The Omega Seamaster 300 Bronze Gold is an eye-catching combination of old and new. In both style and technology, the watch looks past and future in an incredibly great way.
Clock design is, to the greatest extent possible, cutting-edge science. The development of clock movements is the pinnacle of human mechanical knowledge, and with the top marks, the same line must be carried through the entire design of a watch, from large entities to the smallest details. Everything from the surface treatment of the board to the corrosion resistance of the glaze and in between are the subject of rigorous product development.

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Materials technology is one of the areas where watch manufacturers compete with each other and with the best technological know-how in the world. Several high-end watch houses have created their own materials for their brand, which create interesting stories and interesting textures for the watches. New materials can also be used to control the behavior of the material in harsh conditions.
Hublot has long followed the path of unique materials in its watch development with its Art of Fusion philosophy and has created interesting, purely experimental hybrid materials such as Texalium carbon fiber-aluminum composite and Hublot Classic Fusion Aerofusion Chronograph Concrete Jungle – a concrete epoxy used in watches. However, these are more or less about pursuing a story than about honing material qualities to perfection.
Creating purely alloys has its own challenges. So many alloys have already been invented, numbered, and archived in the mystical archives of standard holders – where it doesn’t shine a day that creating something new is difficult.
However, the success of some houses in the material development of the watch case is so legendary that, for example, steel has started to go by the trade name given by the watch manufacturer instead of the three-digit SAE steel classification, such as austenitic chromium-molybdenum steel SAE904L – or Oyster Steel. Let it be that the 904L had already been developed before Rolex introduced it in all its fake watches in 2003. However, Rolex took the development even further in its own name and developed manufacturing methods to produce an even cleaner Oyster Steel.
SAE904L was developed when the traditional stainless steel 316L was not sufficiently corrosion resistant. The addition of nickel, chromium, copper and molybdenum made the steel even more resistant to decades of corrosion resistance than stainless steel.
In 2021, Swatch Group’s metallurgists are on the verge of a new materials technology breakthrough. Not that Omega is creating their own metal for the first time. In addition to replica Omega, the Swatch Group’s smelter has for decades served brands such as Breguet, Jaquet Droz and Blancpain. Perhaps the best known of these is the exceptionally red Sedna gold developed by the Swatch Group Metallurgists, in which 18 carat gold is mixed with palladium and copper to prevent oxidation and enhance the red color.
This year, Omega’s esotericists in materials technology have taken the oldest of metals, bronze. To use it, above all, from the point of view of corrosion in the most challenging application, i.e. the diver’s watch.