New Launch: The No-Date Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Watches

This earlier summer season season, watch nerds everywhere acquired giddy for only a few hours of the Olympics after recognizing a no-date steel Omega Seamaster on the wrist of none apart from James Bond (AKA Daniel Craig). It wasn’t the first time the mannequin had used a celeb’s wrist to tease a possible launch (it seems to have merely achieved so as soon as extra at a present awards current), nonetheless no one knew the exact particulars of the watch, loads a lot much less when it is perhaps launched. Correctly, the wait is over, and Omega has merely launched two new no-date Seamaster fashions, totaling 4 SKUs. Mannequin new to the line-up consists of the no-date Omega Seamaster Diver 300M in a black dial with a steel case (Refs. 210.30.42.20.01.010 and 210.32.42.20.01.003) and a extremely intriguing risk with a steel dial with a titanium bezel and a steel case (Refs. 210.30.42.20.06.002 and 210.32.42.20.06.002), along with the first time we’ve seen a mesh bracelet on a non-limited Seamaster Diver 300M.

Daniel Craig was a changing into ambassador with whom to tease these watches. In any case, other than two $15,000 two-tone Seamasters, the one fashionable no-date decisions seem like Bond editions and a few totally different LEs. The James Bond watches are moreover the one time we’ve seen a mesh bracelet on the Seamaster. The model new no-date Omega Seamaster Diver 300Ms don’t have the equivalent dimensions as the alternative regular manufacturing fashions — nonetheless not in one of the best ways chances are you’ll anticipate. Whereas the steel circumstances nonetheless measure 42mm all through, they seem to have misplaced .2mm in dimension for a lug-to-lug of 49.7mm. Nonetheless that .2mm has been moved to the thickness, which measures 13.8mm in its place of 13.6mm. All in all, these are unlikely to create a meaningfully fully totally different placed on on the wrist.

The case is the normal Seamaster design that’s been in place for years and years. Bombé lugs, scalloped bezel, organically protruding crown guards with a screw-down crown, and a conical helium escape valve crown at 10 o’clock — it’s all there, along with a domed sapphire crystal and 300m of water resistance. Two points are novel for these releases. The first is that every 60-minute unidirectional bezels eschew the fashionable use of ceramic inserts; the black dial will get an anodized aluminum insert, and the steel dial will get a laser-ablated titanium bezel like we observed on the Beijing Olympics model. The titanium bezel’s lume is restricted to the triangle pip, nonetheless the white markings on the black aluminum insert are filled with Large-LumiNova.

The second novelty is the strap decisions: the model new fashions come on the usual rubber (grey for the steel dial, black for the black), however moreover present the selection of Omega’s distinctive stainless-steel mesh bracelet. We’ve now seen this bracelet executed in titanium, steel, and Canopus (white) gold (together with the rose gold that Omega teased not too way back on Craig’s wrist). These are to date the one regular manufacturing fashions that come outfitted with the mesh bracelet (though you should purchase the steel individually for $800 USD). In my experience, that is among the many biggest mesh bracelets spherical, its solely draw again being the a lot much less engaging look of the straight ends on the lugs.

What’s totally new for these fashions is the steel dial. Whereas the black aluminum dial does have a finer wave pattern that throws once more to the early Bond days (Versus the broader waves on fashionable fashions), it’s the brushed steel dials that I’m constructive is perhaps getting all the attention. Omega has PVD-coated the steel dials to get the brushing affect. The overall have an effect on is one in every of a muted nonetheless textured look that is complemented and enhanced by the usual rhodium-plated utilized markers and skeleton sword handset, all of which have Large-LumiNova fill that you simply simply almost certainly know by now might be among the many many biggest in the marketplace. On the black, it’s maybe notable that there is no such thing as a such factor as a purple accenting on any of the dial, making a loads stronger black-and-white look than the alternative at current obtainable black dials in steel circumstances.

Rolling the watches over, the caseback encompasses a sapphire crystal for viewing the Omega 8806 movement, which is the no-date execution of the 8800. It’s a lovely execution for a not totally fancy movement, with keyed-up ending befitting a present caseback. The movement choices Omega’s co-axial escapement, 55 hours of power at 25,200 vph, and a silicon hairspring, which helps in achieving 15,000 gausses of magnetic resistance. The truth is, it’s moreover Grasp Chronometer licensed, providing a median day-after-day accuracy of -0/+5 seconds.

This could be a watch I can take into consideration many have been longing for. The larger market seems married to watches with dates, nonetheless I do know a great deal of people who can’t stand them and further who’re drawn to the magnificence and steadiness of a no-date dial. The scarcity of a recent, regular manufacturing no-date Seamaster was comparatively apparent considering there’s been a no-date risk of the Submariner…ceaselessly. Throughout the case of Omega, the mannequin hasn’t deigned to distinguish the no-date and date fashions of their official model names, so I take into consideration we’ll merely title these the “No-Date Seamasters.” Whereas seemingly not however obtainable for purchase on-line, the fashions are nearly truly free for viewing at your native Omega boutique. The model new no-date Omega Seamaster Diver 300M fashions are priced at $5,900 USD on rubber (Refs. 210.32.42.20.01.003 and 210.32.42.20.06.002) and $6,500 USD on a mesh bracelet. For additional data, please go to the Omega website online.