EzyCash Gold Buyers will pay a top cash price for all brands of luxury Swiss watches including Breitling watches, Tag Heuer watches, Omega watches, Tissot watches and IWC watches.

EzyCash Gold Buyers also pay top cash prices for Rolex watches – arguably the most well known of luxury Swiss watch brands.  But how did Rolex watches achieve this popularity?

Rolex was started in 1905 by a German watchmaker and his British business partner.  They called the company Rolex because the word Rolex was easy to spell and pronounce in many languages.

From the beginning, Rolex watches had received awards and certificates for accuracy but it was in the 1920s and 30s that Rolex watches started to make their mark.  Here are three significant milestones in the history of Rolex as a luxury watch brand:

• In 1926, Rolex bought the patent for a new water-proof winding stem and button.  After this, Rolex produced the Rolex ‘Oyster’ – the first watch with a waterproof case.  To help with the marketing campaign, Rolex gave their watch to Mercedes Gleitze, the first woman to swim the English Channel.  She wore this Rolex watch on her second attempt at swimming the Channel in 1927.
• In 1931, Rolex created the first self-winding, perpetual watch.  This had been a dream for the Rolex watch team for some time.  The new mechanisms that made this watch possible had to be held in a thicker casing so this Rolex watch was nicknamed the Rolex ‘Bubbleback’.
• In 1937, Rolex produced the first chronograph watch.  The chronograph is a stopwatch with a separate second hand on the watch which can be started, stopped and reset to zero.

Today, Rolex is the largest luxury watch brand in the world, making about 2000 Rolex watches per day.  And Rolex is committed to quality – they even have an institute where 12 students per year are trained in the art of mechanical watch repair.

If you have a Rolex watch or a watch from another luxury Swiss watch brand, bring it in to EzyCash Gold Buyers store in Panmure,Aucklandfor a top cash price.  Ezy Cash Gold Buyers also pay top prices for gold, silver and diamonds so come and see us today.

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Omega watches have a long and proud history and is now one of the most well-respected luxury watch brands in the world.

Omega watches was started in 1848 by Louis Brandt who hand-made precision Omega watches in a tiny workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds,Switzerland.  Brandt died in 1879 and left the business to his two sons.  They started to think bigger, taking Omega watches into a larger manufacturing context and gaining control of the whole production process.

From there, Omega watches have gone from strength to strength, becoming unique not only because of the quality of their watches but due to their association with the Olympic Games, the American moon landings and even James Bond.

Omega watches and the Olympic Games

Omega watches have been official timekeepers for the Olympics since theLos Angelesgames in 1932.  Over the last 70 years, Omega watches have pioneered several technological advances in the sporting arena:

• In 1945 Omega watches introduced the first photo-finish camera for athletic competitions.
• In 1966 Omega watches kept time electronically for the first time at that years European Athletics Championships.
• A year later Omega watches invented ‘contact-pads’ for swimming races – the time would only be stopped once the swimmer touched the pad at the end of the race and was not affected by water splashes.

This years London Olympics will be a significant milestone for Omega watches, being their 25^th Olympic Games.

Omega watches and the moon landings

The quality of Omega watches was again confirmed when they were used officially by NASA.

Omega watches have been used by NASA astronauts since the Mercury missions of the early 1960s.  During the initial moon landing, Neil Armstrong taped his Omega Speedmaster watch to the console of the spaceship which meant Buzz Aldrin was the first person to wear a watch (another Omega Speedmaster watch) on the surface of the moon.

Omega watches were also critical to the rescue of the infamous Apollo 13 mission in 1970.  The air cylinders in the spaceship exploded and the astronauts were forced to improvise systems to save their lives.  At one point the thruster had to be fired to alter their course – an action that couldn’t be done by computer but had to be completed to within a fraction of a second.

With the use of astronaut Jim Lovell’s Omega watch, the operation was a success and the ship came back to Earth safely.

Omega watches and James Bond

Since 1995’s ‘Goldeneye’ with Pierce Brosnan, 007 has worn an Omega watch.  Specifically, Bond has worn an Omega Seamaster watch with blue dials.  Daniel Craig is set to wear an Omega watch in the latest Bond instalment, ‘Skyfall’, which is due out later this year.

If you have any of these Omega watches, come by the EzyCash Gold Buyers store in Panmure, Auckland for an expert valuation and a top cash price.  You’ll also get a top cash price for a Tissot watch, a Breitling watch, a Rolex watch, a Patek Phillippe watch and more.  Any Swiss luxury watch will receive a top cash price at Ezy Cash Gold Buyers, Panmure, Auckland.

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