Orange is a well-liked colour for dive watches because it’s one of the crucial seen colours underwater. It provides a robust distinction towards the blue or inexperienced hues deep down, serving to divers shortly learn the time or elapsed dive length. Though colours like crimson and orange fade first at nice depths because of gentle absorption, within the leisure diving vary (right down to ~40 meters), orange stays top-of-the-line selections for a legible, high-contrast dial. It’s additionally a stylistic nod to classic dive watches and stays a signature search for particular fashions. Though Omega has used the colour on numerous Seamaster fashions, the Diver 300M has by no means featured any orange — till right now.
Iconic Omega watches, such because the Seamaster Ploprof, Planet Ocean, and Aqua Terra, have all had variations with plenty of orange or, at the very least, some orange accents. Now it’s time for the Seamaster Diver 300M to decorate up within the Dutch nationwide colour.
The Omega Seamaster Diver 300M “in orange”
The phrasing above is how Omega described the brand new Seamaster Diver 300M within the press launch. That is perhaps a bit a lot, although, as a result of, apart from the non-obligatory rubber strap, there are only a few orange accents right here and there. However let’s begin with the acquainted brushed and polished chrome steel 42mm case. It’s the identical one we all know and love from earlier 300M fashions, with the twisted lugs, crown guards at 3 o’clock, and helium escape valve at 10.
Together with the domed sapphire crystal, it’s 13.8mm thick, and the lugs span 49.7mm from tip to tip. The aluminum bezel insert has a matte black end and a white 60-minute dive scale product of blue-glowing Tremendous-LumiNova.
It completely matches the sandblasted black aluminum dial, which doesn’t characteristic any of the wave patterns we sometimes see on different Seamaster Diver 300Ms. It additionally doesn’t have a date window. This 300M is right here to let you know the time, your elapsed dive length, and nothing else. The orange varnish accents are reserved for the oblong hour markers, the Seamaster emblem at 12, and the lollipop seconds hand. The diamond-polished skeletonized hour and minute palms and spherical markers characteristic a rhodium-plated end.
The quantity of orange will increase quite a bit while you determine to order the watch with the orange curved-end rubber strap. Should you go for the brushed mesh bracelet, the orange accents are reasonably refined, however they do give the Seamaster Diver 300M a pleasant summer season vibe.
An aesthetic alternative reasonably than a useful one
It looks as if the orange accents on this Seamaster Diver 300M are merely there for aesthetic functions reasonably than useful ones. Positive, it’s simpler to catch the seconds hand on its approach across the dial and the cardinal markers. However on earlier Omega watches with orange accents, I really feel using orange was extra useful. Look, for instance, on the orange minute hand on the Ploprof and the orange 15-minute portion on the bezel insert of the Planet Ocean.
This time, it looks as if the orange accents are solely there to make the Seamaster Diver 300M look a bit of extra informal. Nonetheless, it’s a pleasant variation on the design and a lovely one, particularly for us Dutchies. However I also can think about one other variation with white hour and seconds palms and an orange minute hand that would look nice as nicely. For now, the hour and seconds palms have matching blue lume, similar to on the hour markers. The minute hand options inexperienced lume, which matches the lume pip on the bezel and makes it excellent for conserving monitor of your elapsed dive length.
A METAS-certified Grasp Chronometer
The Co-Axial Grasp Chronometer caliber 8806 powers the brand new orange-accented Omega Seamaster Diver 300M. This automated motion holds an influence reserve of 55 hours, options 35 jewels, and runs at a frequency of 25,200vph. It’s additionally licensed by METAS, which suggests the watch is correct to between 0 and +6 seconds per day, and the ability reserve and water resistance are assured. As well as, because of the silicon Si14 stability spring contained in the motion, the watch is immune to magnetic fields of as much as 15,000 gauss. Relating to the ending, the caliber incorporates a rhodium-plated rotor and bridges with arabesque Geneva stripes, and the screws, barrel, and stability wheel all have a black end. You possibly can take take a look at it via the sapphire window within the case again.
Matte black and varnished orange accents
I just like the modest matte black dial and bezel insert together with the varnished orange accents. The touches of colour pop fairly nicely, however the watch isn’t too shiny, which a number of the Seamaster Diver 300Ms with ceramic bezel inserts could be. Aside from the orange accents, the brand new 300M retains issues tidy and is there for the wearer who can admire a little bit of colour as an alternative of getting a very monochrome watch on the wrist. And in case you’re a fan of orange (otherwise you’re Dutch), then this definitely is a really interesting choice in Omega’s Seamaster Diver 300M collection.
The brand new Omega Seamaster Diver 300M with orange accents prices €6,800 on the fitted rubber strap or €7,200 on the chrome steel mesh bracelet. Each include a brushed chrome steel folding clasp.
Let me know within the feedback beneath what you consider this new Omega Seamaster Diver 300M variation.
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