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: I was on the road in my car out of state on a
: US interstate highway and passed a large
: truck pulling a shipping container.

: What caught my eye was the logo and the name on
: the container: Chronos

: The logo was a hippocampus.

: Anyone else seen one?

: I haven't found anything by Googling it, except
: a joint venture of Bekins (a home moving
: company in the US) and a West Coast (San
: Francisco) company, called Chronos, which is
: supposedly doing home moving in containers.
: Could be it, but there are no photos.

: Just thought it was sort of cool . . .

: Hippocampus is (today) the Greek word for
: seahorse. What does that have to do with
: Omega watches? I turned to Wikipedia.

: In Greek art, Poseidon rides a chariot that was
: pulled by a hippocampus or by horses that
: could ride on the sea. Poseidon was the god
: of the sea and of horses.

: The hippocamp or hippocampus (plural:
: hippocampi)(Greek: ἵððïêáìðïò, from
: ἵððïò, "horse" and êÜìðïò ,
: "monster"[1]), often called a
: sea-horse[2] in English, is a mythological
: creature shared by Phoenician[3] and Greek
: mythology, though the name by which we
: recognize it is purely Greek; it became part
: of Etruscan mythology. It has typically been
: depicted as a horse in its forepart with a
: coiling, scaly, fishlike hindquarter.

:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_%28mythology%29

: It seems to me, Poseidon is the
: "Seamaster", thus Omega chose his
: mode of transportion as a symbol for the
: water resistant watch they introduced in
: 1948. I suppose, since a wristwatch is
: portable, the further connnection to
: Poseidon's transportation is not accidental.

: Apollo, not Poseidon or the Roman Nepture, was
: responsible for driving the Sun across the
: sky. Other gods were concerned with
: timekeeping.

: So back to the original question: since there
: is no connection that I can discern between
: a hippocampus and timekeeping
: ("Chronos" freight container), are
: the owners of this company Omega fans?
: Otherwise, where did the logo come from?

: Sam

Sam, nicely researched and informatively written. Refreshing in this day and age. Thanks for that very interesting comment.
Craig