The production version works 6,000 meters below sea level, setting a new bar for the industry.
is rated to 3,900 meters. First appearing in 2008, at the time the Deepsea more than tripled the water resistance of Rolex's next best diver, in part thanks to 5mm-thick sapphire crystal to battle the underwater pressure. With the production version of the Ultra Deep, Omega has raised the bar significantly on performance dive watches.
Starting at £10,060 , there are seven iterations of the 2022 Ultra Deep. It's understandably chunky in design, considering the pressures it is built to endure. But with a 45.5 mm case and thickness of 18.12 mm it is slimmer than the concept, despite the domed sapphire crystal covering the dial having to cope with 7.5 tons of pressure.
In a welcome echo of the concept, Omega has kept the design it created for the lugs on this titanium model, the watch parts that connect the strap to the case. Integrated into the case body, they are left open, as this apparently decreases stress points at ocean depth. Omega has termed them “manta” lugs due to their resemblance to the manta ray's cephalic lobes.
Omega says it had to develop a new facility to test the watches at 600 bar —with an added 25 percent extra as a safety margin—but it would not give any details of this new testing equipment. It has also constructed the steel versions of the watch in a patent-pending new alloy the company is branding "O-megasteel." This material is supposedly more than twice as strong as the stainless steel using in watchmaking.
scale, a hardness test for materials, which is roughly 50 percent higher than conventional stainless steel.
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