Omega Seamaster

26.01.10

CANADA. As the 2010 Winter Olympics loom, Swiss watch brand Omega has looked back on 74 years of official timekeeping at the event.

As the giant Omega Countdown Clock in Vancouver marches towards the Opening Ceremony on 12 February, Omega’s professionals are preparing for the competition where, for the 24th time, the Swiss specialists will serve as official timekeepers at the Olympic Games. On 12 March, they will play the same role at the Paralympic Games.

At Omega’s first timekeeping assignment for the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1936, a lone Omega technician brought 27 stopwatches which were used to time each event.

Some 70 years later in Turin, Omega deployed 208 professionals – 127 timekeepers and 81 data handlers – armed with 220 tons of equipment.

Omega will exceed these numbers at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as it mobilises the largest timekeeping contingent in the history of winter sport.

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