Omega Updates Seamaster Diver 300M No-Date With Orange Details; Ming Keeps It Simple With 37.02 Monolith; Tusenö Releases Perfect Cocktail Watch Trio; Arnold & Son Shrinks The Steel Globetrotter

Hey friends, welcome back to It’s About Time. I’m back. Barely. Here’s a short one today, but don’t miss the Tusenö.

In this issue

• Omega Updates The Seamaster Diver 300M No-Date With Orange Details

• Ming Goes Back To Simpler Times With Its Black 37.02 Monolith

• Tusenö Releases A Trio Of Perfect Summer Cocktail Watches

• Arnold & Son Shrinks The Steel Globetrotter To 42mm With Two New Colors

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Omega Updates The Seamaster Diver 300M No-Date With Orange Details

Way back when I was just starting college, Omega released a watch that lived rent free in my head for years. It was the Seamaster Planet Ocean with an orange bezel. I have no idea why I was so obsessed with that watch. The obsession has since passed for me, but Omega still loves orange — an important color in dive watches. And what we have today very much reminded me of that Planet Ocean. A lot of people got extremely upset online with Omega last year when they released the no-date version of the Seamaster Diver 300M. The overwhelming criticism I saw was that it was not revolutionary enough. Of course, Omega, like so many luxury watch brands, doesn’t do revolutions. They slowly iterate, expanding their lineup to fit every possible taste imaginable. I don’t mind it, as I look to Omega for my boring and bulletproof watches, and elsewhere for excitement. Their latest release today is just such a watch — the Seamaster Diver 300M no-date with a black dial and orange details.

Based on the recently updated no-date model of the Seamaster Diver 300M, it keeps all the stuff I really liked from that update — an aluminium bezel and dial, both in black here, as well as a box-shaped sapphire crystal. The case is made out of stainless steel and measures 42mm wide and 13.8mm thick. On the right side is the protected crown, while the helium escape valve sits at 10. The overall finish is brushed, with a few polished accents. The 60 minute scale is engraved into the aluminium bezel and lumed. Water resistance is, no surprise, 300 meters.

The black dial doesn’t have the engraved wave patter, but rather a grained finish which is pretty nice. The hour markers are circular, with rectangles at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock. It’s those rectangular markers that are outlined in orange, with more orange found on the lollipop seconds hand and the Seamaster logo. That’s about it when it comes to range details, as everything else is rhodium plated. Everything, is, of course, lumed with green and blue glowing lume.

Inside, another familiar. It’s the Calibre 8806 which has been used in several previous versions of the Seamaster. It’s, of course, METAS Master Certified Chronometer, beats at 25,200vph and has a 55 hour power reserve. The rotor is finished with Arabesque Côtes de Genève and red varnished lettering. The watch can be had on either a steel mesh bracelet (very similar to the No Time To Die Seamaster that’s done in titanium) with a folding clasp, or a black rubber strap with a foldover clasp..

The new Omega Seamaster Diver 300M No-Date Orange is part of the permanent collection and available now. Price is set at €6,800 on rubber and €7,200 on steel. I would have loved it with an orange bezel, I think. See more on the Omega website.

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Ming Goes Back To Simpler Times With Its Black 37.02 Monolith

Ming is going through a wonderfully interesting transformation. From incredibly cool and unique watches that had a few deliverability hick-ups, they are now starting to create some of the most interesting watches on the market. While they still sell watches that are somewhat accessible, they’ve also spread out into all price points, very much motivated to do so with the winning of a GPHG award for their diver. The past several releases we’ve seen from them have all been easily in the five figure ranges. To combat this, Ming has the 37.02 range which brings back everything we loved about the old Ming, just better. The latest in the lineup is the 37.02 Monolith, which comes in a dark case.

Being a 37 series watch, the case has great proportions. It measures 38mm wide, 11mm thick and has a 44.5mm lug-to-lug. The case is made out of stainless steel and has a anthracite DLC-coating on top, paired with the curvy body, pagoda-style lugs and notched crown of the 37 series. The double domed sapphire crystal extends to the very edge of the case, which has a matte brushed finish. Water resistance is 100 meters.

Things are kept very simple on the dial side, perhaps needed after a series of super-complicated dials we’ve seen from them lately. It’s a black surface that has laser-cut channels that act as bold hour markers and are filled with the brand’s proprietary Polar White luminous material which glows white. I’ve seen it live in Geneva and it really is stunning. Only when you see it do you realize how non-white other white lume is. The hour and minute hands are finished with blue-emitting Super-LumiNova X1 inserts.

Inside, you’ll find the ubiquitous Sellita SW300-1, an automatic movement that’s customized for Ming with skeletonised anthracite bridges, plates, and rotor. It beats at 4Hz and has a 45 hour power reserve. The watch comes on a yellow FKM rubber strap with a black DLC-coated tuck buckle.

