Omega Seamaster 300

With the Omega Seamaster 300, Reference CK2913, Omega dipped its toe into the deep sea of purpose-built dive watches. It soon became a classic, a worthy alternative to its rivals, the Rolex Submariner and the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. In its early years, the design of the watch would undergo subtle metamorphoses, mainly in the crown and in the bezel, until the mid-1960s saw the release of the second generation of Seamaster 300. This was the Reference 165.024, which we offer here. In the Reference 165.024, Omega made other changes that truly brought home the fact that this was an entirely new watch. The dial took on a new look, with thicker hour markers than the thin, elongated triangles that typified the CK2913. The hands were changed as well: because the broad arrow hands of the previous versions proved hard to read underwater, Omega switched to sword or plongeur hands. But the most salient feature of this new reference of Seamaster was the case. At 42mm, it was larger than the CK2913