Omega Seamaster “Peter Blake”
A Surface Warfare Officer aboard an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. "In NWU Type 3s I was about to attend a Chief pinning ceremony, where First Class Petty Officers officially become Chiefs." In Bulwarks, down in a main engine room supervising a part installation. The ship is in a maintenance phase, and the job is in the engineering department. On the wrist, an Omega Seamaster, the "Peter Blake." If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Omega Seamaster "Peter Blake"
The Peter Blake is a collectors' name, not an Omega one. It attaches to the Seamaster Professional 300M reference 2254.50: a black wave dial, a red tipped seconds hand, and solid sword hands in place of the skeleton hands most of the line wore. The case is about 41mm, and the movement is Omega's calibre 1120, an automatic built on the ETA 2892, chronometer rated as the dial says.
The name belongs to Sir Peter Blake, the New Zealand yachtsman who led Team New Zealand to America's Cup wins in 1995 and 2000 and was an Omega ambassador from 1995. Omega was chief sponsor of his environmental expeditions and of his vessel, named Seamaster after the watch. In December 2001, pirates boarded that boat at Macapá, Brazil, and Blake was shot and killed.
The Diver 300M line itself dates to 1993. The extra crown at ten o'clock is its helium escape valve.
The pinning
A Chief pinning ceremony marks the day First Class Petty Officers are pinned with the fouled anchors of a Chief Petty Officer, at the end of a six week induction known as CPO 365 Phase Two.