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Omega 4810.30.02 / 48103002: A tailored classic in leather and steel, the midsize mens DeVille 4810.30.02 adds a touch of refinement to your dress or casual wardrobe. The perfectly round steel case highlights a cream dial with slender silvertone hands, a seconds hand, and applied silvertone Arabic numerals and indicators. Seconds indexes add precise read-off to the clean-looking dial, and a window at the three oclock position reveals the automatic date calendar. The watch is showcased on a handsome dark brown crocodile-textured leather strap. Other notable features of this watch include precise Swiss quartz movement, a virtually scratch-proof sapphire crystal, and water resistance to 30 meters.
The Omega Story
The Omega watch story begins in 1848, when founder Louis Brandt began hand assembling key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen in his principality La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the northwest corner of Switzerland. However, the Omega name didnt appear until 1894, after Louis Brandt had passed away and his watchmaking traditions were taken over by his sons, Louis-Paul and Cesar Brandt. Omega watches have long been associated with glamorous screen and sports stars--the Omega Seamaster is famous for being the watch of choice for James Bond--with current ambassadors including Pierce Brosnan, Nicole Kidman, tennis player Anna Kournikova, and swimmers Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe.
But Omega is more than just a fashionable watch. In 1965, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was "flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions" as the only wristwatch to have withstood all of the U.S. space agencys severe tests, including passing grades for extreme shocks, vibrations, and temperatures ranging from -18 to +93 degrees Celsius. The greatest moment in the Speedmasters history was undoubtedly 20 July 1969 at 02:56 GMT, when it recorded mans first steps on the Moons surface as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Today, Omega is known for its rigorous testing of new movements, cases, and bands. Each new Omega movement is tested on the wrist in existing Omega models, while various laboratory tests are conducted to determine temperature-resistance, shock-resistance and vibration-resistance.
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