1. Jonathan Nelson,June 15th2016
The start of OMEGA with the Olympic Games
Story:
 In 1930 S.A.L.B.F. wins firstplace at the Kew-Teddington competition with
one of their chronometers at the National PhysicalLaboratory in
Teddington, New England..
 In 1930 S.A.L.B.F. as wellplaces 1st
in all the 6 categories at the Geneva
Observatory.
 In 1931 atthe Geneva Observatory, S.A.L.B.F. breaks thechronometer
world record in all the categories.
 These accomplishments is whatled the InternationalOlympic Committee
(IOC) to chooseS.A.L.B.F. (later known as OMEGA) to be the official
timekeepers of the Olympic Games.
o "The choice of OMEGA to supply the mostaccurate, consistently
precise and reliable timekeeping equipment was firstmade by the
InternationalOlympic Committee."
 A section from The WristWatch Review, online journal, by the
author John Biggs on January 13th
2006 (His sources are
unknown)
 We believe the IOCcontacted Wood and Sons Inc., the only branch of
S.A.L.B.F. in the United States at the time as the "Thank You Letter" was
sent to them. (When and how they contacted them is still unknown).
o We are trying to retrieve documents which explains how this process
occurred (letters, documents, contracts)
 We have contacted the National PhysicalLaboratory Archivist
in Teddington, England to try and recover the KEW Certificates
awarded to the chronometers.
 In 2007 all previous KEW Certificates were transferred to
the National Maritime Museumin London.

2. Jonathan Nelson,June 15th2016
 S.A.L.B.F. loans 30 calibre 3889A chronometers to the IOC.
o These chronometers wererequired by the InternationalAssociation
of Athletics Federations had to be tested and had to receive a "Class-
A Kew Certificate" in order to be used during the Olympic Games.
 This testing was done at the National PhysicalLaboratory in
Teddington, England
 We are still unsureaboutthe movement of these chronometers when they
were sent to be tested. Here are the possibilities:
o 1: S.A.L.B.F. (Bienne)  Woods and Sons (New York)  IOC  NPL
o 2: S.A.L.B.F. (Bienne)  IOC  NPL
o 3: S.A.L.B.F. (Bienne)  NPL
 After the Olympics Games on August18th
, 1932 theIOCsentan official
letter to the Woods and Sons Inc. thanking them for loaning the 30 "highly
satisfactory" chronometers.
Further Research:
 National Maritime Museum in London  KEW Certificates fromthe 30
chronometers
 InternationalOlympic Committee  letters, documents, contracts on the
initial contact between S.A.L.B.F. and the IOC