HODINKEE's James Stacey, Rich Fordon, and Danny Milton walk through the history of the Omega Seamaster 300, from inception through to a balance of both its most reverent and its most conspicuous incarnations in the modern era.

It's worth noting that, while Omega's characteristic lyre lugs are most associated with the Omega Speedmaster and the manufacturing date in a number of early lyre lug Speedmaster casebacks date to around the same time as the lyre lugs' debut in the Omega Seamaster 300, commercially speaking, the first Omega to make the complete switch from straight, tapered lugs to lyre lugs was the Seamaster 300.