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Seamaster: sink can wait

2020-08-17T12:34:01.250Z


ONE WATCH, ONE DESTINY (2/6) - Born in 1948, this ultra-resistant Omega diving model goes along with many underwater records and even appears on James Bond's wrist.


These six timepieces have changed the face of watchmaking and spanned the decades. From their creation to the present day, a return to the extraordinary trajectory of six dials that have become cult.

10,928 meters: this is the new diving record set by billionaire adventurer Victor Vescovo in 2019, in the Pacific Ocean. On his wrist: the robust Seamaster designed by Omega in less than six weeks for this crazy five-dive expedition to the depths of the five oceans. Thanks to the Limiting Factor, an eleven-ton submarine covered in titanium, the flagship brand of the Swatch Group will no longer be associated only with the performance of the Moonwatch, the watch that walked on the Moon.

Read also: Omega celebrates the conquest of space

After the conquest of space, that of the oceans ... At the end of a robotic arm deep in the abyss of the Mariana Trench, a Seamaster Ocean Ultra Deep Professional, forged in the same titanium as that of the submarine, has endured the crushing pressure of the depths. With an estimated resistance of 15,000

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