10 Reasons The Omega Seamaster Will Never Be Top Dog

the Omega sea Master is an iconic addition to the dive watch story steeped in history and engineered for performance but I don't think it's the best not quite it loses by a nose by the fine hairs on the tip of the nose but it loses why we'll have to get pretty down and dirty in the fussy details to find out whatever watch you're looking for you'll find it at watchfinder docomo click on the link in the description below it really helps me out thank you the tud black Bay is nearly half the price you just can't argue with that pound for pound all the parts that matter from the Omega are present in the black Bay just for way way cheaper and if you're going to buy a not Rolex you may as well buy the not Rolex made by Rolex now I do think Tudor is running on skinnier margins in a sort of still profitable loss leader situation and one day perhaps a black Bay dive watch will line with Omega prices at least today's Omega prices but as of right now the difference is over 70% that's huge and very hard to justify the extra cost the priciest non-precious metal SE Master costs £9,500 scoot up to the top end of the SE Master scale and you'll find prices that are barely believable the most expensive sea Master before you get to the precious metal jobbies is £9,500 I'm sorry that's the same price as a Submarina LV actually slightly more expensive that's 1800 more than a dateless submarin granted that particular nonprecious metal sea Master is titanium but even then the priciest steel sea Master is £ 7,900 which is still £200 more than a dateless Submariner takes a lot of nerve to play that game the Omega SE Masters helium ES Cape valve is a problem it's the little silver peanut butter cup at 10:00 and it's so irrelevant that most people don't even know what it does of course most people would never use 99% of a dive watch's capabilities anyway but when this particular feature literally sticks out like a sore thumb you have to weigh up the necessity of it I don't know if the automatic valve scene on the SE dweller is patented and so Omega has to use this manually set version that hangs off the k instead but to put it into perspective how pointless it is it will only serve a benefit if you take its saturation diving like compression Chambers days underwater standing on the seabed kind of stuff the Omega sea Master is Big at 42 mm it's not a small watch it wears well for its size like the moon watch does but for a lot of people it's just a bit too big it's not that thin either so shrinking the diameter and and making it work wouldn't be easy but if they could there would be a whole lot more people who could actually wear one if they wanted to right now there's a whole slew of people who might be absolutely gagging to have one but look like they haven't grown into big boy watches when they try it on it's simple customer optimization really what size do people want okay let's make it that size not several millimet bigger there are a lot of details on the Omega SE Master that's not necessarily A criticism at all because I personally happen to like the little details the waves on the dial the scop bezel Edge the LI lugs they all exist to prove that Omega is better at making fancy watches but it's a dive watch so most people don't care about Fancy in fact the problem when it comes to fancy is that actually you're adding detail that becomes more divisible by preference nobody hates vanilla ice cream but but there are a lot of people who wouldn't touch RAM and raisin with a barge spoon not Everyone likes waves cut into the dial but the people who do don't mind it plain same with the lxs keep it simple there's way too many Omega SE Masters you've probably heard of the Paradox of choice but apparently Omega hasn't just within the SE Master diver 300M collection specifically there are no less than 46 different options of course you expect a couple of strap choices and some color variations but this feels like a crapshoot you can have blue with coarse waves or blue with subtle waves or blue with sunburst or blue with fume or silver with blue accents or blue with yellow gold or rose gold or a whole load of those with a chronograph as well also some of those have a date and some don't and there's really no telling why there's way to too many different types of SE Master never mind waiting through the Minefield that is the SE Master diver 300M collection you've got to even get to it in amongst all the other sea Master watches First Sea Master aquatera perhaps or sea Master Planet ocean what about the C Master 300 which is very different to the 300M what about the rail Master yes that's in with the sea Masters the plpr perhaps the boutique Edition Master chronometer or the Olympic Edition or the Bullhead chronograph the what exactly the opportunity to decide beyond all reasonable doubt that the 300M is even the right model line to go down is made all the more difficult by the torrent of other sea Masters competing for attention there's no taper on the Omega SE Master bracelet dear all that is Holy it is 2023 and the bracelet on the sea Master still looks like a tape measure they fixed it on the speed master and now they need to fix it on the C Master some people are fine with it but it's like all the other details we've discussed before the people who don't mind the straight bracelet won't mind the taper but the people who like the taper won't buy the straight bracelet why would aega do that the bezel is just a let down despite its very tasty looks the bezel on the SE master is just not a pleasing thing to use bearing in mind that a dive watch is for most people a tactile fidget spinner getting the click clunk of the bezel mechanism right is fundamental each Notch it clicks should encourage a few clicks more snapping cleanly from tooth to tooth when turning slowly and buzzing like a Chris King Hub when given a quick Twist of the wrist the C Master just isn't there it sounds Petty but that's what we're doing here it's a matter of details also the bezel is weirdly difficult to grip the perfect C doesn't exist there are plenty of components from one sea Master to the next that could be assembled to make the perfect sea Master a bit like how Tuda built the black Bay 58 it's like Tuda went through an identic kit of watch designs with a room full of people all hooked up Like A Clockwork Orange polygraphs scratching up and down when the room hits a peak gold markers good silver scored well too let's make both of those with the sea Master it's chaos there's a stunning dial in the Beijing 2022 but with weird markers and a yach master bezel the standard bezel is too white and the summer blue one looks like it could be better the caramel Loom of the titanium Bond edition could really soften the standard version there's a cool ceramic case but but it's 43.5 mm only it's all there but it's like a scavenger hunt to find it and there's no way to bring it all together the sea Master really is best friends with perfect it's just not quite there yet in some senses that's a good thing perfect could be considered boring to be the best most popular you might have to sell your soul to the gods of bland universality being second best lets you do things a bit different have a bit more flare that's why people choose it they don't want the best they want the one that speaks to the most so Omega have a decision to make really do they want the sea Master to Simply Be the Best of the rest or can it be its own thing entirely I sincerely hope it's the latter what do you think let me know down in the comments below and please do click on the watchfinder decom link in the description too as it really helps thanks and see you next time

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Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2023