Omega was founded in 1848 but has not, amazingly enough, produced a watch with a world-time complication in its century-and-a-half-plus history ? until now. The Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Worldtimer Master Chronometer, limited to just 87 pieces worldwide, is the crown jewel of the Swiss brand’s redesigned Aqua Terra collection and features yet another new Master Chronometer-certified in-house movement. It’s also this week’s Watch to Watch.
The Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Worldtimer is limited to just 87 pieces.
The eye-catching dial of the Aqua Terra Worldtimer consists of two levels. The first is an exterior section made of a sand-blasted platinum-gold alloy, with applied yellow-gold indices treated with Super-LumiNova and a two-row circle printed with the names of world cities in three distinct colors. Red is used only for London, representing GMT 0; black, for locations with daylight savings or summer times; and blue, for locations without daylight savings times. The GMT +1 time zone is represented by Bienne, Switzerland, the hometown of Omega. The dial’s second, interior level is a central sapphire disk, with a hand-crafted enamel world map as seen from the North Pole and an outer ring with a 24-hour indication in day and night color segments. The hands traversing the dial are also made of yellow gold and coated with Super-LumiNova; the date appears in a window at 6 o’clock. The inner dial features an enamel world map.
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