Omega Official Timekeeper

AIPS Congress

Beijing, May 22nd, 2008

Omega has a unique and fundamental role as Official Timekeeper,

and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will mark the 23rd Olympic Games with

Omega in this role

History of the Swatch Group & Omega with the Olympic Games

From 1932 to 2006, 25 Olympic Games have been timed by one of the Swatch Group companies: Omega, Longines, Swatch and Swiss Timing.

In 2001, the International Olympic Committee and Swatch Group signed a long term « Master Marketing and Information Technology Agreement » covering 4 Olympic Games: Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010.

This Master Agreement has been recently extended to include the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Omega’s role

• Measure athlete’s performance >> Timekeeping and Scoring

• Make results out of these performance>> OVR

• Format these results for distribution >> scoreboards, TV (BOB, NBC), prints, WPNA, CIS, INFO, …

• Provide all necessary hardware (Except OVR IT)

UNVEILING CEREMONY - 21 Sept 2004

Beijing citizen Li Changxin, Athens Olympic Games gold medalist Wang Yifu, Liu Jingmin, Executive Vice President of BOCOG, Stephen Urquhart, President of OMEGA, middle-school student Wang Yu

Key Figures

• 28 sports on 37 venues• Staff

Team in Beijing since 2005

450 people of 19 nationalities

Over 1’000 volunteers• Material

420 tons of equipment

81 public scoreboards - 322 sports specific scoreboards

175 km  of cables and optic fiber for timekeeping and OVR.

65  TV generators  - HD only• Tests events

39 since July ‘07

SAILING

SAILING

EQUESTRIAN

EQUESTRIAN

CYCLING TRACK

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

SWIMMING

SWIMMING

Chronograph watch

1936

1 qualified watchmaker 38 chronographs

Since then …

• 1948 Racend Timer (Magic Eye)

…OMEGA

• 1952 Time recorder printer

…has ever been

• 1956 Swim-O-matic

… the most innovative

• 1964 Omegascope

… partner

• 1968 Touchpads

…of the athletes

• 1976 Matrix Video Board

… and the Olympic Movement

• 1984 False Start starting blocks

• 1992 Scan-O-vision