Visit to OMEGA Museum Part C: Olympics and sports time keeping

The next room that we will enter is the main hall of the museum. There are 5 themes reside in here: Olympics & timekeeping, Space & flight, Official, Movies and Deep exploration. In this part we will focus on Olympics and sports time keeping, a tradition that Omega proudly retained until now.


This is what the main hall looks like



This is the first wall with Olympics and sports time keeping theme:
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.....and this is the next window wall......

Olympic Participation

Case no 40 Early Olympics Chronograph

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Case no 41 First interlinking sports timekeeping chronograph. Firing pistol will trigger the stopwatch start. The ending still manual


Case 42 Later stopwatch chronograph


Case 43 First fully automated start and stop chronograph for timekeeping. The start button is linked to the pistol and the stop button linked to the finish ribbon


Letter of acknowledgement from Olympic Committe


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Case 44 Olympics watches


Seamaster Polaris Titane Olympic edition



Very lovely Seamaster Olympic Melbourne Cross merit with complete box and Cross Merit replica


Seamaster Olympic Mexico


Seamaster Polaris Analog digital Olympic edition


Chrono quartz Olympic edition


Case no 45 Luxury Olympic Pocket watches



Platinum Olympic chronograph pocket watch


Gorgeous Gold Olympic skeleton chronograph pocket watch



Very beautiful Rose Gold Olympic skeleton chronograph pocket watch



Another very fine Gold Olympic skeleton chronograph pocket watch


Last Gold Olympic chronograph pocket watch in the case....they are all beautiful, aren't they?

FIFA Participation

Case no 46 FIFA watches....Viva la Soccer....


Omega FIFA soccer chronograph with 45 minutes mark......


Seamaster with flightmaster case Soccer watch


Wrist chronograph Stop watch


Aepna style Soccer chronograph stop wrist watch

Timekeeping equipment

Omega developed many timekeeping equipment without normal stop watches form. That's including weight sensitive timer, photo finish and robot timer.

Timing equipment wall


Track launch trigger timer


Swimming timing equipment, start trigger at the launch pad and stop trigger at the finish wall. The first generation required 500 gram pressure to activate finish wall sensor, which make athletes trained their most effective finish technique.



The later swimming finish sensor only need 5 gram pressure, a touch of finger will trigger the timer stop mechanism. No need to train special finish technique.

Photo finish ...... to ensure in deciding the winner by literally split second.


Robot timer that could following timing of multiple athletes automatically


First electronic timer equipment


END OF PART C

Love these, but you would think the Omega museum's display model would have crisper lugs.

Keep it coming H, this is good stuff.

I know.........some of the museum stuff is not in tip-top condition.

Thanks.......Next chapter will take a little bit longer because that's the biggest area (Space and Flight)

I wonder what a thread comparing all the different Omega Olympics toys year by year from then till now would look like 🍿

Still counting down with you Herianto and loving the tour! 👍