‘Synchronise your watches’ for a £3200 Weems
On January 4, 1940, the London subsidiary of the Omega Watch Co received an urgent order from the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company for 2000 watches intended for Royal Air Force crews. Delivery was to be made by March 10, 1940.
The design they followed was one invented five years earlier by the US naval officer and navigatio…