Whois & Analysis for omegawatches.com

Jewellery or jewelry consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.

For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used.

It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.

Historically, the most widespread influence on jewellery in terms of design and style have come from Asia.

A watch is a small timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

It is designed to keep working despite the motions caused by the person's activities.

A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or other type of bracelet.

A pocket watch is designed for a person to carry in a pocket.

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe.

It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.

Horology (via Latin horologium from Greek, from hṓra "hour; time" and -o- interfix and suffix -logy; literally "the study of time") is the art and/or science of measuring time.

Ancient Sanskrit language has a similar word hora (होरा) meaning hour.

This word is also used as a measurement of time.Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time.

In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping devices, while chronometry more broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping.

Omega SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

Britain's Royal Flying Corps chose Omega watches in 1917 as its official timekeepers for its combat units, as did the American army in 1918.

Omega watches were the choice of NASA and the first watch on the Moon in 1969.

Omega has been the official timekeeping device of the Olympic Games since 1932.

James Bond has worn it in films since 1995; other famous Omega wearers, past and present, include John F. Kennedy, Prince William, George Clooney, and Buzz Aldrin.

Omega is owned by the Swatch Group.