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John Goldberger has been collecting and studying vintage watches for over 25 years, which means he's spent many happy hours at jewelers' shops, flea markets, conventions and auctions around the world. His comprehensive and detailed illustrated book on the Omega family of Swiss timepieces is an indispensable asset to others who share his obsession, and to those who would love to--to armchair collectors. Omega Watches covers the history of more than 240 vintage models, with emphasis on their outer aspects--including the shape and outline of each case and its dial and movements, which are governing features for the collector, as well as clues to exceptional internal design. Goldberg has created a beautiful visual guide to Omega timepieces from the classic pocketwatch to the modern chronograph. Starting with the first models of the past century, Omega Watches displays the beauty, complexity and the collectibility of classic watches such as the Speedmaster, first produced in 1957, and the Seamaster, both of which are still produced today. All examples depicted are from private collections.

Rating : - Omega Wristwatches by Giampiero Negretti
This book should be sub-titled: " - an illustrated history". It is an extremly well illustrated book spanning almost the entire history of Omega from early pocket watches to recent Speedmasters from 2005. On every page there is a full-page detailed photograph of an Omega model with some minimum written text on Model name, Caliber and sometimes year of production. Though the text is minimal the photos are all in colour and in large format enabling details of each watch/model to be easily picked out. Not only many variations of the better known models but also less well known time-pieces, clocks, stop-watches and so on give a well rounded presentation of the brand. As such it is invaluable for collectors or anyone interested in Omega watches. For the quality of its photos and spectrum of models covered it gets 5/5. The minimal text brings that down to 4/5. Nevertheless I thoroughly recommend it.