First Look: Omega Explores New Depths with Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional
The quest for the world’s most waterproof timepiece has been going on at, at this point, for the better part of a century ? and in a sense you could say it’s been a decades-long battle of record-setting between a handful of bold and technically ambitious watch manufacturers. If we want to stick with that analogy, the latest salvo was fired earlier this year by Omega, which ? somewhat quietly, until its big reveal this afternoon at London’s British Museum ? built a special model of the Seamaster Planet Ocean that accompanied adventurer and explorer Victor Vescovo in his record-breaking descent into the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in all of Earth’s oceans, and thus established a new standard for wristwatch water-resistance.
Vescovo, as part of his “Five Deeps” series of expeditions to the deepest points in all of Earth’s five oceans, piloted the Limiting Factor, a specially built submersible whose hull is made of grade 5 titanium, into the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Marian Trench. (You may recall that Omega’s competitor, Rolex, famously reached a then-record depth of 35,787 feet in the Challenger Deep back in 2012, in an expedition headed by filmmaker James Cameron. Vescovo’s expedition discovered a slightly deeper point, reaching 10,928 meters, or 35,853 feet.)
The 55-mm case of the Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra-Deep Professional ? only three were made, and none for commercial sale ? was machined from...
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