The market price of diving watches is tens of thousands of yuan, Omega’s diving watch era

With the success of the previous two Seamaster watches and the demand from more and more professional divers, Omega Gradually, his Seamaster series began to transform into the development route of professional diving watches. In 1957, the Seamaster 300-meter diving watch was launched. This watch is equipped with Omega 28 SC-501 movement, uses a double sealed crown, the thickness of the watch mirror is also increased to three times that of ordinary, and Arabic numerals 3, 6, 9

and 12

The hour markers, matte black oxidized dial, arrow hands and bezel scales are all treated with radium metal coating. Before diving, just align the bezel scale mark with the minute hand at that time. The bezel scale pointed by the minute hand during diving is the diving time.

In 1960, a new generation of Seamaster 300-meter diving watches came out. The watch continues the design of the time scale of the previous Seamaster 300 meter watch. The difference is that this time other fluorescent signs are used, and the hands have also been redesigned, that is, diamond-shaped The hour hand and pointed baton minute hand are also upgraded from Omega 28 SC-501 to Omega 552. Two years later, in 1962, Haima was upgraded again. The hands are still diamond-shaped hour hands and pointed baton minute hands, and the rectangular scales are appropriately weighted. The biggest difference is that the designer changed the original Arabic numeral time scale at 12 o'clock to a large inverted triangle. glow-in-the-dark sign.

In 1966, in order to meet some military needs, Omega applied the spiral crown design to the Seamaster series watches. Also in 1966, Omega launched the Seamaster 120-meter watch with an orange diving bezel. This is also the first time that Omega has added a calendar display function to a diving watch. This Seamaster 120

m diving watch is available in both a non-date display version and a manual winding version. The previous Haima 300-meter watch also added a date display version after the launch of the Haima 120-meter calendar display watch. Those models designed for military use, such as the version used by the British Royal Navy, are characterized by a logo containing the word T in a circle printed on the dial, indicating that the watch uses tritium as a luminous material.

Professional advancement of diving watches

In 1968, Omega began its cooperation with the famous French diving company Comex (Compagnie Maritime

d'Expertise). The Seamaster 300-meter diving watch also set a world record for simulated diving to 365 meters in a Comex diving operation. In the next year, Omega did not stop developing this series and added two new diving watch models to the Seamaster series. One is the Seamaster 60 meter watch with a waterproof depth of 60 meters. , the other is the Seamaster 200-meter diving watch with a water resistance of 200 meters.

With many previous experience in manufacturing diving watches and many wearing experiments by professional diving companies, Omega continued to launch the Seamaster Professional 600-meter diving watch in 1970.

. This Seamaster watch, called "PloProf" (the abbreviation of French "plongeurs

professionnels", which means professional diving), uses a one-piece case made of a whole piece of metal. The red on the right side The safety button is used to lock the rotatable bezel, and the crown of the watch is located on the left side of the case. This case has also become the most eye-catching part of the watch. Let’s talk a little more about this watch. Omega’s Seamaster Professional 600

meter diving watch has also begun to face the helium emission problem of professional diving. Different from the helium escape valve of today's diving watches, the key to the helium escape of the Haima Professional 600m diving watch at that time was the sealing of the case. Omega's watchmaking team sealed the PloProf case to such an extent that even helium could not enter, and used a mass spectrometer to detect whether helium had entered the case.

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The diving depth of a meter diving watch is not as deep as that that professional diving watches can achieve today, so this "helium escape device" was not satisfactory at the time. In addition to the special case just mentioned, the design of the Seamaster Professional 600-meter diving watch is also very different from the previous Seamaster series watches. At the same time, the watch is equipped with a 1002 automatic winding movement. And with date display function.

In 1971, Omega launched the Seamaster Professional 1000-meter Diving Watch, which also adopted the design of an integrated case and left crown. This time, the thickness of the watch mirror alone was 5

< p>mm, which also ensures the watch’s 1,000-meter waterproof function, once again breaking Omega’s deep diving record. In 2009, Omega's watchmakers re-engraved it and named it PloProf

1200-meter diving watch. This is undoubtedly an upgrade to all previous Omega professional diving watches. The reason why it is an upgraded version is not only in terms of the diving depth of 1,200 meters. The new PloProf

The 1,200-meter diving watch is equipped with the Omega 8500 coaxial movement. For this reason, this upgrade This version of professional diving watch combines not only the classic design of the past, but also modern high-tech. In 2010, the Seamaster PloProf 1200-meter diving watch was launched in white.

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