Omega wishes no introduction! This emblem won't always churn out the maximum high-priced watches constantly however it simply creates timepieces that magnetize connoisseurs all around the world. Lately, this Swiss emblem has improved its Museum Collection of replica antique timepieces with the addition of the Marine 1932 watch: the primary in a lineage of Seamaster divers’ watches and an eloquent proponent of Art Deco aesthetics. This Limited Series of a hundred thirty-five recreations of the Marine 1932 commemorates the 1937 trials that formally licensed the watch’s water resistance to a hundred thirty-five meters. In maintaining the philosophy that stimulated the Museum Collection, the watch joins the twenty-first century with the incorporation of Omega Caliber in 2007. The double case has been crafted in contrasting 18kt rose and white gold and enlarged to expose the smooth traces that seize the aesthetics and layout temper of the 1930s.

The philosophy that stimulated OMEGA to create the Museum Collection changed into taking a timepiece from the beyond and fusing it with the maximum updated technological breakthroughs in watchmaking. The Limited quantity Series is engraved at the rose gold outside case lower back which has a vertically satin-brushed finish.

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Manufacturer: Omega Marine 1932 Vintage, Gold 14K/585, ultra very rare/ Ref.: ot 680 / ck 679

Remarks: Launched in 1932, the "Marine" is indisputably the world's first diving watch! You can read detailed info about this watch in the book "A Journey through Time".

Model: Marine Vintage

Price: £8,689

Released in December, the Radiomir 1936 is a limited-version watch that can pay tribute to Panerai's records and to its long-status dating to the Regia Marina, Italy's royal military. It changed into the primary wristwatch advanced via way of means of Panerai and the maximum influential timepiece the organization has ever manufactured.

But the tale does not begin in 1936. It begins offevolved in 1860 when Giovanni Panerai set up the organization in Florence. Before long, his luxurious timepieces have been the speak of Italy. By the 1890s, Panerai's grandson, Guido, had the organization geared up to roll into the 20th century, agreeing to fabricate precision devices for the Regia Marina. Over the subsequent 50 years, Panerai could make devices in a massive variety from underwater compasses and intensity gauges to mechanical calculators for launching torpedoes.

In 1936, the Italian military had a unique request: a luminous underwater watch, each long-lasting and reliable, for its divers. Panerai had already spearheaded the generation of luminous dials and sighting devices. Uniting that little bit of chemistry and the organization's watchmaking expertise, the Radiomir 1936 changed into created.

Seventy years later, the Radiomir 1936 is trustworthy to the original. It functions as a 47-millimeter case that screams energetic guy and a black face with luminous Arabic and Roman numerals and luminous hour and minute fingers called the California dial. The watch is manually wound, however, it has an electricity reserve of fifty-six hours and is water immune to 30 meters.

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Manufacturer: Panerai
Remarks: Hand-wound mechanical, Panerai OP X caliber, 16½ lignes, 17 jewels, Glucydur® balance, 21,600 alternations/hour. Incabloc® anti-shock device. Swan's neck regulator.
Model: PAM00249 - RADIOMIR 1936 - 47MM
Price: £8,500

Since 1993, the Seamaster Professional Diver 300M has loved a mythical following. Today’s contemporary-day series has embraced that well-known ocean background and is up to date with OMEGA’s high-quality innovation and design. This forty-two mm version is made from stainless steel and consists of a black ceramic bezel with a white tooth diving scale. The dial is likewise polished black ceramic and functions with laser-engraved waves and a date window at 6 o’clock.

The skeleton fingers and raised indexes are rhodium-plated and are packed with white Super-LumiNova, even as the helium getaway valve has been given a conical design. The watch is supplied on a stainless-steel bracelet and is pushed through the OMEGA Master Chronometer Calibre 8800, which may be visible thru the sapphire crystal at the wave-edged case back.

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Manufacturer: Omega

Remarks: Self-winding movement with Co-Axial escapement. Certified Master Chronometer, approved by METAS, resistant to magnetic fields reaching 15,000 gausses. Free sprung balance with silicon balance spring, automatic winding in both directions. Rhodium-plated finish with Geneva waves in arabesque.

Model: Calibre Omega 8800, Brand Collections: Seamaster

Price: £4,840

This is the primary ‘modern’ dive watch. By modern, a uni-directional rotating bezel with widespread water resistance. This honor is regularly mistakenly attributed to the Submariner. This genuine version is from the primary 12 months that the Fifty Fathoms become to be had to the public, 1953. Only prototypes and navy portions existed preceding that. Captain Robert Maloubier and Lieutenant Claude Riffaud of the French Combat Diving School required a look ahead to their maximum elite divers to degree elapsed time at intensity. The marketplace didn’t appear very extensive to the maximum of the Swiss watchmaking houses. Only Jean-Jacques Fiechter of Blancpain, a diver himself, noticed the sensible business attraction of a waterproof watch. Fiechter controlled the layout of a dive watch with Fifty Fathoms, or ~90m, of intensity rating. As you will be aware, the method is stuck.

The watch they created collectively become a huge 41mm to deal with its rotating bezel, a first. The luminous dial needed to be seen with an easily-prominent 12 marker. Water resistance becomes performed thru a screw-down case again and reliability of timing becomes ensured thru an automated caliber. The crown could now no longer be adjusted or wound to hold time. This becomes crucial, due to the fact Blancpain couldn't consist of a screw-down crown. The generation existed, however, Rolex held its patent.

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Manufacturer: Blancpain
Remarks: The original glossy dial is in immaculate and untouched condition. When viewed under UV light the radium within the bezel and dial still retain a glow.
Model: 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (Ref. 2462) Aqualung 1000FT
Price: £15,227

Launched in 1953, the Submariner became the primary divers’ wristwatch water-resistant to an intensity of a hundred meters (330 feet). This became the second outstanding leap forward withinside the technical mastery of waterproofness, following the discovery of the Oyster, the world’s first water-resistant wristwatch, in 1926. In watchmaking, the Submariner represented an ancient turning point; it set the same old for divers’ watches. Today, the Submariner is water-resistant to intensity of three hundred meters (1,000 feet).

The Submariner's unidirectional rotatable bezel is prime to the capability of the watch. Its engraved 60-minute commencement lets in a diver to screen diving time and decompression stops as it should be and consequently safely. Manufactured through Rolex from hard, corrosion-resistant ceramic, the Cerachrom bezel insert is absolutely scratchproof and its coloration is unaffected by ultraviolet rays, seawater, or water this is chlorinated.

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Manufacturer: Rolex
Remarks: This Rolex has undergone a thorough inspection of water resistance, accuracy, functionality and condition to determine the level of reconditioning required to meet Rolex's strict standards.
Model: Rolex Submariner 16610
Price: £10,500