Omega Aluminum

Few luxury watch brands have more to offer entry-level buyers than Omega. The Swiss manufacturer has plenty of models to choose from, including some legendary timepieces priced below $6,000.

  Omega was founded in 1848 by Louis Brandt in La Chaux-de-Fonds, mainly as an assembly firm that used parts supplied by local watchmakers and craftsmen to produce precision pocket watches. Although Omega was relocated to Bienne a long time ago, the goal to create high precision time pieces never changed. While most of you are probably familiar with the Speedmaster Moonwatch, the Seamaster and Planet Ocean models, let’s not forget about the long road it took to get where they are today, developing and manufacturing in-house movements with Co-Axial escapements and using very specific materials to fight magnetism from the movement (not the case). Omega won a lot of prestigious awards for delivering the most accurate movements in the…