Omega’s New Seamaster Regatta Is a Tool Watch You Might Actually Use

It helps not to think too hard about heritage tool watches, because the category has fallen into something of a conundrum. The first dedicated timepieces for pilots, divers, explorers, doctors, and all the rest were born as precision instruments, but the world they were created to measure kept a much slower pace than today. Time, ironically, has mostly passed the mechanical tool watch by. Strip away the varnish of nostalgia and you’re left with the fact that a chronograph…