Several years ago Omega began to produce Seamaster Planet Ocean watches with ceramic bezel inserts in blue and black, and sometimes white. While some don't consider ceramic to be a proper high-end watch material because it isn't inherently rare, it is complex to produce and highly resistant to wear and scratches with a color that will never fade. The watch industry is going wild for ceramic because for once the promise of high-quality colored watches is becoming more and more a reality. Science and art combine to create vivid colors that don't blur or break. Hues are added by means of adding pigment to the ceramic base before it is baked. Over the last few years we have seen the introduction of blue, brown, pink, and even red ceramic in addition to the traditional monochromatic colors. The new limited edition Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Orange Ceramic is the first of its kind, but hopefully not the last. That is unless they wanted black or white colored pieces. In fact, colored ceramic parts are a dream material to manufacturers because they have vexed engineers for years. Having said that, not all ceramic is created equal, and adding color can be troublesome when it comes to producing a large volume of components. The baking process shrinks the ceramic pieces by about 30% and the resulting piece is many times more scratch resistant than steel. "High-tech" ceramic is a non-metallic material that is formed by compressing a base material and then baking it.
To debut their orange-colored innovation Omega has limited the watch to just eight pieces - each made in a shockingly luxurious solid platinum case. It all comes as part of a growing interest in the watch industry to produce colored ceramic materials beyond the typical black and white colors that have been available since the 1980s.
For 2014 Omega watches introduces a new version of the Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT timepiece with the world's first orange ceramic material-based bezel. Orange ceramic - it doesn't sounds like a big deal but it is.
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