The small Ollech & Wajs newspaper advertisement described a chronograph — Equal To Any Challenge, and true to its word, the watch stood up well to all of the unknown rigours that awaited...

For over sixty years, Ollech & Wajs did not sign a single watch dial with the words ‘Ollech & Wajs’, preferring an equivocal two letter acronym. But why did Joseph & Albert choose not to put their full names on their watches? 

Department Triple Zero is a special projects division, within OW, dedicated to development of specialist and custom watches.  Learn how Dept. 000 came to be over half a century ago.

Ollech & Wajs has long been the choice of professional and sports divers. Siri Østvold fits into both categories.

Ollech & Wajs have teamed up with graphic artist Bjoern Altmann to immortalise its historic references The collaboration will enable people to see OW’s original watches in their prototypical state for the first time since production ceased over 50 years ago

From 55 Stockerstrasse, on the northern tip of Lake Zurich, to customers around the globe

OW – official timing partner to the 1966 Italian dive expedition to the Arctic.

The space-age watches worn by the men on the ground.

The Caribbean 1000 and the race to the bottom of the ocean.

Freediver, scuba world record holder, dental surgeon, and evaluator of Ollech & Wajs watches.

O&W appears on the wrists of iconic crime-fighting duo Bodie and Doyle.

OW becomes the most widely used non-issued watch by US troops in Vietnam.

OW partner French explorer, Dylan Auguste.

The NASA recruit who never believed space was the final frontier.

Cream’s legendary bassist and his OW Precision Chronographe Suisse.

OW on test with the elite divers of Global Marine.

What is life like a kilometre under the sea?