Swatch did the time keeping for the event that was watched by 3.9 billion people around the world on television. Athens witnessed 44 times as many participants and 7 times as many events as in 1896. By the time Olympic Games returned to Athens in 2004, 108 years had gone by from the time of the first Olympic Games in Athens. Within 15 seconds of the winner hitting the touch pad, the results appeared on the net. Sydney in 2000 witnessed the time keeper Swatch utilizing the internet for the first time. Swatch GPS measured time for sailing regattas. The most notable was the ‘Global positioning system’ in the centenary games. Swatch brought 20 innovations to the 1996 Atlanta games. Atlanta, Sydney and Athens chose Swatch for time keeping. The younger and the more illustrious of the family, Swatch, took forward the mantle from Omega for the next three Olympics. Omega’s tryst with the Olympics continued at Moscow in 1980, followed by the 1984 Los Angeles games again and then to Seoul in 1988. Omega’s electronic score board was not designed for displaying 10.0, so the score was shown as 1.00. At the 1976 Montreal games, Nadia Comaneci created history by scoring a perfect 10.
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First full electronic time keeping was introduced in Mexico City in 1968 where Omega introduced ‘touch pads’. The 1960 Rome games witnessed the first black African Abebe Bikila winning a gold in the marathon. First semi automatic timing device with a digital display known as the eight-o-matic swim timer was introduced in Melborne in 1954. It is at Helsinki, that time recorders could record one hundredth of a second for the first time. Helsinki in 1952, received Quartz technology from Omega for the first time. Londoners nicknamed the gadget as the ‘Magic Eye’. In 1948, London witnessed the camera with a timer for the first time from the Omega company. The company had to then deploy a full time repair squad to attend to the chronographs. Omega of course, has the distinction of being the time keeper of the Olympic Games for the 24th time at Beijing.Īs the quadrennial games moved from Los Angeles to Berlin in 1940, Omega supplied 185 chronographs roughly 6 times the number as in Los Angeles.
This is a far cry from the Los Angeles games in 1932 where official time keeping by a watch company was introduced for the first time.Omega’s subsidiary Lemania manufactured stop watches with chronographs to be used for the first time in Olympics. Their styles are strong and unique and their craftsmanship very high. RR which features the trademark Rolls Grille as the body and face of the watch complete with a tiny hood ornament. One of the most exquisite and unusual design is their famous ‘Rolls Royce’. Admiral’s Cup, Coin watch, Romulus, Golden bridge and Bubble are all models with distinctive style. Why do so many watch makers keep producing variations of the same old style, decade after decade? Could not something fresh and new be done? And so, style innovation held the key to Corum during all these 50 years. From the outset Rene Bannwart was obsessed with the questions of style. The concept became an instant hit and has been copied by almost every watch maker in the last 50 years.Ĭorum has always been about style. The hour marking had been left out! With nothing else to do, Bannwart decided to call the model “Sans-Heures” (without – hours) and displayed the watch. Improvising at the last minute, Bannwart procured substitutes, but these only had Corum printed on them. In one of the brand’s marvelous moments of serendipity, the dial supplier of the new Corum model failed to deliver the dial in time. One of the early Corum models of the young watchmaker was getting ready to be displayed in a major exhibition in 1958.
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