A new watch from Omega that touts their partnership with the Olympics is not surprising. Along with the Bond franchise, the Olympics is one of the most important and long standing of Omega?s corporate partnerships, and, for lack of a better term, they milk it for all it?s worth (we?re only two months removed from the last Omega x Olympics release). What is somewhat surprising is when Omega unveils an Olympics watch that?s subtle, attractive, and not immediately identifiable as a partnership piece. That?s what we seem to have here in the Seamaster Diver 300M Tokyo 2020 Edition, which was unveiled this week. This is a simple and straightforward Seamaster that, in spite of decorative caseback to mark the strange occasion of the 2020 Olympics (which in April of ?21 still have yet to take place), could easily sit next to any Seamaster that?s a permanent part of the Omega catalog. 
The new Seamaster was officially launched on Tuesday to mark the beginning of the 100 day countdown to the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games. This, of course, is an Olympic event like no other, as it was delayed a year due to the ongoing pandemic. But with vaccines getting into arms and the world beginning to return to something approaching ?normal,? there?s an expectation that the 2020 Olympics will finally take place, albeit under the strictest safety precautions imaginable. 

The watch itself is somewhat conservative for an Omega special edition. What they?ve done is simply take a w...