Series
The Aqua Terra is the Seamaster that is not a diver: the case has a plain sloping rim where a rotating bezel would be, the hour markers are applied wedges with luminous fill rather than dots, and the water resistance appears on the dial as a line of print instead of as a scale. The reference in this collection is the 39.2 mm steel watch with a blue dial, shown in the frames on a black textured leather strap, with the date in an aperture at three o’clock and the print beneath the hands naming the escapement and the certification. The frames cover the dial straight on, the watch at an angle, the dial close up and the case flank with its crown.
In this collection
39.2 mm blue-dial Aqua Terra on a black textured strap, with applied wedge markers, a date at three and the earlier Co-Axial Chronometer dial print. Omega catalogues this reference on a steel bracelet.
This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.
Design notes
On a diver the depth rating is a scale: numbers around a rim, turned once and read for the rest of the dive. On this watch the same information arrives as a short line of print near the centre of the dial, and there is no rim to turn. The practical difference is small if the watch never leaves land, and large if it does: a printed rating tells you what the model was built to, while a rotating scale lets you measure something while wearing it. Reading the dial carefully is the fastest way to tell which kind of Seamaster you are looking at.
Applied wedges sit above the dial surface and are cut so that their tops catch light at different angles from their sides. In a straight-on frame they can look flat; in a three-quarter frame the same markers flash along their edges. That is worth knowing before judging a dial from one picture, and it is why a page for a watch like this one needs both views: the first tells you the layout, the second tells you how the dial behaves in the light.
These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.
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