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As an individual with the zeal for diving sports and a fanatic of the magnificent flag colors, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Master Chronometer completes me. It’s so manly that no man out there should hesitate to it pick up anytime, any day.

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Its exquisite red, blue and white decorations on its case, those luminous hands and dial markers, clever markings on the rubber band makes this “Deep Black” men watch a unique and indispensable timepiece.

Even though the black ceramic case has a diameter of 45.5 mm, I found it extremely comfortable on my wrist the first day I wore it. The watch’s irresistible ceramic bezel crafted with OMEGA LiquidMetal diving scale provides a beautiful glimpse of the New Zealand flag colors. It happened so quickly and within first ten minutes of diving, my patriotism was a notch higher. Underwater, it was just awesome.

Furthermore, an Emirates Team New Zealand logo in red rubber dominates its solid case back. Additional Challenger 35th America’s Cup writing engraved on it makes this watch ooze a global feel the moment you strap it.

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Other features include a sapphire crystal, classy18K gold indexes on the dial and a screw-in crown. By the way, you can dive up-to 600M before the watch gives in. Keep in mind that no matter the conditions during these kinds of expeditions, you won’t struggle to check the time because Omega Seamaster Planet’s MT ring has a flattering day or night display. Further steel is brought in by the 60 hours power reserve complemented by an automatic, caliber OMEGA 8906 movement just in case of an emergency.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean chronometer is META- certified thereby importing with it some array of functions namely: hours, minutes, seconds, GMT, date and regatta timing, helium escape valve which is valuable during diving excursions. I won’t forget the incomparable diving experience while donning this time piece. 200M under, you will notice how its unidirectional rotating bezel feels extremely smooth, making operations a breeze, this was definitely another big plus.

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The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Master Chronometer ETNZ Deep Black History

Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean has its origin back in the 1990’s. The name, design and material used began during the evolution of ceramic watch making initiated by the Dark side of the moon.

It also pays tribute to New Zealand Emirates team and their desire to emerge victorious in the 35th America Cup. Though miles apart and an upgrade version of the vintage Seamaster 300M Ti.

The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Master Chronometer ETNZ Deep Black price: $11,200

OMEGA watches for men always evolve with time. At just $11,200 usd, the price is not over the top and compared to other brands or even Omega series with similar functionalities, it offers value for your money!

Yesterday, Parmigiani Fleurier was proud to receive the prestigious Innovation Prize from the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Genève for its creation of the first Hijri perpetual calendar wristwatch. The prize is awarded by the Jury on a discretionary basis to reward the best competing watch offering an innovative and unique vision of time measurement, and for opening up new pathways for the art of watchmaking.

Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Hijri Perpetual Calendar

In this video, Sean from Exquisite Timepieces showcases the Omega Seamaster 300m Professional in Ceramic and the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe in Ceramic to show how the two are comparable yet completely different. Which do you prefer?

1. Omega Seamaster 300m Professional in Ceramic
2. Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe in Ceramic

In this video: Angelus U21 Tourbillon Carbon Gold

In the year 2000 Chronoswiss unveiled the world’s first serially produced regulator tourbillon. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this achievement, Maik Panziera has designed the Open Gear Tourbillon – a modern mechanical timekeeper with a unique regulator set-up, electric blue case and a hypnotising handmade guilloché.

Traditionally placed at 6 o’clock, the tourbillon is a perfect ingredient to incorporate in the Chronoswiss design lexicon. “Nobody else makes a tourbillon like ours, with a regulator set-up, open gears and handmade guilloché,” says Maik Panziera, Head of Design at Chronoswiss, about the vertical line-up of the Open Gear Tourbillon. “This half-skeletonised flying tourbillon is completely designed in-house, and it is exclusive to Chronoswiss watches,” he continues. The tourbillon Chronoswiss manufactured 20 years ago – Régulateur à Tourbillon – also had a guilloché dial. But since then the company has taken one small step for man but one giant leap for an independent watchmaker: now Chronoswiss unveils the the C.303 – its own half-skeletonised tourbillon movement, and the guilloché is added by hand in its atelier in Lucerne.

With the Open Gear Tourbillon the ‘blue hour’ gets a whole new meaning. Using 10 different shades of the colour historically symbolising loyalty, strength, wisdom and trust, the calm display of the watch is contrasted especially by the energetic, almost aggressively electric blue CVD coating on the 17-part, stainless steel case. “We use a light blue for the dial, whereas the bridges have a dark blue coating,” says Panziera.

The Trigono-shaped hands are blue lacquered, with Super-LumiNova inlays and tips.

For the hour and five-minute indexes, generous amounts of blue-hued lume are combined with zirconium oxide into solid bricks and pillars that shine through the night.

The tourbillon may have roots stretching back to the end of the 18th century, but the Open Gear Tourbillon has everything you should expect from a modern mechanical timepiece. The watch dial is an elaborate 42-part construction on two levels: the bottom level is hand-guilloched, whereas the upper level features skeletonised train wheel bridges and a funnel-like construction for the hour display. Other design details include all particular signifiers of a Chronoswiss watch: knurled bezel, onion crown and the hornback crocodile strap held in place with the patented Autobloc system.

There is also a not-to-be-seen special engraving on the reverse side of the dial – for a unique melding of modern mechanical watchmaking and heritage, since the idea of a secret signature was in vogue around two centuries ago when the tourbillon was invented.

To this day the tourbillon is one of the most advanced feats of horology. To place the whole escapement in a miniature cage that makes a full revolution every 60 seconds counteracts the Herculean force of gravity and its detrimental effect on precision. To construct, assemble and fine-tune a tourbillon is, understandably, extremely timeconsuming. “It was twenty years ago – and even more so today, since we now have our own movement and execute the guilloché by hand in our atelier in Lucerne,”said Maik Panziera.

The Chronoswiss Open Gear Tourbillon is limited to 15 pieces.

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