Omega – Seamaster Planet Ocean

Up close and personal

The Omega Sea Master Professional Planet Ocean is a fine mechanical Swiss watch, beautifully designed and constructed to give years of reliability. Omega has in this range of models, a superb sports aquatic watch, great in design, aesthetically pleasing to the eye and unlike heavier and thicker diver type watches it can be worn for most occasions.

The choice of orange or black bezels enables the buyer to choose the sport look or a more austere appearance for the executive. PO models have the optional 45.5mm diameter case for the man with wrists above 7.5 inches which will no doubt please many. Otherwise the standard size would be a 42mm model with a 20mm lug-lug distance.

Movement

The co-axial movement on this range of Omegas is a relative newcomer. The history of it relates to an English horologist *Dr. George Daniels MBE, DSc, FSA born 1926 who invented it. The co-axial differs from the conventional lever escapement common to other mechanical watch movements, in a design than greatly reduces friction and is claimed to require less lubrication and maintenance.

The Omega Seamaster Professional Planet Ocean is one of the most solidly built watches that are available on the market currently. It is a heavy watch on the wrist, and reminds the wearer at all times that they are carrying on their wrists one of the most premium Omega aquatic watches ever.

Bracelet

The stainless steel bracelet has a wetsuit extension capability and a two release button mechanism that won’t open the clasp unless both buttons are depressed simultaneously. The bracelet is solidly

Both the fold over extension and the wetsuit extension fit nicely within the clasp without extending on to the bracelet links. This is unlike other bracelets that the fold over linkage extends into the bracelet links and leaves score marks on the links after a time.

Case

The case edges are bevelled and shouldered to create the illusion of slimness. The lugs are designed to flow into the case edge and are highly polished. The right underside lug has the micro engraved serial number of the watch. I needed a loupe to read the eight digit number as it is very small.

The crown

The screw in crown has pull-out sequential positions for the initial winding of the mainspring of the movement, date and time synchronization. The crown has the Omega sign which looks impressive. It has no shoulder protection.
The helium release crown is at the 10 o’clock side of the casing and unless the watch is subjected to an helium environment, this crown should be kept closed. This crown has the chemical symbol for helium on it (“He”).

Dial

The jet black dial has references to it’s water pressure capabilities and the fact that it is a co-axial movement chronometer and that it is a Seamaster Professional, but no reference to it being a PLANET OCEAN which only appears on the case back. The dial face has a mixture of luminova coated indices and Arabic numerals of 12, 9 and 6 all in a reddish/orange color on a black dial face. This makes the watch extremely easy to read, particularly in subdued light. The hands and indices have very good luminosity which become progressively visible towards total darkness and remain readable for many night hours.

The date window at 3 o’clock is not magnified, but is of adequate size and most users would have no trouble reading it from any angle.

The hour and minute hands have a unique arrowhead design which one either likes or hates. The beautifully designed second hand has a small arrowhead on it with a red tip.

Bezel

The bezel on my model is the orange color one and I personally like it. The rotation is counter clockwise only and has very positive clicks. The lumi pearl inset in the bezel sits inside an inverted black triangle, the point of which positions exactly in line with the 12 o’clock dial marker.

Case back

The marvelous looking case back of the watch has the larger Omega Sea Monster beautifully embossed in steel and the words PLANET OCEAN around the edges. It is one of the best designs that are seen on the most current watches in the market.

Availability

There are 2 main variants for replicas of the omega seamaster planet ocean replica – the Japanese Miyota movement model and the Swiss ETA movement replicas.

From our reviews, the most accurate site currently retailing the Japanese movement replica would be Ireplicastore.com which boasts the widest collection of seamaster planet ocean varieties, from the black bezel version to the chronograph version.

As for the swiss movement replica, swissreplicastore.com has had some of the best feedback from our users for their version of the seamaster swiss ETA movement planet ocean replica. You should check it out if you ever wanted to purchase one. It is available in both the 42mm and the 45mm extra large version.

Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Orange Bezel SS Bracelet