My new Seamaster 300m

I can’t deny it’s a thrill to buy and wear one of the world’s great watches. I bought the new Seamaster 300m in black with a black rubber strap when it first came out, I think in 2018. I returned it as I couldn’t wear the strap, it was hard and cut into my wrist. Not sure if they have upgraded the strap since. The watch however has been on my mind, and I finally pushed the button on the blue version, I guess the version I originally wanted.

The thing about the blue is that it is always shown in pictures with bright illumination, making it appear light. However, when seeing in person, its actually a dark blue in most circumstances, which is what I like. At night with a suite it looks smart, in high sunlight on the beach it morphs into holiday mode!

The SM300m is quite a recent style stream by Omega standards, but in the latest version, it reaches, for my taste, a sort of perfection. There are things I would change, but they are minor.

The ceramic dial is gorgeous, with the subtle wave pattern. All the details are where you would want them. The applied steel pips surrounding a circle of lume, the skeleton hands, the date wheel colour matching the dial. Another indication of the level of finishing is that looking at the dial under a loupe, everything is perfect.

Finished off with the ceramic bezel with ceramic font inlay and the unique bezel grip. Its not one of the easiest bezels to turn (aesthetics over ergonomics!), and the loud click and move doesn’t feel as premium as my high end Seiko divers, but its bang on and precise with no wobble, and looks great.

The alternate matt and polished case sizes are superbly finished and the twisted lugs are very iconic. In my experience of most divers at 15mm or more hight, the SM300m is quite refreshing at 13.7mm. The short lugs and vertical drop of the bracelet, actually slightly inside the lugs, makes it wear very comfortably on my smallish 6.7” wrist.

I love having the glass case back. Not only is it hypoallergenic, but it lets you see one of the best 3 hander movements in the industry.

The bracelet, like the Tudor Black Bay, is somewhat controversial. I like that fact it doesn’t taper, as it makes the whole package feel substantial. Tapering would make it a bit too dainty IMHO. I happen to like multi-link bracelets, where inner links are polished and out ones aren’t. Probably why I like Grand Seiko style as well.

Niggles ? Of course bracelet modification by screw is far superior to pin and collar, but the Omega system of two screws for every link is quite fiddly. I would personally prefer a screw bar. It would also be nice if the smaller links separately articulated.

However its easy to make the bracelet comfortable with the excellent self-adjust clasp and the addition of two micro links.

Every so often a manufacturer makes a sublime design, although evolved over 30 years. In terms of beauty, iconic design, technology and comfort, it feels like Omega has hit the nail on the head with the Seamaster 300m. Very happy I pushed the button after only 2 years of thinking about it

Congrats on your new watch. The 300M is IMO the best diver on the market and is affordable. I love the date at 6 on the latest model.

Enjoy and wear in good health.

Congrats! It is a great watch.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, Leica...... I like-a...........

All good decisions come to those who wait. A really stunner. Wear in good health!

I couldn’t decide between Blue, Black or ceramic when I got mine a year ago. Ended up with the Black Steel version and, even after a wobble a short while back, I still think I got the right watch for me.

Yours looks epic in those shots in fairness.

I have since picked up the Orange Aquaracer, just for a bit of frivolity in the colour. Really like that one too, but it proves to me how amazing the Seamaster is, when you compare the build quality.

Seamaster is definitely the best diver out there, I have no doubt, all things considered.

with a bracelet inferior to the oyster by most opinions?

I just picked up the green one and agree with a lot of what you say. The bracelet is more svelte than I expected and I love the no taper but I'd like to have seen a fully branded clasp cover like the previous generations. A beefy, single-sided screw bar would be easier and just as effective.

I had some concern regarding the case thickness but I think it compares favorably to the early-2000s Seamaster, only a couple millimeters thicker and it wears really well for me. I'm not sold on the skeleton hands simply because they limit the luminous material but they are part of the design and are still totally functional at night. For the green version specifically, I like that Omega kept the pallette limited to green and white although a red-tipped seconds hand would've been okay with me.

Inferior to what? Oh, the vaporware that some other watch company is allegedly providing with their nonexistent watches these days?

Ah, a digital Leica. One day I may get one of those, meantime just had a new batch of Portra 800 to try 😉

OP, your photos do a great job demonstrating all of the fun ways the blue Seamaster 300m catches the light in different settings. That was a huge reason I picked blue over the black- it’s so dynamic.

Very Jelly!!!!!!

Just got a SMPc and I’m very impressed as well.

Love my Leica Binos and Rangefinder also.

Great products

Portra 800?

now you are talking!!!!!


I couldn’t swing the Leica M6, so I opted for the Phase1 H10 back….

Congrats on the new watch! I just acquired the white dial last week and am absolutely in love.

I’m not the biggest fan of the OEM bracelet, so also picked up the rubber strap, which is phenomenal, and the bracelet you see here from Uncle Seiko, which is extremely comfortable and gives the SM a more casual feel.

Congrats, love this watch, definitely one of the nicest divers on the market

I never understood the hate for the bracelet on this watch, I love this bracelet, I wish the Bond 60th had this bracelet, and the NTTD.