Omega Seamaster Boutique Edition Red Dial 511 13 40 20 11 002 Omega Watch Review

Hi, this is Tim of The 1916 Company. Welcome, and thanks for logging on. If you love this watch, email me, timosso at the1916company.com, for purchase pricing and availability questions concerning this watch. Today, we're discussing a lovely Omega Seamaster Boutique Edition that celebrates the company's broad-based heritage, and you will find all of that laser-engraved on a chapter ring around the case back, but available exclusively through Omega Boutiques. This is a Seamaster in the fashion of the 1948 original, the first Seamaster. Not a dive watch, or even a hardcore sports watch, but an upscale water-resistant dress watch that is extremely versatile. In steel, 39.5 millimeters in diameter, 12.2 millimeters thick. It's one of the thinnest modern coaxial Omegas. 44.2 millimeters from lug to lug, with a 20 millimeter spacing between the lugs. You can see the watch wears nicely on my 16 centimeter circumference wrist, and in fact, I could recommend this for a wrist as small as 14 centimeters circumference, maybe even a little bit smaller. Nicely profiled to easily fit underneath the cuff. You could absolutely wear this as a dress watch. Taking a look at the strap, an upscale option. We're not used to seeing alligator leather straps on Seamasters, but here it is. Large rectangular symmetrical scales, a very good cut of the animal, something you might expect on a Patek or a Vacheron. You could see semi-gloss black finish. We've got folded edges, a monotone stitch, and then on the bottom, calfskin. You can see that this is an Omega factory strap in excellent condition, with a small steel Omega branded pin buckle. Notice in profile, polished teardrop, a little bit of a soft bevel on the edge. Lyre style lugs, but an elegant manifestation of them with the inward and outward bevel. Satin finished mid case, polished bevel running end to end. We have a combination of polish and media blast on the push down crown. The watch is 60 meters water resistant, which means sufficient for splashes or perhaps exposure to heavy rain, but in the absence of a screw down crown, even with 60 meters, I recommend you not take it swimming. We have a dramatic bubble-like double curved boxed and cambered sapphire designed to evoke a vintage plexi, and then a dial that Omega just described somewhat artlessly as red. I would say it's somewhere between burgundy and black cherry, and I think Omega for once should probably hard sell the beauty of one of its features. They are remarkably mute about the immense pulchritude of this dial, which I find competitive with watches priced multiples the cost of this one. So way to bury the lead, Omega. This is an amazing dial, and as you can see, it is cambered. Look carefully, and you can see it's a gradient from bright at the center to dark at the edge, sloping down in domed fashion with indices that are actually curved to match the outer slope of the dial. You can also see hands as well with a lovely rolled seconds and rolled minute hand, leaf style hands for the hours and minutes with faceted polished dart style indices. What I particularly like is that we have an applique logo and marquee. We have a date where it probably shouldn't offend anyone. I think above the index at six without replacing the index might be the least controversial way to include a date. Now, the watch has hacking seconds. It also has a quick set date function, which works exactly like this. Okay, now taking a quick look around back, you can see that the case back also has a cambered sapphire. The movement's single barrel automatic winding, 55-hour power reserve, hacking second, quick set date, 25,200 vibrations per hour, coaxial escapement, tangential friction rather than sliding invented by George Daniels. It's still a technical highlight. 35 pivot jewels, again, 55-hour power reserve from the single barrel and a full balance bridge and a free sprung balance for shock resistance, anti-magnetic balance, balance staff, escapement, and silicon hairspring. It is a COSC qualified movement, but also a master chronometer, which goes beyond. It's a six position fully assembled chronometry test of the watch to no worse than minus zero plus five seconds per 24 hours. It includes water resistance, durability, winding efficiency, power reserve, and an anti-magnetic test. That 15,000 plus gauss is not a theoretical thing. The movement would have been tested to that. That's over 1.5 Tesla. Astonishing. Taking a look, you can see it is a boutique edition. So we have this laser engraved chaptering that includes highlights from Omega's history. So you've got spacewalks, you've got the lunar lander, you've got the moon, you've got the footsteps, and thus the footprints on the moon, golf, aquatic activities, and the little seahorse, a longtime symbol of the Seamasters. We have America's Cup sailing. We have scuba diving. We have the SI14 balance and silicon hairspring. We have the coaxial escapement. We have Chronos, a longtime symbol of the Omega brand and its predecessor companies. The bear symbolizing the Orbis ocular charity. You've got the manufacturer. You've got the Olympic split second high rate pocket watch timer created for the Olympics. You've got athletics and runners alongside. You've got the observatory chronometers like the early 50s constellation and then the reel of cellulose reminding you that Omega is prolific in film sponsorship and production. So there's a lot to love here. Reach out to Tmosso at the1916company.com for purchase and pricing details of this most unconventional black cherry dial Seamaster.