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Caliber: automatic Lemania 1345 fly-back movement.įor a description of the Lemania caliber 1345 go to the Aquastar 1970′s section.

The Omega Regatta with Lemania 1345 movement. The caseback is unbranded, and the rotor is signed ‘Lemania’. Like the Heuer version, Omega counts the seconds up from zero to 60, instead of down from 60 to zero as the Aquastar, Tissot and Lemania models do. The left picture below was taken at the Omega museum. Only very rarely have I seen an Omega Regatta, with the Lemania 1345 movement as probably very few were sold. You can read an excellent review by Ilias Giannopoulos about the Omega Seamaster Yachting here.

Caliber: automatic Lemania 1341 movement (Omega 1040).

Omega Seamster Yachting, in steel and gold-plated.

One example is the Seamaster Yachting(with Lemania 1341 = Omega 1040 movement) with a 15 minute regatta scale along the outer edge of the dial.

It is therefor understandable that Lemania movements appeared in watches of all three brands, and also that Lemania produced some of the cases too. Though both brands remained independent, they were also joined in the group by Lemania in 1932 and the SSIH-group would eventually grow into the Swatch Group that we know today. In 1930, Omega and Tissot united to form an important Swiss watch group, the Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogére SA (SSIH). Omega Seamaster Chronostop, Chronostop Bullhead and Soccer, all with regatta scale. Apparently for both soccer and for yachting? ST 145.019, also with a rotating bezel with regatta scale. A bit of a strange combination is the later Omega Seamaster Soccer, ref. ST 146.011, with a 15 minute subdial, divided into 3 different coloured segments of 10 minutes each. There was also an Omega Seamaster Chronostop Bullhead, ref.

ST 145.008, with an internal rotating bezel (via the crown at 10 o’clock) with a coloured 15 minute regatta scale that could be set for the regatta countdown. One of the earlier models related to sailing was the Omega Seamaster Chronostop, ref. And who doesn’t know the Speedmaster which was strapped to the outside of Buzz Aldrin’s spacesuit, being the the first watch ever worn on the moon, on July 21, 1969. In 1932 Omega introduced the world’s first divers’ watch and the brand has been active in underwater adventures ever since. The brand has participated actively in some of the most challenging and fascinating adventures in the human history. Omega was founded in 1848 in Biel, Switzerland, by Louis Brandt and is today part of the Swatch Group.