Aqua Terra

S Stavington

Hi all,

I'm considering selling my 3861 Speedy and purchasing an Aqua Terra instead. My question is more about the bracelet and the fact that the AT is a 'modern watch in the sense that it's likely to change in the next release/ model offered (unlike minimal changes to Speedmaster which do not affect the overall appearance

1) How often does Omega release a new AT (the last one was 2018 if not mistaken).

2) Main question - how likely is it that the new one will come with micro adjustment and how important is it?

I have the micro adjustment on my speedy but TBH I haven't used it much. Having said that, it seems like it became a must for new luxury watch brands like Omega. To compare other butterfly clasps it seems that AP RO doesn't have a micro adjustment and VC Overseas and PP Nautilus do.

Annapolis

No one here knows or can make more than a semieducated guess.

For my part, I’d be surprised. Has Omega ever managed a concealed-clasp-style bracelet with microadjust? The clasp style on the AT is part of its signature design language and I can’t imagine them changing that under any circumstance. So it would need to be a concealed clasp with microadjust. To pull that off would require a total redesign of the clasp—you mention the Overseas, for example: that’s a huge feat of engineering, that VC clasp. Not saying Omega couldn’t make something similar, but it would mean a lot of r&d toward a model that isn’t a flagship. They seem more invested in the speedies and divers; with the AT, sure there have been movement updates, but for the most part changes have come in the form of new dial variants and a few different case sizes.

I’d be excited to have a new kind of concealed clasp bracelet—but for what it’s worth, I wouldn’t want such a change to come at the expense of thinness. At the moment, for my money, the current AT bracelet/clasp design is just about the best available from any mass-producing brand. The Rolex oyster with the concealed clasp (such as that formerly made for Day-Dates) and the one on the previous generation IWC Ingenieur might be the only ones I’d see at real competition. (I’m not a fan of massive dive clasps.) If they added micro to the AT but had to make the clasp side significantly thicker to accommodate, I’d see that as a loss.

S Stavington

They already have with the lady’s consetallation if I’m not mistaken.

Annapolis

Fair point! I could be mistaken, but that’s a very different beast: a delicate, non-sports-style bracelet with a sliding clasp piece. If they switched the AT to that flimsy design, I’d never buy another one.