Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatch Expo.
We've got a whole lot of Aqua Terras.
Yeah.
I love this watch because it really embodies the idea that you could have one watch that
could kind of do everything, that it can be a little bit toward dressy but it's a sporty
watch on a steel bracelet.
It kind of has the same feel to me is a Rolex Datejust that people would be more familiar
with where it's a little sporty but a little dressy, and kind of a one all purpose watch.
It's an interesting thought because actually it's compared directly to the Explorer.
Interesting.
Yeah, so they took the idea of the Seamaster and they kind of took from the Datejust too,
let's be honest.
Okay.
Because they wanted to give that more elegant case and to be very clear, it does very much
look like a Datejust case.
But they claim that it isn't a competitor with the Explorer.
Why?
Because they only appeared and a lot of people think they've been around a long time.
They'd only been around since 2003.
I didn't realize that.
I went when I first realized that obviously I've been around the watch world for a long
time.
I felt like they'd been around a long time because the Seamaster name had been around
a long time and I knew that the Aqua Terra was sort of a, an offshoot of the Seamaster.
So in my brain I'm thinking, yeah, this thing's been around since, I don't know the 70s at
least.
Plus it's got a lot of the historically, uh, Omega design cues.
If you look at the lugs, that's the same twisted lug that we've seen on the Speedmaster since
the late sixties, early seventies.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
And the crown looks very similar.
It has an Omega aesthetic an Omega feel to it.
Uh, that seems to go back longer than it would.
The reality is absolutely.
So there's been a couple of changes and I say couple of, kind of have a load of sarcasm
because there's no logic backwards here is sort of like, um, you know, I think watch
guys are, are a lot into cars too, right?
Sure.
So I, I attribute the Aqua Terra to my feel of what Pontiac was for General Motors.
It was the test division.
All the new fancy stuff came out on the Pontiacs first and then it sort of creeped in to everything
else.
The Cadillacs and the Chevrolet.
Yeah, so all the neat new technology pops up here and Aqua Terra started out as the
idea of something you could wear.
Absolutely.
Every day.
It didn't the depth rating of the Seamaster, but it was a rugged piece.
It was thinner, it was nicer.
It started out with a satin bracelet, which we can actually see on this one, and I'm grabbing
this one first.
It's a quartz model.
They do have a quartz model of this one.
A lot of people don't remember that it even exists.
It's very lightweight.
It's got the satin bracelet.
It's a really nice piece.
It does not have the teak dial, which is something that the Seamaster, I'm sorry, the Aqua Terra,
it's even, I get confused sometimes.
The Aqua Terra has the teak dial and the vertical dial is very important, is the first dial.
Okay.
It wasn't until recently that they went with the horizontal teak dial, meaning the original
lines on the dial ran sort of 12 to six.
Now they run from nine to three and this is a design aesthetic at Omega says
it comes inspired by the teak decking on the decks of sailing yachts that it's supposed
to vote.
This idea of adventure, that the watch is good for the land or the sea.
That's what the two words would mean.
So it's an interesting design choice they made with the vertical lines and then horizontal.
I don't know why they made the change.
Uh, have you heard anything about that?
I don't know that I deal with that either.
I believe it was just simply they needed to make a change in sort of some things about,
it's a MasterCard on butter now.
They wanted to differentiate the new movement versus the old movement.
I think it was just sort of something, again, they're testing
maybe one of those things that just so that for the convenience so that you could look
at it and know which one of those.
Yes.
And there's a very strong feeling about which one people like, he'll either like the vertical
or they like the horizontal and there's not much in between.
Yeah.
And so there's been a couple of different models that have sort of brought technology
in and let's talk about that for a second because the new 85 series, 8,500 series, excuse
me, movement that they introduced as the coaxial movement and that particular movement introduced
the 15,000 Gauss.
And so you have magnetic resistance and it was all the electronics and things that we
have these days.
If you have an older watch, you may notice that it gets magnetized rather quickly.
It starts running fast, it may run a little bit slow.
There's all kinds of things that magnetism do.
And of course when you're running through the airports and things like that and you're
being scanned by magnets, it's all kinds of crazy things that are happening.
So these watches incorporate a lot of technology that you can wear.
Absolutely everyday.
