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 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 people of 19 nationalities Over 1’000 volunteers Material 420 tons of equipment 81 public scoreboards 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

EQUESTRIAN

CYCLING TRACK

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

SWIMMING

Chronograph watch

qualified watchmaker38 chronographs

Since then … 1948 Racend Timer (Magic Eye)

…OMEGA 1952Time recorder printer

…has ever been 1956Swim-O-matic

… the most innovative 1964Omegascope

… partner 1968Touchpads

…of the athletes 1976Matrix Video Board

… and the Olympic Movement 1984False Start starting blocks

1992Scan-O-vision