Customer Reviews

Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes

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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.

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.

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.

While this book is a worthwhile addition to the enthusiastic watch-collector's library, that worth rests only on the quality of the photographs. The author is a well-known Austrian writer on horological subjects; unfortunately, the awkwardly rendered translation does little credit to either the author or the publisher

It amazes me that a well-known maker as Omega has a paucity of books in print detailing the history and products of this renowned maker (at least in English). Other than a hard to get and doubtless expensive official history, this leaves the gentle reader with this book by Mr. Kreuzer. A translation from German, this book is an exception to the overall thoroughness inherent in the German horological press. The history of Omega is very general and reads almost like a sales brochure from the company itself. Little effort is given to chronicling product development, especially in the era following WW 2, the most prolific period for the company and of most interest to collectors. Much better in this respect is the book "Tale of the Seamaster" by Messrs. Nakamura and Noda (Tokyo, World Photo Press). Unfortunately, this is in Japanese. On a positive note, the section in the back of the book detailing Omega movements is quite helpful, and I have often used it to identify watches.

A very disjointed and confused book.Very little useful information,the author seems to jump suddenly from one area to another,without fully covering his original subject.Many other books cover Omega designs in a much better way.I would not recommend this book.Also the book was supplied in a slightly damaged condition,it was sold as a new book but did not appear to be new.

A good informative reference book for the watch collector , with stunning photos of Omega Watches through the years.

If you love Omega watch and their mechanical, you will need this reference book. Omega watch is very famous not only the rich people can collected, this book is valuable for watch collectors as a reference, especially the movement part.

great explanations on the concept of omega watche

Zero contents on the history of Omega, the movements, rare watches etc