On a similar note, there are a couple of sellers on eBay who regularly list Omega DeVilles as 'Andrew Grima' watches. Andrew Grima was a fashionable jeweller who did design some watches for Omega, but not this one – I know, because I wrote to his daughter and she was unequivocal about it. But then Omega were seemingly casual about taking his designs and making them their own, at least that's how it appears to me.
Grima did some wild designs in conjunction with Omega in the 1960s, very much of the time. Omega then spun his designs into the Jeux d'Argent series - but they
were not his designs, but merely 'inspired' by his designs. Not for the tastes of the Omega fans here, I should think, but I've posted one of the more extraordinary designs he did actually do here, to give some sense of the unique work he did at the time.
From Primavera Gallery: "One of Andrew Grima's most important commissions came from the watch company Omega in 1969, when he was commissioned to create a very special collection of watches. The collection was cleverly titled ABOUT TIME. It consisted of 85 pieces - fifty watches and thirty-one matching pieces. For the watches, each had a crystal made from a semi-precious stone, rather than glass." And this last point is how and where the claim gets slung around the 'Bay, as Omega did then do a range of DeVilles with cut glass style sapphire crystals - but he didn't design them.
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happyhappy9877: that's not even to drone on about their redialing, etc. I did contact them about these repeated misattributions, but they affected not to understand the point and frankly, it's too subtle a point to make with eBay, I think. Or maybe not - you tell me.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOYS-OMEG...976978635?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item4613a03acb
