![]() Omega had designed it to be an elegant dress watch with water resistance to 30 m (3 bar, 98 ft), thanks to a rubber O-ring. In the early 1950s, the Seamaster hardly resembled a diving watch. Many people gravitated toward the Seamaster Professional 300M, which likely had something to do with its role as James Bond's watch in 1995's "GoldenEye." Omega returned to the classic tool watch aesthetic about a decade later. ![]() Quartz-powered models like the rectangular Seamaster Marina dominated in the 1980s. Fans have dubbed this model "Darth Vader" due to its angular black case made of tungsten. The Seamaster Chronograph ST 145.0023 comes from the same period. These professional diving watches made waves with their impressive depth ratings of 600 m (60 bar, 1,969 ft) and 1,000 m (100 bar, 3,281 ft), respectively, and the Ploprof 600 has since achieved cult status thanks to its unconventional design. The Seamaster 600 Ploprof and Seamaster 1000 followed a few years later. This watch gets its name from its shape, which resembles a bull's head. For example, in the late 1960s, the company released the Seamaster Bullhead. ![]() Over the decades, Omega has regularly added new models to the Seamaster collection. Today, all Seamasters have a depth rating of at least 300 m, except for the Aqua Terra, which has a rating of 150 m (15 bar, 492 ft). However, later tests revealed that these timepieces were actually water-resistant to 300 m (30 bar, 984 ft), as their name implies. The earliest models were only rated to 200 m (20 bar, 656 ft) – the greatest depth they could test for back in the 1950s. This timepiece boasted a rotatable diving bezel, luminous hands and indices, and improved water resistance, all features that define the collection to this day. That year, Omega took the dress watch and transformed it into a professional diving watch known as the Seamaster 300. The iconic diving watch most associated with the Seamaster name premiered in 1957. This design heritage lives on in the modern Seamaster Aqua Terra collection. The collection began as a line of robust, water-resistant diving watches based on the watches Omega supplied to the British military during World War II. Get all the details right here.The Omega Seamaster made its debut back in 1948. Throw in the beautiful printed Tudor rose logo and the 'smiley' text on the bottom of the dial, and you've managed to capture so much of what makes a vintage Tudor Oyster Prince stand out. In addition, the sharpness of the alpha hands provide the perfect contrast to the rectangular stick indices and let the dial sing in the light. The applied 12-3-6-9 indices add a beautiful dimensionality to the dial, while lending it a casual enough aesthetic to dress down with a t-shirt and jeans. While the dial isn't big when compared to its modern counterparts, it's packed with incredible details. Someone with a keen eye might notice that 34mm case on the watch is shared by the Tudor Ranger of the same reference, but with the silver dial and alpha hands, the Oyster Prince possesses a more refined look than the true tool-watch appearance of its brother. That's what immediately comes to mind when I put this 1966 Tudor Oyster Prince Ref. Omega produced this reference for only a short time, from 1962 to 1964, and this example was made in 1964 and originally delivered to Germany according to Omega.Ĭrisp and compact. If Omega never changed the way they made reference numbers this watch would have fallen into the 2998 category, which I think is pretty neat to think about. They started using a six-digit system called "Mapics." Omega developed a system where each of the numbers in the reference would correspond to a specific feature of the watch. ![]() This reference came out at a point when Omega changed the way they made reference numbers, in 1962. This brings us to the reference 1005.002 we are offering today. The biggest changes would be changing the steel bezel to painted black and the hands from 'Broad Arrow' style to 'Alpha' style hands. The second version reference of the Speedy, the 2998, changed the look dramatically. ![]() After the inception of the first Speedmaster the reference, the 2915, Omega would continue to update the model until this very day. Having the tachy on the bezel was extremely useful because oftentimes the tachy on the dial could be hard to see and if you actually needed to use the function it could be distracting. Initially the watch was made for auto enthusiasts and it was one of the first watches to feature a fixed bezel with tachymeter scale – before this, the tachymeter scale would have been directly on the dial. The Speedmaster has reached legendary status, but I wonder if the execs at Omega would have ever thought this when it came out in 1957. ![]()
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