Also they have a high shock resistance value.
And now one of the things that they came out with when they introduced the 15,000 galls
anti magnetic was this is what they see a lot of people refer to as the bumblebee hand.
To me it looks like one of those construction arm hands, right?
So, or one of those don't enter hands, you know, at a apartment complex or your your
neighborhood where it's like stop it.
So it's, it's sort of signifying that they're stopping something in my mind.
Um, magnetism rating is really hot.
I mean, you have the Rolex Milgauss lists for 10,000 and this was at 15,000.
Right.
Will make us always at the top of the list and everybody else seems to
be chasing them.
Quite interesting.
So, and we'll, of course we're going to talk about the Explorer a little bit later.
So, uh, you'll be able to give us some more information about the Explorer and interesting
how when we talk about this, you mentioned the yacht master earlier in my mind, this
sort of, this playing with all of that, you know, for a lot less price, you could obtain
a watch.
It's absolutely incredible.
Coaxial movement, a master chronometer certified.
So the plus or minus seconds are really, really low.
I mean, it's, it's super accurate.
Watch one of the other watches that's available that we have here, which is really interesting
for the 20th and I'm sorry, the 15th anniversary, um, the orange hand, this is the Rory McIlroy
golf watch.
It has the orange and now the Sergio Garcia was the first one did appear in 2015 and that
one had a green hand for the green golf series, which, you know, if you're a big golf fan,
you know that Rolex sponsors a lot of golf tournaments, but Omega does too.
So it's like, you know, they're fighting with each other too.
For the, for the top post.
It's pretty roundly understood that the Omega is handling a lot more vibration and a lot
more impact resistance than some of the other watches out there.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Did they, uh, you know, we, we tell people all the time that they really just should
not play golf wearing a nice mechanical watch that even though it seems like not a big impact
when you hit a golf ball, uh, compared to say hitting a baseball, it really is.
And uh, I've seen an interesting video of a micro camera that was inside a movement
when someone hit a golf ball and it was in his limo and I'm that movement, it looks like
the San Francisco earthquake going off in there, but I know these watches are really,
uh, impact resistant and that they've got, uh, anti shock mechanisms in them.
Is it so much that Omega would be willing to say, you can play dolphin this white?
Not only did they say it, they encourage it.
Well, yeah.
So they are absolutely confident that you can play golf in your Omega and you shouldn't
have any problems.
Wow.
Yeah, I know.
But with that coaxial movement, the, the stability of that coaxial movement is supposed to be
superior, which is why they have the coaxial movement.
Right?
So they introduced the G and T function, and this is sort of wild because both of these
watches here have that GMT function.
One of them actually has the third hand, so the hour hand it's got them the standard hour
hand men and hand, and then the GMT hand, right.
Very, very clear on the dial.
This is a chronograph and it's a dual chronograph and on this one, the sub-second style just
has a 24 hour indicator on it.
So not only do you have the hour indicator for the chronograph collection, but also the
hour indicator for the GMT function.
Kind of an interesting, no, no, no.
I'm one month.
Yeah.
But an absolutely beautiful doll.
It's got that blue green, you know, see green, I guess I'm not even sure how I would describe
that color.
Honestly.
It's kind of a teal and a green and a blue.
It's, it's wild.
There's the color changes.
It's an amazing piece.
So Omega with the Aqua Terra is new to the industry, especially for the name since 2003
it is something that you can wear absolutely every day.
The price point is amazing.
You have the court's model, the GMT model.
You have the models that you can off in, and now they have, allegedly, they're coming out
with 160,000 Goss walks that will be coming to market at some point.
It's supposed to be fancy.
They've got their various versions of this.
They've got gold, platinum, and the stainless steel or make, it really spans the gamut of
what you can buy with the, with the Aqua Terra, it's a great lodge and this resistance to
magnetism.
It's not like the IWC where you see a soft iron core that's protecting the movement,
is that the movement is made out of high tech, right.
Allies that are resistant themselves to becoming made.
Absolutely.
Yup.
So that's the Aqua Terra.
We could continue to keep going on and on because it's an amazing watch and it's beautiful.
We have them all here.
It's supposed to watch expo, see them on Swiss watch, export our column.
If you have any questions, obviously give us a call.
Okay.