The new Ming 37.02 Monolith is limited to 100 pieces, but that’s 100 pieces per year. Price is set at CHF 3,500. See more on the Ming website.

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Tusenö Releases A Trio Of Perfect Summer Cocktail Watches

There’s something particularly pleasing to a summer cocktail. Hiding behind your sunglasses, too hot to think, all you can muster to the barkeep is: “Give me a mojito”. Less than two minutes later, you’re holding a dripping wet glass filled with ice, and the most refreshing liquid you can imagine at the moment. Pair that with a cocktail watch, and you’re having a pretty good afternoon. A cocktail watch is a lesser known genre of watches. While officially defined as “a women’s designer watch intended to be worn with formal evening dress as a piece of jewellery”, over the years a cocktail watch has come to embrace smaller sizes, bold shapes and bright colors. Think, stuff like the Bulgari Serpenti or the higher end, and the Seiko Presage Cocktail Time on the lower. Well, now, we’re getting a new entrant into the genre, and from the most unlikely of sources. The Swedish based Tusenö is best known for their subdued sports watches. What they just put out is a trio of colorful and small oval watches styled after cocktails and carrying the funky Supervintage name.

All three Supervintage watches share the same case, a tiny pebble-like, oval, polished stainless steel case with no lugs. When I say tiny, I mean tiny. It measures 34.5mm wide and 8.7mm thick. And while that might not sound all that minuscule, its lack of lugs makes it only 40.5mm long, which is pretty cool. On top is a double domed sapphire crystal with a transparent caseback. Water resistance is 30 meters.

Then, we have the dials. Oh, those dials. Each is inspired by a cockail — Negroni, Espresso Martini and Mojito. The colors should be pretty self evident here. The Negroni has an orange to red gradient chapter ring and a red textured inner ring, with an orange small seconds display. The Espresso Martini has a brown outer ring and small seconds paired with an ivory central part. And the Mojito has a green outer ring and small seconds, both with sunray brushed surfaces, and a frosted lime green inner part. All three have incredibly fun numerals and domed leaf hands with chamfered pinion covers.

Inside, the movement you definitely expected in a watch of this shape, the ETA Peseux 7001. It’s a tiny hand-wound movement that’s had an uptick in popularity thanks to all the small and oddly shaped watches we have seen in recent times. It beats at 3Hz and has a 45 hour power reserve. The watches come on black (for the Mojito and Negroni) or brown (for the Espresso Martini) leather straps.

The Tusenö goes on pre-order on July 30th, and will be available for pre-order until August 6th. Price during that time is set at €999, after which it goes up to €1,099. See more on the Tusenö website.

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Arnold & Son Shrinks The Steel Globetrotter To 42mm With Two New Colors

John Arnold wasn’t the type to settle for “good enough.” Back in the golden age of madcap seafaring (think: powdered wigs and the East India Company pushing ships into uncharted waters), his marine chronometers kept explorers like Captain Cook safely off the rocks. Fast-forward a couple centuries and while your greatest navigational peril might be missing an airport latte, Arnold & Son is still flying the flag for slightly eccentric travel watches. They do that with their Globetrotter world timer, one of my favorites on the market. Now, the steel version of the Globetrotter gets a more manageable size and two great colors.

The original Globetrotter came in a truly substantial case, one that measured 45mm wide and 17.23mm. Pair that with the fact that most of them were made out of platinum, and you would feel that thing on your wrist. Now, this new and smaller case is not only made out of steel, it also measures 42mm wide and 15mm thick. Still not small, but better. On top is a huge domed sapphire crystal, surrounded by a thin, fixed, bezel. Water resistance is 30 meters.

There are two dial version, but they have the same setup, just different colors. The first thing that catches your eye are the huge arched steel bridges that connect the sides of the watch with the central section which is a three-dimensional dome depicting the northern hemisphere with sunray brushed rhodium or gold colored continents, depending on the colorway. That dome, quite spectacularly, rotates once every 24 hours and holds city names around its perimeter. Surrounding the dome is a bead blasted fixed ring with a 24 hour scale, which matches up with the cities and gives you the local time. Around the fixed ring is a brushed and dished surface with 12 Roman numerals, pointed to with tiny hands that are hidden under the dome. The Strand Blue version has a blue globe and silver surroundings and blue numerals, while the Greenwich Green gets an all green treatment with golden oceans and numerals.

Inside, you’ll find the in-house calibre A&S6122, an automatic that beats at 4Hz and has a 55 hour power reserve. Finishings include bridges decorated with ‘Rayons de la Gloire’, circular graining on the main plate and a skeletonised, engraved tungsten rotor. The watch comes on a color matched alligator strap, closed with a steel pin buckle.

The new Globetrotter 42 Steel is a limited edition of 88 pieces per color, priced at CHF 18,300. See more on the Arnold and Son website.

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