(646) 220-7487 Sell Your Watch → Home / Encyclopedia / Omega / Omega Seamaster 1948 Guide: Vintage Original vs 70th Anniversary Reissue | Ultimate Watch Omega Seamaster 1948 Guide: Vintage Original vs 70th Anniversary Reissue | Ultimate Watch The Seamaster 1948 is where the whole Seamaster line begins, and it is one of the few Omega families that means two very different watches depending on who you are talking to. Say it to a vintage collector and they picture the original 1948 bumper-automatic dress watch, roughly 34mm to 36mm, that Omega launched to mark its centenary. Say it to a modern buyer and they picture the 2018 70th Anniversary Limited Editions, a pair of 38mm steel Master Chronometers built in a run of 1,948 pieces each. Both are the same idea: a clean, water-resistant, understated Omega that reads as dress from three feet away and reveals its engineering up close. We buy and sell both versions across the counter at Ultimate Diamond on 47th Street, and they trade for wildly different money, so getting the reference right matters before anyone quotes you a number.
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Collector's Lore The caseback is the detail collectors obsess over on the reissue: the flat sapphire is laser-engraved and hand-lacquered with the 70th anniversary logo, a Chris-Craft mahogany boat, and a Gloster Meteor jet, a nod to Omega's mid-century sport and aviation ties rather than to diving, which is a reminder that in 1948 the Seamaster was not yet a dive watch at all. The bumper movement in the originals is its own piece of lore; you can feel the rotor thud against its buffers on the wrist, a sensation later full-rotor Omegas lost. And the name itself is the origin marker for everything that followed, so a Seamaster 1948 is the one you buy when you want to own the first chapter of a story that runs all the way to the Bond divers.
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