Fantastic Omega diver 300M with a chronograph and a Regatta
countdown in titanium it's the ETNZ, coming up.
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this morning we're profiling the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M
ETNZ so I know that's a mouthful Omega likes to use really long names and really long reference
numbers you can find the reference number in the description of the video I won't say it here but
what's cool about this watch is that it's so different from all the other Diver 300ms that
you see floating around so if you're a fan of the Omega special editions or of the America's Cup
race or you just like the look of it this one might be the watch for you it's a really cool
watch it's an all titanium case it's a ceramic bezel and a sapphire crystal and when you look
at this watch the first thing that you notice is that it's a lot of gray silver and red accents
and I love that the red accents have to do with the chronograph function of the watch and so you
have the second hand for the chronograph hand the minutes hand and the hour counter are all red you
also have the upper pusher for the chronograph to start and stop is also in Red so when we look
at this watch there's a lot going on here that I'll explain this is the helium Escape valve
at 10 as we always see on the Seamaster what's different about this one is that in the middle
of it there's a little button and that's what you use to adjust the date so the date is on this one
at 6 o'clock it's a little aperture there and so there's actually a function for this as opposed
to just for you saturation divers so that's pretty cool similar to the other Seamaster 300ms
you can use the chronograph even underwater you don't have to unscrew anything it's ready to go
all the time you can start stop and reset just like a standard chronograph so what you see here
around the pushers they look sort of like the Daytona screw mechanism that you have to unscrew
the pushers before you can use the chronograph on the Daytona not true on this one I can just
push it to stop I can push to reset and push to start again and you never have to unscrew anything
they're really just there to protect the pushers the crown is a standard screw down crown what's
unusual about this watch from the chronograph standpoint is that the minute counter I think
this is pretty ingenious we've all seen how the Rolex Yacht-Master II works it's one of
the most complicated movements that Rolex has ever made and it has the regatta countdown timer
Omega has done a lot of regatta watches as well we've seen we've even reviewed some regatta
watches here on our Channel but this one they took the minute counter and by making it this triangle
one side of the triangle the left side is counting the minutes of the chronograph if you're using it
as a standard chronograph the other side is an arrow pointing at the countdown that goes from
five to one so when you hear the the start signal and you know that that's the five minute warning
this counts it down until you see the start and it's all just integrated into one counter it's
a beauty and simplicity there's no reason for it to be a really complicated design to be able
to count five minutes and so Omega recognized that and made this watch where to me this is
one of the most beautiful things if you can take something that has before seen as something really
complicated to make and just really simple it down where there's not nearly as many moving parts or
unusual things to read one of the things I like about this watch is that not only is the case in
bezel titanium and the case back and the locking deployant Buckle all of that's grade five titanium
but even the dial is titanium and it's marked with a little TI right above the center pinion
so you can see the the dial is a sort of a sandblasted titanium it has an interesting
shimmer to it I think it's a beautiful dial it has a chapter ring around the edge it has the
turning bezel that allows you to line up the 12 o'clock pip with your minute hand and so you could
actually be timing a couple of things at the same time with this watch because as you can turn this
you're timing minutes from your minute hand on the watch while you're also running the chronograph
pretty cool feature if we if you saw this in the in the dark and you saw the lume shot you'd
see that the all of the lume on the watch is blue except for the minute hand and the pip
are green so it makes it real easy to tell what you're reading in a low light condition
the caseback on this one is not an exhibition caseback although it's a very cool movement
that's in the watch it has the logo for the ETNZ team now that stands for Emirates Team
New Zealand and this is the airline Emirates not United Arab Emirates so don't worry about that
this is a team that has just taken the world by storm extremely popular America's Cup team
and when you see these I'm sure you've seen their sailing yachts they look more like aircraft these
days there's so much technology involved and they've modeled the so sort of a design feature
the finish on the strap is modeled after the sales on the sailing yacht and then you have
the logo here as well and this watch came out in 2015 before the 35th America's Cup and it seemed
like everybody in the world watched that America's Cup this particular one that we have the warranty
cards dated 2018 but that's not unusual for a watch to have been produced in one year and sold
in another year so never let that worry if it's a couple of years difference between a what you
know to be the production year and what you see on the warranty card but because this is titanium and
ceramic and sapphire even though it's a 44 millimeter watch it wears really nicely I
mean I'm not going to say that this is going to fit under the cuff of a dress shirt it's
about 18 millimeters thick but my wrists aren't that big they're about seven and a quarter and I
could definitely carry this watch I think it looks great on just about anybody and it's a
little bit deceptive because it doesn't feel like a big heavy 44 millimeter watch even though it is
I think that the the lightness of the titanium sort of offsets that and it makes it a little
bit deceptive but even smaller wrists than mine could carry it it's a beautiful watch
I think it's good for anyone who's a fan of America's Cup maybe you're a fan of the
ETNZ team maybe you just like a different look to your Seamaster or you like titanium versus steel
a lot of people out there have an allergy where steel bothers them titanium is hypoallergenic so
this could be the watch for you but I think it's also just great just purely from an aesthetic
look this is one of the coolest looking special editions and I like the way Omega is real happy
to celebrate their association with the American Cup team and I love that they came out with this
watch using the team colors of the silver white red and black it's just all around a great watch
give us a call we'll be happy to go over all the details and see if it's still in stock for you.