SIGNED OMEGA, SEAMASTER MODEL, REF.166010-63, CIRCA 1965

Made as a special order for governments or prominent royals to mark important events or milestones, these 'Arab dial' timepieces were never available for public consumption in retail stores. It was common practice among Gulf royals to gift watches with their signature or the official coat-of-arms on the dial. Eventually these watches found their way into the secondary or vintage market after those that received these watches sold them on.

The present timepiece belongs to an exceedingly small series of Omega Seamaster commissioned with the portrait of Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, the former Emir of Bahrain.