Skyfall features a new Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m
Updates include a gun metal grey ceramic bezel, improved font on the numeral indices, just a flash of color on the orange tip of the seconds hand, & the “Seamaster” logo.
The biggest update came with one of Omega’s nicest movements to date, the Co-Axial 8500.
To view the movement, Omega added a sapphire crystal case back window, which did add a little thickness to the watch, but so worth it. The fact that Omega was able to put a display case back on a functional diver’s watch up to 600m is a wonder.
Omega releasing a limited-edition watch to accompany the latest film — Craig’s third installment as Bond and the seventh to feature an Omega — set to open worldwide in November.
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M ”Skyfall” Limited Edition, like every watch in the Seamaster collection, is a divers’ model equipped with a unidirectional rotating diving bezel (here in matte black ceramic with a chromium nitride diving scale) and a helium escape valve, and is water-resistant to 600 meters (2,000 feet). The watch has a 42-mm brushed and polished stainless-steel case and a matching, patented screw-and-pin bracelet with a divers’ clasp engraved with a “007” logo. The applied indices on the matte black dial, along with the polished, faceted, rhodium-plated hands, are coated with white Super-LumiNova, which emits a light blue glow in the dark. The only exception is the minute hand, which glows green instead, as does the dot on the diving bezel. The contrasting colors are meant to make it easier for divers to keep track of the time at a glance underwater. The index at the 7 o’clock position is a “007” logo. The date is in a window at 3 o’clock. The watch’s movement is Omega’s exclusive new co-axial Calibre 8507, here embellished with a black-varnished engraving of the “SKYFALL 007” logo on its rotor. In addition to Omega’s familiar co-axial escapement, the movement also features an “Si14” silicon balance spring for added stability. The movement is visible through a sapphire window in the brushed, screw-down caseback. Omega offers a four-year warranty on the watch.
