Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial Watch Review

Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial Watch Review

Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial Watch Review

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There is no secrete that we're in absolute infatuation there with vintage Omega, particularly, the Omega Seamaster. It's a number of watches which has altered dramatically with time - from the initial release in 1948 as an accumulation of small dress watches, to the transition to some dive watch in 1957, to the massive diversification within the 1970s because of the Quarta movement Crisis, to the contemporary version being James Bond’s current watch of preference. It's a piece which has truly experienced the good and the bad of the consumer market, and that's what makes last year’s discharge of the Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial, and also the design choices Omega created using it, much more special.

Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial Watch Review

When I pointed out above, Omega started producing Seamasters as watches for diving within the watershed year of 1957 - exactly the same year that both first Speedmaster and also the now-stopped Railmaster were released. These were created as luxury pieces to compete (and then compete) using the Rolex Submariner, with the aim of becoming a tight schedule-to dive watch - even within the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms and Zodiac Seawolf - for serious divers and boardroom executives alike. From the original release forward, the Seamaster watches for diving have observed massive alterations in design, recognition, and marketing, yet it's that classic reference from 1957 where today’s Omega Seamaster 300 relies.

Today’s watch (Ref. 233.30.41.21.01.001, pictured above and below) is really a 41-mm animal. With situation options in steel, platinum, yellow and Sedna gold, or titanium, with whether matching metal or leather bracelet, there's a mixture for almost anyone’s taste and budget.

Particularly concentrating on the steel-on-steel variation

Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial Watch Review

The piece includes a sand-blasted black dial with faux patina, Super-LumiNova hour markers, Arabic quarter hour numerals, along with a white-colored Omega corporate emblem at 12 o’clock. Both your hands would be the vintage-inspired broad arrow hour, along with a matching vintage-Omega-styled minute hands the bezel is really a polished ceramic having a Liquidmetal diving scale - upgrading in the brittle 1950s-era bezel formerly used. Within the situation, and visual via a obvious azure caseback, resides the Omega Caliber 8400, a computerized movement that utilizes the brand’s Co-Axial escapement, is resistant against magnetic fields more than 15,000 gauss, and it has an electrical reserve of 60 hrs. Another key features to note would be the large crown minus crown pads, vintage-style domed very, and proven water proofing of 30 bar, or 300 meters (it had been only shown to 200 meters in 1957).

Typically, today’s Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial is really a faithful re-development of the initial 1957 watch. In the colors, the dial and hands designs, and situation, the timepiece in general is really a obvious homage towards the past and also the Seamaster’s diving lineage. Some aethsetic variations to notice, as both modern enhancements as well as for contemporary appeal, range from the wider bezel and situation (41 mm rather of 39 mm), polished center links around the metal bracelet, a rather stubbier screw-lower crown, arrow-esque seconds hands, and - most particularly - a obvious caseback. As I personally might have preferred the thinner bezel and also the original seconds hands, in the centre of the watch is its use like a tool, and these two modern features improve its function for legibility while diving. Overall, I've found mtss is a very handsome piece, and a fantastic job by Omega of riding today’s trend of nostalgia-loving watch aficionados.

Finally, I wish to touch upon the assured increase in prominence of the watch because of its connection to 007

While there's a couple of variations between your reference we formerly covered and also the special edition “Spectre” variation (Ref. 233.32.41.21.01.001, pictured above), namely the -11 marked, bi-directional rotating bezel and also the lollipop seconds hands, the Seamaster 300 is experiencing a brand new era of “watch love” because of its put on the wrist from the motion picture superspy performed by Difficulties. What all of this means would be that the watch presently has tested relevance: consumers begin to see the similar timepiece on Bond’s wrist, are attracted into its intricacies, and finally, when they're not able to get the greater costly or potentially unavailable spy-watch, will accept the equally awesome, vintage-inspired, flagship Seamaster 300. Kudos to Omega on a wrist watch and advertising campaign perfectly done.