Omega Seamaster Professional 300m 2006

Tell someone who isn’t into Omega watches that you love the Omega Seamaster Professional 300m 2006 Non-AC and you’ll get a confused look. How can a watch actually be known as a Non-something? It's one of the weirdest names for a watch out there, who on earth calls a watch the 'Omega-Seamaster-Not-The-America's Cup'?

This watch was special though because Omega didn't just take away the America's Cup script off the dial of the Ref 2533.50, they greatly enhanced it by giving it a set of beautifully finished, rhodium-plated white gold applied dial markers.

Taking it a step further, even the Omega logo and lettering was also rhodium plated white gold and riveted into the dial.  Over the years that would come, this would spread across the Omega range as part of the early 2000's quality step undertaken by Omega, but the Non-AC stands out among the lineup as the first watch to bear such special finishing all the way back in 2001.

The Non-AC was a genuinely special watch and a step up from its peers, it carried a significantly higher price tag, nearly twice the price as aluminium bezel Seamaster Pro models of the era.  As a result, it became an instant favorite among collectors, and with an estimate £500 worth of white gold in the bezel, an absolute bargain. 

With the slight colour differentiation of the white gold bezel contrasting with the lighter steel tones of the watch case, and the added 'Peter Blake' sword hands make this a very special watch.