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Yea I don’t think they liked the 6000 meter ultra-deep making their COMEX related marketing around the DSSD look silly.

Thing is though, Omega still has the Ultra-Deep version that went to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, and it has a 25% safety margin built in, so it was built to 12,000 meters and tested to 15,000.

So if they really wanted to annoy Rolex like they’ve been doing a lot this year they could potentially just release that thick boy. Nobody would buy it but it undermines this piece lol.

https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/planet-omega/ocean/worldsdeepestdive

The Rolex watch has a 25% extra margin of depth rating as well.
At the bottom of the ocean it's more or less semantics as they're equally capable.
 
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If the Red Sox don't win, next best thing is watching the Yankees lose. Just the reality of life. 👍

This is why we have a theoretical 324 possible regular season victories per year.
 
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Omega fanboys dissing on just about anything Rolex does. But I can relate. Boston Red Sox fans, of which I've been one for 60 years, hated the NY Yankees. While the Red Sox went 86 years without winning a championship, the Yankees won 26 times. Oh, we had all sorts of reasons for their success and why our team couldn't win the big one, but in the end, it was just jealousy.

Omega makes great watches; my Speedmaster is one I love and wear often. Rolex makes great watches also, I just don't get all the negative comments about them. Wait, maybe I do. 😗
I own Rolex watches as well so the comment is not one sided.
Rolex would of impressed me had they achieved the 11000m rating with dimensions similar to the Ultra Deep.
That would be called innovation.
 
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Rolex would of impressed me had they achieved the 11000m rating with dimensions similar to the Ultra Deep.
That would be called innovation.

Man, I'm not so sure it would be called innovation.
It may be closer to being as fanciful as an Avatar movie.
Physics dictate how small a watch can be to adequately resist the water pressure benchmark given the specs of the materials available at the time.
It seems as though Rolex were working conscientiously toward all their aims and objectives with meeting or exceeding every one of the parameters set by their previous Challenge watch from 10 years ago.
I also consider their biggest hurdle going forward now, will be to make it more affordable for the consumer and still make it palatable to the bean counters or upper echelons at the mothership.
Rolex have now proved their watchmaking prowess in a resounding fashion.
The Ultra Deep that went to the bottom of the trench wasn't exactly small either and certainly not wearable by any reasonable stretch of the imagination from what I saw of it. It wouldn't even pass visually as well as the Rolex Titanium offering does👎
IMHO.
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As I have mentioned before. Come into contact with many offshore oil rig divers (that dive a lot professionally) with work on oil rigs and at the airport, and hands down Seiko is 80-90% the preferred watch… The rest is split with Rolex and Omega.

I know when 1000m divers came in it was a watch/ depth thing that really appealed to the dive community. Now it’s a bling thing that mostly appeals to desk divers.

Seiko is still the most seen watch on a yacht by a long shot. I still see a lot of Rolex and Omega watches in the yacht crowd but if someone asked me the most luxury watch seen on a yacht owners wrists it would have to be without a doubt the Brietling Superocean. This is clearing yachts from all around the world not just a certain region. Funny as I would have never picked it.
Love seeing a 40 year old Rolex or Omega on a yacht owners wrist that has been worn for 40 years on a yacht.
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As I have mentioned before. Come into contact with many offshore oil rig divers (that dive a lot professionally) with work on oil rigs and at the airport, and hands down Seiko is 80-90% the preferred watch… The rest is split with Rolex and Omega.

I know when 1000m divers came in it was a watch/ depth thing that really appealed to the dive community. Now it’s a bling thing that mostly appeals to desk divers.

Seiko is still the most seen watch on a yacht by a long shot. I still see a lot of Rolex and Omega watches in the yacht crowd but if someone asked me the most luxury watch seen on a yacht owners wrists it would have to be without a doubt the Brietling Superocean. This is clearing yachts from all around the world not just a certain region. Funny as I would have never picked it.
Love seeing a 40 year old Rolex or Omega on a yacht owners wrist that has been worn for 40 years on a yacht.
Curious about which Seiko models
 
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Why would anyone actually use a mechanical watch in such physically demanding situations? At that point, the watch is disposable...as were the watches issued to soldiers in WW2...as were the Speedmasters issued to astronauts. The fact that NASA choose the Omega was because it passed the tests and saved NASA the money and time it would have cost to build their own watch from scratch. Today, a plastic digital watch would be the most logical choice since its replacement would be so relatively cheap.
 
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Curious about which Seiko models
That’s the problem with Seiko lately, there is so many models it’s hard to pick what is what at a glance…you can have 3 different watches that look the same and ones $500 the other is $1200 or could it be the $4000 dollar one
 
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I have great admiration for Seiko and yet I never have been attracted enough to one to buy it. Sort of like a Toyota Supra...an excellent car that leaves me cold.
 
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