Released in time-and-date, GMT, and chronograph variants, the Omega Seamaster Professional Diver 300M marked a new start for the brand and its dive watches. While brand business saturated personnel proficient in production models, 600 and 1000 like the Seamaster PloProf watches from the 1970s, Seamaster diver 300 was the first to observe the company’s helium safety valve function, appearing as an extra crown in the 10 o ‘clock position.
The Omega Seamster Diver 300M also borrowed the same ‘Plongeur’ style handset from those previous workhorses, even though this time in a skeletonized version. It was clearly designed to live up to its ‘Professional’ tag and had plenty of pluses in its favor. Yet, for the first two years of its run, the Omega Seamster Diver 300M remained a modest seller among the different kinds of Omega replica watches with only around 4,500 pieces leaving the stores. However, that all changed in 1995.
The James Bond franchise recruited a new face of 007 that year, by the name of Pierce Brosnan. Offering a different take on the feature after all the brooding Timothy Dalton era, it was only right the world’s most popular spy should refresh his look. Before the new Bond’s debut in Goldeneye, the movie’s production designer, Lindy Hemming decided Omega’s latest creation was the perfect match for 007, furnishing him with the quartz-powered ref. 2541.80.
With a highly distinctive blue bezel and dial, as well as its now-trademark wave pattern engraved in the dial’s surface, James Bond’s Omega Seamaster Diver 300M transformed the watch’s image overnight. The relationship between Omega and the James Bond film franchise has been a long and extremely fruitful one, with the secret agent wearing nothing but Omega watches right up to the present day, including several generations of the Seamaster Diver 300M.
In 1998, the Omega Seamster Diver 300M got its first Co-Axial movement, the Cal. 2500. In fact, the mechanism was an ETA 2892 in fact, modified to feature the brand’s Co-Axial escapement – the George Daniels invention that has been described as the most meaningful step forward in mechanical watchmaking of the 20th century, and to which replica omega has held the sole rights to its use since 1993. While other models in the brand’s collection were already being full of Co-Axial movements by this time, the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M lagged behind in an effort to keep the watch at its entry-level price.
The latest Omega 300 meter Submersible was launched in 2018 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the omega watch. Omega watches for omega to return to the spotlight has made a great contribution. Now in its fourth generation, the new version is undoubtedly a makeover, but it retains the key elements that made it so popular in the first place.