1956 Omega Seamaster Automatic Wristwatch Model 2846 with Rare Cross Hair Dial age_1971/1980 Age : 2001/2010

Age : 2001/2010

the company had renamed itself Omega and only two years later were they the official timekeepers at many sporting events across Switzerland

My father has a collection off such pieces and you could say they are like smaller pocket watches on the wrist

This watch speaks for its self really

The export to America was organized by the general agency in New York

1956 Omega Seamaster Automatic Wristwatch Model 2846 with Rare Cross Hair Dial age_1971/1980 Age : 2001/2010This Watch The first Omega Seamasters was based loosely around waterproof watches made for the Royal Navy. What made the Seamaster appealing was using an O Ring gasket which gave it temperature and depth resistance. In 1955, the Swiss Laboratory for Watch Research tested out 50 Seamaster cases with a 60 meter depth rating. Omega was so confident that they strapped one to the outside of a plane and flew it over the North pole in 1956. The very year