Seamaster Heritage 75th Summer Blue

Also, just saw your post over on reddit! Congratulations on the new watch! share some pictures when you have a chance.

Everybody I have dealt with at the Bellevue OB (or talked to) is great, if I ever decide to Source a Snoopy or 321 I definitely will be talking to them 100%.

Couple more shots. I just can't get over how dynamic and fluid this style is ! Seems like a couple of other members are getting these now and I can't wait to see pictures from others.

That's going to be a very special Seamaster. 👍

The 300m Heritage and the SMPc (300m Seamaster Professional Diver) are very different watches. Overall, the Heritage is much more subtle in appearance, wears a bit smaller and has a decidedly vintage vibe. The SMPc wears larger and has some design cues that give it a thoroughly modern appearance with more bling than the Heritage. The Heritage has the sandwich dial whereas the SMPc has the ceramic waves dial. The Heritage has a coin edge bezel with a lumed oxalic coated aluminum insert whereas the SMPc has the scalloped bezel with a ceramic insert. The sapphire crystal on the Heritage looks more like a bubble plexi, has the anti-reflective coating only on the inside, and lends itself to some optical distortion effects like the hesalite crystal on the Speedmaster. The slightly domed sapphire crystal on the SMPc has the anti-reflective coating on both sides which makes the dial easier to read than the Heritage, but the coating on the exterior of the crystal can also pick up scratches. Both watches share a display case back and outstanding lume. Each have distinctive design cues (SMPc: lyre lugs, scalloped bezel, skeleton hands, helium escape valve; Heritage: straight lugs, coin edge bezel, broad arrow hands, lollipop second hand). Both watches have cutting edge movements -- the Heritage opts for a time zone function whereas the SMPc has the date function. Finally, both have distinctive but very different bracelets with micro-adjustment -- the Heritage has a new flat link bracelet whereas the SMPc continues with the chunkier Bond style bracelet. In the end, you can't really go wrong with either one. It's just a matter of which one appeals more to your sense of style.

Couple more pics in morning sunlight.

If you like highly Dynamic dials and are a fan of blue dials, I say go for it! There may be another dial out there like this but I haven't seen it if so.

Jgdill from watchuseek shared these two images of his watch on a Seamaster chronograph navy blue strap. Pretty wild how much the dial changes from outdoor indirect sunlight, to indoor high K LED or florescent. Even in outdoor sunlight this dial changes throughout the day and the amount of cloud cover and how gray the sky is can have a huge impact on how it looks...

“Can I wear my Seamaster while babysitting frogs?”

You can wear it while sitting frogs
You can wear it in cranberry bogs
You can wear it while eating spam
It’s a damn nice watch, Sam I am

As @Meme-Dweller said, it's a very light blue. Here are a couple (more) Fairly true-to-color pictures:

This dial does some interesting things with light, and can scatter it away in a kind of shimmer which is really pretty. It's almost impossible to photograph, and what typically happens is my cell phone camera attempts to compensate for the light it is detecting, and this can result in the markers looking white or even the dial looking very white at the center.

When that happens, this is kinda what the camera may see:



It's essentially impossible to get a picture of this effect. To the human eye it looks like the dial is giving off a very subtle glow. Color adjusted though it looks more like this:





I wrote this thread well over a year ago and I am still very happy with this watch. It has a very wide range of color and lighting effect that is typically very subtle and very pleasing.

Also, as @Meme-Dweller essentially stated, there are some fakes of this, although I suspect probably not that many are actively out there. And if you have seen an actual summer blue heritage, The Fakes immediately give themselves away. The dial is very special on these and I'm not sure a fake will ever do it justice.

You can almost see the glow in this picture.



And and low light conditions when the dial glows the camera doesn't seem to have as much trouble picking up that glow:



Very cool picture, but again not exactly true to what the watch looks like. Just, my camera picking up the light in a certain way.


Here's another very low light shot. The upper background of this image should be a light olive green, but there is so little light the camera almost can't make that out. The lume is so bright and crisp that it is Illuminating the dial, and the dial is reflecting all of that light as a low level glow. Looks so cool in person.



...And it looks just as good in winter as it does in summer!