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Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 6000M Ultra Deep: Specs, References & Value | Ultimate Watch

The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 6000M Ultra Deep is the deepest-rated production dive watch Omega has ever put on a bracelet, and it comes with a real story behind it, not a marketing one. In 2019 Omega strapped three experimental Ultra Deep prototypes to Victor Vescovo's DSV Limiting Factor submersible during the Five Deeps Expedition and rode them to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters down, the deepest point on Earth. All three came back running and all three still passed Master Chronometer certification afterward. Three years later, in March 2022, Omega turned that experiment into a watch you can actually buy: 45.5mm, water resistant to 6,000 meters (20,000 feet), and built to the ISO 6425:2018 standard for saturation divers. We see these across the counter at our shop on 47th Street, both the O-MEGASTEEL versions and the sandblasted titanium, and it is one of the few modern Omega sports pieces where the spec sheet is not exaggerating. This is a genuinely over-engineered tool watch that happens to wear like a large luxury diver.

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Specifications

ModelOmega Seamaster Planet Ocean 6000M Ultra Deep
Case Diameter45.5mm
Case Thickness18.12mm
Lug To Lug51.9mm (O-MEGASTEEL); titanium versions run to roughly 56mm depending on bracelet fit
Lug Width22mm
Case MaterialO-MEGASTEEL (a patented nickel-free, nitrogen and manganese boosted stainless alloy roughly 40 to 50 percent harder than conventional 316L) or sandblasted Grade 5 titanium
BezelUnidirectional rotating dive bezel with a brushed black ceramic ring and white or matching enamel diving scale
CrystalDomed sapphire, approximately 5.2mm thick at the center, with anti-reflective coating
DialLacquered pattern reproducing the actual sonar map of the floor of the Challenger Deep, mapped by the Five Deeps team from close to one million sonar points; also offered as a black ceramised titanium…
MovementOmega Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8912
Movement TypeAutomatic, Co-Axial escapement, free-sprung balance, two barrels
Power Reserve60 hours
Frequency25,200 vph (3.5 Hz)
Jewels39
Magnetic ResistanceResistant to magnetic fields greater than 15,000 gauss (1.5 tesla)
AccuracyMaster Chronometer certified by METAS, 0 to +5 seconds per day
Water Resistance6,000 meters / 20,000 feet, no helium escape valve required due to the sealed conical-crown case construction, ISO 6425:2018 saturation diver rated
CrownPatented conical screw-down crown design that keeps helium out rather than venting it
Year IntroducedConcept 2019 (Five Deeps); commercial collection launched March 2022

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The single fact that carries this watch in collector circles is the hull metal. The experimental 2019 prototypes were machined from forged Grade 5 titanium offcuts left over from the DNV-GL certified pressure hull of the Limiting Factor submersible, so the watches that touched the deepest point on Earth were literally made from the same metal as the vessel that took them there. The other detail insiders point to is the certification stunt: after being crushed at full trench pressure and back, all three watches still re-passed Master Chronometer testing, which is not a claim most tool-watch makers would put in writing. Purists sometimes call the 6,000m rating pointless, and technically they are right, no human is saturation diving to 6,000 meters on a wrist. But the number is proof, not a use case, and that distinction is exactly why the piece has a following. The Challenger Deep sonar-map dial, built from close to a million real sonar points, is the design flourish that ties the whole story back to the seafloor it came from.

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