2002

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"mike_p5594" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes (Hardcover)

If you are interested in more than how Omega watches look and need to know what's inside them, this book is a great resource. As a collector it's frustrating to see watches listed for sale with movement calibers listed, but not have a source of information that provides details on the movements. For Omega watches only, this book seems to be definitive in this area. I also enjoyed the descriptions of the major Omega lines and the other information on the company, although it's far from comprehensive. I would only recommend this book if you want or need the technical data on the Omega movements.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A musthave for every Omega collector/fanatic, December 15, 1999

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Robert Jan Broer (Voorburg, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes (Hardcover)

This book tells the long history of Omega and describes all watchlines (Constellation, Deville, Seamaster, Speedmaster etc) very well. There is not much depth, but the book do give you a lot of information about the used movements, great photos and information on all watchlines by Omega. For indepth stories about how watches work, buy Chronograph Wristwatches : To Stop Time; Reinhard Meis, Gerd R. Lang or Wristwatch Chronometers : Mechanical Precision Watches and Their Testing; Fritz Von Osterhausen.