Posts tagged with "Wang Renmei"



08. May 2023
A 1930s Chinese All-Star advertisements of the most famous OMEGA watches celebrity endorsers. From the MOFBA collection.
Omega watches have a close to 130-year long history in China and since the Roaring Twenties have relied heavily on Chinese celebrity endorsements. For this week’s post about an artifact from our collection we are asking you for help identifying all the glamorous icons featured in this all-star ad. But first a quick background on the famous luxury watch brand. In 1848 a young watchmaker named Luis Brandt opened a workshop called “La Generale Watch Co” in the small Swiss village of La...