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 Tokyo 2021 finally started and, for the 29th time in history, Omega is serving as the Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games continuing a unique partnership that started almost 90 years ago. The Los Angeles Games in 1932 marked the first time that responsibility for Olympic timekeeping had been assigned to a single company: Omega. At the previous Games in Amsterdam, timekeepers had used their own stopwatches. In 1932, for the first time replicas de relojes , 30 calibrated chronographs would provide unprecedented precision. In 1936, a suitcase containing 185 stopwatches travelled from Basel to Berlin for the Olympic Games that would be remembered for the great Jesse Owens. The Second World War meant a 12 year gap before the Games would return in London, in 1948.  Omega had provided more than 50% of all the military timepieces - watches, wristwatches and pocket watches - to the Allied forces, including the Royal Airforce pilots flew. Such a huge effort had an impact on the ti...

 "At Roger Dubuis, excess and madness are part of our DNA," said brand CEO Nicolas Andreatta in a video welcoming attendees to the 2021 virtual Watches & Wonders show. What you're looking at might be the most excessive Roger Dubuis watch this year. Prized since ancient times for rarity, value, and the capacity to reflect and refract light, the diamond sits at the very top of the jewelry-making pyramid. It's the ultimate medium for ornamental luxury; and watchmakers, replicas relojes working in a jewelry-adjacent craft, have of course been known to use them too. In addition to tourbillons and movements skeletonized to within an inch of their life, Roger Dubuis has got the carats. But sometimes, even a blinged-out skeleton tourbillon ain't enough excess. The rocks in the Roger Dubuis Excalibur line have something we've never seen before in a watch. Roger Dubuis has applied Super-LumiNova to them, letting the bling sing when the midnight hour rings. Each of ...