OMEGA POCKET WATCH MANUAL

From here through Denmark and on to Wentworth, it's a big run for the DP World Tour, and with Ryder Cup venues and a return to St Andrews soon afterwards, the next six weeks will make for fabulous viewing.įor now of course it all happens without the genuine superstars, who are still scrapping for the FedEx Cup, but to be frank it could be a satellite tour event and Crans-sur-Sierre would still be worth tuning in for. This is just to say the search for these watches and any information about them doesn’t seem to be stopping.Three of the top 10 in the Race to Dubai are in Switzerland for the Omega European Masters, a fabulous event on a unique golf course and one which marks the turning of the tide after a post-Open lull. I recently managed to pick up one new pocket watch, almost identical to my previous one, except this has the Lion Of Judah embossed on the back.

While I am not that great at spotting redialed watches based on their pictures, and since the people selling them don’t speak Amharic the writing on the dial is sometimes upside down. There is one that I’ve seen that is in impeccable condition, while most of the rest are hurt by very obvious redials. While finding any form of scholarship on this watch is pretty much laughable at this point, it has not meant I haven’t seen a few examples floating around the Internet. And this list is the only written mention of a pocket watch that could resemble mine, at least that I’ve managed to find. Southerland, lists the popular pocket watches of the time. About 6 paragraphs on the state of the Ethiopian watch market at that time and in one of these paragraphs the author, General Council Addison E. Form the age of the watch, to it being Ethiopian, there seemed to be nothing really written about a watch that could resemble this one.Īt this point I would just like to thank google for doing the impossible for me, I found a reference to the Ethiopian watch market on a 1929 USA commerce report. Finding any form of written information about this type of watch really seemed impossible. Since they could not really tell me why or for whom it was produced I began my tedious search to find out myself. I came to learn the manufacture year for the case, 1906-08, that sadly the hands are broken and that the watch had been serviced. Omega sent it off to their valuation company and it came back with basic information, but to me that was so much more than I knew about it at that point. I’m not gonna lie, I don’t think they really knew much about it. Not knowing anything about pocket watches or of the existence of any Ethiopian market watches I bought the watch and had it sent off to Omega immediately. Being Ethiopian myself I recognised the language, the lion, and if it was real, the importance of owning a little bit of history. This lion, with a crown on its head and holding the cross sceptre looks as if it’s standing in grass, an iconic symbol of past Ethiopian Emperors. On the back of this small 48mm pocket watch stands a lion, but not merely any lion, The Lion of Judah. A great cure for that would be to flip the pocket watch to reveal the intricate engraving on the back.

So far this pocket watch would, at best, garner mild curiosity from a few watch admirers. Even more obscurely these words are written in Amharic using the Ge’ez alphabet, the native alphabet of Ethiopia. This doesn’t really mean a lot to people in the watch community, and truthfully it’s just the name of a city and neighbourhood in Ethiopia. On the dial of this typical looking watch were the words Addis Abeba / Bole.

OMEGA POCKET WATCH MANUAL

A beautiful manual wind Omega pocket watch from 1906/8. So, for the past year I’ve been searching for anything I can find on a piece I stumbled upon on eBay. Emperor Haile Selase and was auction by Christie’s in 2017. After a few pages of this you will most probably end up with the most famous watch with an Ethiopian connection a black dial Patek Philippe 2497. When you first search for “Ethiopian watches” the first few pages of google are going to either be fake watches for sale in Ethiopia or just a watch and no connection with Ethiopia.