Vintage Omega Globemaster...

[ricardopalamino]

I just acquired this Vintage Omega Globemaster . I understand that it is probably a Norman Morris version that was offered in the mid 1900's in the US and was cased in the US to get around the hurdle of tariffs imposed at the time to protect US made watches .  I am still in the process to learn what I can about this watch and think it probably has had a few small modifications in it's past .  I don't know if the hands are original and the crown is not signed , ...but it does say Swiss on the dial , and not Swiss Made as I have read was marked on these pieces. It has an Genuine Omega Alligator watchband in size " R ".

 

http://www.omega-fanatic.com/pages/omega-info/globemaster.php

Norman M. Morris, an entrepreneur and philanthropist Born in Austria-Hungary, he was brought to New York at the age of 3. He got his start in the watch business as a delivery boy for an importer at 15 and went to school at night.

By the time he turned 25, he had opened his own company and then spent his career dealing in high-market watches. By 1933 he had become the country's sole distributor of Omega watches from Switzerland and later brought other prestigious brands, like Tissot and Audemars Piguet, into the American market.

He was an early promoter of pink gold, an alloy of copper and gold used in the watch industry. It became popular with the Art Deco styles of the 1920's and 1930's and remains in fashion today.

 

 

[wls1971]

Nice, but I definetly think the hands are the correct shape and style but look silver I would have thought they would have been gold to match the case colour and as you have already guessed the crown is not the original apart from that I would say its pretty much as it should be. 

More info here :

http://users.tpg.com.au/mondodec//Globemasterpost.pdf

[ricardopalamino]

Thanks wls1971 for the info .  I am not sure what to make of the crown . I know that it is not signed with the Omega logo , but since it was cased in the US , stem size would match the case and may have been fitted with a generic crown . As I said I don't know which adds to the mystery . I did read that Norman Morris did use poetic license when assembling his watches .

  The hands are silver and I agree that they would have matched the case .  I entertained the thought of changing the hands and crown . but I think I will leave well enough alone .