The Omega Speedmaster is a 50th Anniversary commemorative timepiece of the legendary Limited Series release of the Speedmaster Moonwatch. The Omega Speedmaster 50th Anniversary is a limited and numbered edition of 1957 pieces. Its limited edition number is printed on the black dial and this watch displays the main features of the Speedmaster professional Chronograph watches.
The Speedmaster is known as the first watch to have been worn on the Moon. To commemorate this milestone, Omega pays tribute to the year 1957 when the Speedmaster was first launched. This was a limited production of 57 pieces of each of the three gold versions of the Moonwatch. And this models is a tribute to the original 1957 pieces of the stainless steel version, making the Ref. 311.33.42.50.01.001 an exclusive collector's item.

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Omega was founded by Louis Brandt at La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 as a assembly workshop. In 1879, after his death, his two sons Louis Paul and Caesar started the in-house manufacturing so they started having total production control. One year later, Omega moved into a small factory that became a huge one when 12 months later they bought the entire building. In 1903, they both died leaving the company in 24 years old, Paul Emile Brandt hands. Because of the crisis that the Second World War left, he had to work really hard in order to face the economic difficulties. He merged Omega with Tissot calling the new company SSIH. The SSIH group continued to grow and multiply under his leadership and, by the seventies, it had become Switzerland number one producer of finished watches and number three in the world. In 1985, the holding company was taken over by a group of private investors under Nicolas Hayek leadership. It was immediately renamed SMH (Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie). SMH had a rapid growth and success becoming today's top watch producer in the world. Named Swatch Group in 1998, it now includes Blancpain and Breguet.