Ultra Deep Technology
In May 2019, all those achievements were superseded by Victor Vescovo, his Limiting Factor submarine and not one, but three Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional diver watches fakes. Omega says that all three watches replicas “performed perfectly under extraordinary pressure.” Although that is every reason to be proud, what I find yet more impressive is how Omega’s depth-defying watch is the most timepiece-like of all those to have ever tick-tocked underneath a 6.79-mile-high body of water.Making this impressive feat possible is what Omega calls “Ultra Deep Technology” that comprises 1) a viewport design, 2) manta lugs, 3) the heavy use of forged grade 5 titanium, 4) Master Chronometer calibers, and 5) a solid Liquidmetal bond in the sapphire-to-casebody assembly. In other words, it takes one highly engineered and very special watch to reliably perform under 15,750 pounds per square inch of pressure. In lay terms that means every square centimeter of the watch is supporting the weight of a small size car (just around 2,400 pounds or 1,100 kilograms). Imagine a bezel, a sapphire crystal or a screw-down crown, each balancing a bunch of cars — without a single crack.
Adding to their remarkable performance is the fact that Omega watch replica has, in fact, insisted on adding the 25% safety margin — testing with such a safety margin over the labeled depth rating is mandatory for all certified dive watches replica, but certainly is unexpected for a watch for which that extra 25% “margin” unto its own means another 3,000 meters. Wow! That adds up to a depth rating of a mind- (and everything else-) bending 49,212 feet.
Slim Titanium Case
Upon a superficial glance, the only detail that could really bring out a smile is Omega calling its Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional replica “surprisingly slim and light at less than 28mm-[thick].” As always, once we apply context, though — basically all the cool details that we just shared above — that thickness suddenly becomes truly impressive. Adding around 12 millimeters of thickness over run-of-the- mill professional dive watches and attaining such extreme water resistance is quite a feat and a result of a combination of clever case construction and use of materials.
Inspired by the viewport assembly of a submersible, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional black watch fake the “sapphire-to-case” assembly Omega humbly identifies as “an area of concern.” The goal here is to cleverly distribute the immense load and stress, avoiding the formation of any high-pressure points in the construction. You need not go all the way to the Mariana Trench for a slightly ill-fitting crystal or bezel insert to deform — halfway down the watch will already look like a penny that a train ran over. The conical design of load bearing components helps for a perfectly even distribution of those immense forces.
The so-called manta lugs are formed from the titanium “casebody” itself but are left open in the center to lower the risk of material limitations experienced at full ocean depth. Down there, the watch and the strap can be subjected to high traction loads where it’s better to leave some extra space when every component begins its own fight with the elements. On a personal note, I would love to see the manta lugs on a series produced Seamaster — more on this in the closing paragraph.
The hull of DSV Limiting Factor is crafted from forged grade 5 titanium and, guess what, it worked for the watch just the same. The case of the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional watch fake is a whopping 52mm in diameter, the bezel, case, caseback, and crown are all machined from cutoffs from the submersible’s titanium hull — upcycling at its finest. Omega even went the extra mile to apply a high-polished Omega logo on the crown, set against a matte backdrop.
Caseback
Keeping accurate time on the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional replica was the duty of Omega Master Chronometer calibers. Right on the edge of the caseback, Omega does, in fact, specify the exact caliber that powered the Ultra Deep on its foray down to its record-setting depths: It was the Omega Master Chronometer Co-Axial Caliber 8912, a METAS-certified three-hand movement that is also found in its Ploprof watches, as reviewed here.Liquidmetal is a unique way of applying metal that Omega has been using for years, mostly for the graduations set into the ceramic bezels on its dive watches. For the construction of the Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional, Omega reached to this patent-pending technology to ensure a firm, yet flexible sapphire-to-casebody assembly.
The Ultra Deep is rated to a depth of 15,000 meters. That’s 49,000 feet, and a good deal deeper than the absolute deepest point on any of earth’s oceans. It makes one wonder how Omega could top itself (or, even more interesting, perhaps, how Rolex could top Omega). Clearly, however, we are running out of physical space on our planet to send these little mechanical devices.
Deep Ocean Omega Replica
Finally, why do Omega, and we, care about taking a watch to the bottom of the ocean? Extreme depth ratings have long been chased and championed by watch brands. The Swiss brand, Jenny, laid claim to the first 1,000-meter watch in the 1960s, and Omega followed in 1972 with its Seamaster replica 1000, known as "The Grand." We’ve seen oil-filled quartz watches from Bell & Ross achieve 11,000-meter depth ratings, and mechanical divers are rated to two- and even three-thousand meters regularly these days. But with the Planet Ocean Ultra Deep, it is a record that cannot be beaten and that alone is significant, since the last record has stood since 1960.To be clear, no one will ever strap on one of these extreme-rated watches and dive anywhere close to their "crush depth." Scuba divers typically stay above 30 meters and few these days even bother to wear a wristwatch. Watchmaking is not purely about practicality. It is about human ingenuity, tinkering, and problem-solving. It is why we appreciate a tourbillon, a dead-seconds, or an equation of time complication. The same reason I like to glance at my wrist 100 feet underwater and imagine the wheels and springs in precise harmony calmly ticking away on my wrist, is why it’s also inspiring to see an Omega keeping perfect time at 10,928 meters for two days.
