DIVING EVER DEEPER

Omega's fourth-generation Seamaster Planet Ocean celebrates 20 years of marine exploration

- STORY: TATAT BUNNAG

Omega marks the 20th anniversary of the Seamaster Planet Ocean with the unveiling of an all-new fourth generation — not merely an update, but a decisive rethinking of one of its most important modern dive watch lines.

Introduced through a global rollout that began in Miami and continued in Chongqing, China, the new Planet Ocean arrives as a sharper, slimmer and more lifestyle-oriented evolution, while remaining firmly rooted in Omega's deep-sea heritage.

Chongqing was a deliberate choice. A city of vertiginous topography and cinematic intensity, it feels perpetually futuristic — a metropolis where monorails slice through apartment towers and layered highways coil around mountainsides.

In recent years, viral videos have turned Chongqing into a global curiosity, but its importance long predates social media. As China's wartime capital during World War II, the inland city played a crucial political and strategic role, its rugged geography offering protection during one of the country's most turbulent periods.

Today, glass-and-steel skyscrapers rise from the same steep terrain once dotted with bamboo stilt houses, forming a dense urban collage that glows after dark.

For Omega, particularly in the context of Asia, Chongqing represents progress, resilience and scale - values that align naturally with the Planet Ocean story. Continuing the worldwide launch of the redesigned collection, the brand hosted a dedicated celebration at the Yifang Art Museum, a venue defined by modern geometric forms softened by water features.

The setting echoed the new Planet Ocean itself: architectural, purposeful and inseparable from its marine roots. Thai actor and brand ambassador Kanawut "Gulf" Traipipattanapong was among the guests in attendance.