In questa pagina, le immagini
illustrano come la Maison
sia riuscita a contenere lo
spessore sotto i 28 mm.
Il vetro zaffiro, adattato
mediante una giunzione
a caldo su Liquidmetal®,
non supera i 10 millimetri di
altezza. La lunetta è girevole.This page, these images
show how the maison
manage to keep the watch’s
thickness under 28 mm.
Omega used Liquidmetal®
to ensure a firm yet flexible
sapphire-to-casebody
assembly. The bezel is
rotating.sented to the world on June 20 last in London.
But let’s take a step back in time to June 23
1936 when, having set the world diving record
aboard the Bathysphere off Nonsuch Island,
in the Bermudas (-923 metres), marine biolo-
gist Charles William Beebe dove to 14 metres
in the Pacific Ocean wearing an Omega Ma-
rine, the maison’s first diver’s watch complete
with double case. The latter was followed by
the Seamaster in 1948, the Seamaster 300 in
1957, the “Ploprof” in 1970 (water-resistant
to 600 metres) and then the Seamaster 1000
(1971), the Seamaster Diver 300M (1993) and
the Planet Ocean (2005), all milestones in hor-
ological history. Now the Bienne maison had
added the Ultra Deep to that illustrious list. The
three examples made were tested at a depth
of 10,928 metres in the Challenger Deep last
May and passed with flying colours. Omega
attached two to the robotic arms of Vescovo’s
Limiting Factor while the third was located on
one of three Landers designed to collect sam-
ples for analysis and on which it remained 48
hours, before returning safely to the surface in
perfect working order. The maison designed