Omega Speedmaster Professional

Out of all of the watch designers who have ever put pen to paper, we perhaps owe the most to one man: Albert Piguet.  As one can deduce from his surname, Albert Gustave Piguet had horology in the blood. He was a distant cousin of Edward-Auguste Piguet (founder of Audemars-Piguet), and his father, Henri Auguste, served as Director of Zenith. Born in 1915, he attended watchmaking school in Le Sentier in the Vallée du Joux.  Upon finishing school, he found himself at Lemania at one of the most pivotal points in horological history.  In the early 1930s, the Swiss watch industry was in a state of turmoil. Faced with complete collapse after the Great Depression, brands that had once been rivals—Omega and Tissot—banded together in 1930 to form Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère or SSIH. Two years later, Lemania would join. When Piguet came to Lemania as chair of its technical division, the manufacture was in a unique position. Thanks to an influx of capital from Omega, Lemania was allo