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People can easily mistake the dark navy blue on the Seamaster dial for black or gray. This is because the dial is *not* a solid color. It is a wave pattern made of a very dark blue and a gray-blue. So the dial does have a gray tone in it.

That's part of the sophistication of Omega watches--they use very clever and subtile highlighting and color techniques to keep their dials from looking dull or flat.

Also, dark blue shades are harder than most colors for people to discern because the human eye has a relatively lower density of blue cones (color receptors) in the optical center of the eye. Dark blues are inherently harder photograph and reproduce, since they are lower energy wavelengths -- and become hard to differentiate from other dark colors like gray or black.

So this effect causes the colro of the dial to appear different to different people and when viewed or photographed under different lighting and angles.

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