How far away are the days when a watchmaker watched alone over the proper functioning of thirty chronographs to record all the results at the Olympic Games.
It was in 1932 in Los Angeles on the occasion of Omega's first appearance as official timekeeper.
Almost 90 years later, the Swiss brand has set foot in Japan with 400 tons of equipment, 530 timekeepers and professionals, 350 scoreboards or even 200 kilometers of cable and optical fiber to set in stone every performance of the stadium gods.
To discover
The full Olympic program
The Olympic medal table
30 minutes to know the gold medalist in the 80m hurdles in Berlin
In twenty-nine Olympiads, Omega has had the time to perfect its measuring tools, keeping pace with technological innovations that have revolutionized the history of sport by helping to bring it into the era of modernity.
Twelve years after the Olympic Games in Berlin where it took thirty minutes to find out the name of the winner of the 80m hurdles because of the identical times of the first four (in 11''7), the watchmaker
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