By Roberta Naas Friday, August 5, 2016, marks the start of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, which take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and run through Sunday, August 21. Omega Watches once again – for the 28th time -- acts as the Official Timekeeper of the Olympics – and is more than ready with incredible new state-of-the-art timing technology, and with new watches honoring the prestigious

By Victoria Townsend Omega has been giving us an early taste of the Games with exclusive exhibitions that retrace Olympic history, while at the same time presenting the latest Seamaster Planet Ocean Collection. First launched in 2005, the 2016 collection sees some major changes, inside and out.

By Roberta Naas As the 98th PGA Championship is in full swing, Rory McIlroy, Omega brand ambassador, shares his thoughts with us about time and golf and the Baltusrol course.

By Roberta Naas It was eight years ago that the United Nations officially recognized June 8 as World Oceans Day. Today, we celebrate globally our Earth’s seas and our working together to keep them clean and healthy. Not only are organizations around the world fighting for this cause, but so, too, are a host of watch brands. Among them: Jaeger-LeCoultre, Rolex, Blancpain, Omega, IWC and a few others who offer everything from creating timepieces with proceeds going to organizations, to sponsorships of projects and expeditions, and more.

By Victoria Townsend In management positions with Omega from 1968 to 1974 before joining Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Blancpain until 1999, Stephen Urquhart returned to Omega on June 1st 1999 as President of the company, where he has remained until today. We were happy to meet with him during Baselworld 2016, shortly before the official announcement of his retirement today, May 31st 2016.

By Roberta Naas This upcoming weekend (May 7-8) in New York signifies something incredible: America’s Cup racing returns to the city for the first time since 1920 in the form of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series races. With it, three top watch brands -- Bremont, Ulysse Nardin and Omega – get involved in a big way, each hoping their team sails to the win.

By Victoria Townsend Shop Manager Christophe Debon had more than a Globemaster up his sleeve when he welcomed us to the Omega Boutique on the rue de Sèvres in Paris last week. With historic pieces on loan from the Omega museum in Bienne, Monsieur Debon had more than fifty years of pie-pan dials, fluted bezels and precision instruments “to make the link between the brand’s history, the Constellation, and the Globemaster Master Chronometer” he told us. “Not everyone goes to Bienne, and in addition to bringing the pieces to customers here, they actually get to try them on, something they would not be able to do in the Museum” he added.

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