The replica Omega’s updated Seamaster Diver 300M is one of the most powerful wristwatch product offerings for 2018. Initially launched during the Jean-Claude Biver-era of Omega in 1993, the Seamaster is today a truly iconic model for Omega. At the time in the early 1900s, it was meant to reassert Omega’s relevance but also distinctive design ethos. Actually, the Seamaster 300M should not look like the Rolex Submariner – which at the time dozens and dozens of fake watches did indeed look like. Omega intends to be more than just a Rolex, and it wants to be something completely different and prominent in its approach to a late 20th-century luxury clock.
It is quite important to mention the original Seamaster 300M design because the new 2018 updated models celebrate those core values and aesthetics that made the original so popular. 2018 isn’t the same as 1993 for the watch industry, but 25 years later, I have to say one can agree that modern watch tastes haven’t actually changed that much. I would debate that the modern era of luxury watches clearly began in the 1990s.
One of the most iconic design elements of the replica Omega Seamaster 300M is the manual helium release valve located at 10 o’clock on the case. I can’t say why the fake Omega chose for a manual versus automatic helium release valve at a time when automatic valves were easy to design.
However, I don’t know but I believe that Omega has been continually producing at least some form of the Seamaster 300M for the last 25 years. Don’t forget that Omega even added a few dive watch lines to the Seamaster collection over the years including the dressier Seamaster Planet Ocean, and the vintage-style Seamaster 300.
For me, the Seamaster 300M dial with its distinctive hands and hour markers is a design that has aged well. It took years of looking at other sport watch dials to appreciate that Omega made something with the enduring power of a Submariner – but with a more contemporary and active feel to it.
The replica watches did however produce a fair number of two-tone steel and 18k Sedna (rose) or yellow gold models. Those two-tone Seamaster 300M models are truly lovely, but they include a rather steep price increase that takes a lot out of the really high value-proposition fun of the entire steel Seamaster 300M models.
To ensure the correction of all the details of the 2018 Seamaster 300M watches, let’s start by looking at the movement. Also, Omega showed us the new rule that diving watches should have glowing spots on all 12-hour markers.