Omega Seamaster De Ville 147.700

Omega Seamaster De Ville 147.700 in stainless steel, a black cross-hair dial with a date function and fitted with a black textured leather strap. This has an automatic-winding Calibre 560, serial dates this watch to 1961. Look familiar? It should, this is the same version of the watch the character Don Draper (John Hamm) wore in Mad Men.

After the Rolex Explorer and Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, Mad Men’s Don Draper has now been spotted with an Omega. In episode 6 of the 5th season of Mad Men TV-series, Don Draper impatiently checks his Omega Seamaster DeVille watch sitting in a diner waiting for his lady.

Despite being introduced as a watch with a water resistant case, the 1950s Seamaster watches were very elegant and not that far away from the more luxurious Constellation collection. In the 1960s, Omega started to develop the Seamaster as a diver’s watch, as we know it today, and introduced the Seamaster DeVille as their more dressy collection of watches.

Don Draper wears a Seamaster DeVille with a black dial and a date indicator.  This 34mm watch is considered to be one of the nicer automatic calibers that Omega produced in those years. The Seamaster DeVille on the wrist of Mr Draper is early-mid 1960s. Later on, Omega re-introduced the DeVille as a separate collection of the brand.

Fully serviced, timed and adjusted, new OEM parts where required, otherwise parts were re-conditioned and re-used, and offered with our 2 year warranty of accurate time keeping and operation. 

Credit to fratellowatches for some of the write-up.