OMEGA Seamaster 300M Co-Axial GMT 41mm
Launched in 2004, this OMEGA Seamaster 300M Professional GMT model (reference 2535.80.00) features a 41mm stainless steel case, blue dial, and an automatic Co-Axial movement.
Officially it is the Seamaster Professional 300m Chronometer, but it is universally known as the “Bond” watch thanks to its appearance Bond movies since GoldenEye in 1995. Like the legendary Speedmaster Professional, its overall design is sacrosanct, thus allowing only the most subtle of modifications on its distinctive dial.
The OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial GMT watch respects this tenet and at the same time provides a genuinely useful additional time-zone function.
The Seamaster Professional Chronometer has appeared in the Bond movies GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002), each time with at least one life-saving feature to get the secret agent out of a sticky situation.
Seamaster benefits from enormous worldwide popularity thanks to the Bond franchise, which allowed Omega to show it in a highly legitimate setting, since it looks just as good with a tailored tuxedo as it does when worn around a wetsuit in the ocean’s depths.
It has a tough 41mm stainless-steel case with a screw-in case back and a screw-in protected crown that ensure water resistance to 300 metres. It offers several useful features for professional divers: a helium escape valve, which can be opened during resurfacing in a diving bell; a special clasp on the bracelet with a fold-out extension that allows the watch to be worn with a wetsuit and a notched bezel with minute scale that rotates anti-clockwise, allowing elapsed (dive) times to be recorded accurately and safely.
The James Bond GMT watch has the Seamaster Professional’s trademark blue dial with wave imprint, applied hour markers filled with luminous SuperLuminova dots and skeleton hands coated with SuperLuminova.
The red GMT hand makes one rotation every twenty-four hours and can be used to read off a second time zone on the 24-hour scale beneath the hour markers.
This timepiece houses the Omega calibre 2628 Co-Axial movement. A self-winding chronometer with a power reserve of 44 hours, this calibre is visible through the transparent sapphire crystal case back.
Since their launch in 1999, Omega’s Co-Axial movements have proved worthy alternatives to the traditional Swiss lever escapement, offering reduced friction and, therefore, greater long-term accuracy.
The Co-Axial movements also use the Omega free sprung-balance without index, which avoids the disturbing effects of contact between the balance-spring and the index pins and therefore ensures stability of the watch’s going rate over long periods of use. This high-precision movement, with official Swiss chronometer certification (COSC), has a meticulous finish with circular-graining, Geneva wave decor, polished bevelled bridges, rhodium-plated surfaces and gilt engravings.
Technical details
Model: OMEGA Seamaster 300M Co-Axial GMT 41mm, Reference 2535.80.00
Movement
Omega Calibre 2628
Self-winding chronometer, Co-Axial escapement movement with rhodium-plated finish
Power reserve: 48 hours
Functions
GMT and worldtimer, date
Case
Stainless steel case
Diameter: 41 mm
Between lugs: 20 mm
Helium escape valve
Screw-in crown
Unidirectional rotating bezel
Domed anti-reflective, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 30 bar (300 metres / 1000 feet)
Dial
Blue dial
Bracelet
Stainless steel bracelet
Foldover clasp with diver extension
