Founded in 1848 by Louis Brandt, it was not until 1894 that the watch brand, Omega, received the name we know it by today.

Named after a groundbreaking watch caliber that Brandt's sons conceived, which they had inscribed with the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Ω, the letter omega signalled the ultimate achievement. The end game. In Biblical texts, originally written in Greek, God was described as the alpha and the omega—the beginning and the end—the encapsulation of anything and everything that could possibly be described by mankind in the Greek alphabet. Alpha was where things began. Omega marked the finish.

While unequivocally hyperbolic in retrospect, given how much further the precision and reliability of mechanical timekeeping has progressed, the achievement that Louis-Paul and César Brandt made through the realization of their company's OMEGA caliber was, indeed, notable for its time. The newfound Omega Watch Co.'s premier caliber was among the very first in Switzerland to feature keyless winding and setting, and their system of fully interchangeable parts, via technologies borrowed from their American counterparts, paved the way for them to become the largest manufacturer of finished watches in Switzerland.