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White Gold Aqua Terra 150m 231.50.43.22.01.001
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Spqr
·EDIT: just (belatedly) realized that this was my 500th post. Cheers!
I've waited a month to review this watch and have worn it just about every single day since taking delivery. I always want to be sure I'm past the "honeymoon" phase before offering an opinion.
Let me first credit the sources for my pictures. I'm a pretty serious (even nationally published) photography hobbyist, but my specialty is wildlife. For some reason, when it comes to photographing watches, I suck. I can never nail the focus and the lighting. So the pictures you'll see below come from Omega's own site (and you can also get more data on this reference there too) and from OCWatchGuy: with the latter, you're seeing my exact watch, as that is who I purchased it from. This review is also, tacitly, an endorsement of Nick & Patrick---buy and sell with confidence.
Some Physical Stats:
Case Diameter: 43mm
Case Thickness: 14.6mm
Lug to Lug: 51mm
Lug Width: 21mm
Weight: 270g fully linked
The Movement:
Omega Co-Axial 8611, Automatic with an 18k rose gold rotor and bridge and fine finishing
Complications: Annual calendar (month and date)
Beat-Rate: 7 beats per second; 3.5Hz; 25,200 beats per hour
Power Reserve: 55 hours (I have not field-tested this)
Anti-Magnetism: Silicone balance spring; no gauss-rating provided; this is not a Master Chrono
Additional Objective Notes:
Depth Rating: 150m/500ft; screw-down crown
Limited Edition: 61 pieces; the watch can still be purchased direct from Omega's site even though it's a few years old now
MSRP: $41,900 US
Dial Description: Black "teak boat deck" pattern, vertically oriented; triangular luminescent hour markers with rose gold surrounds; matching rose gold lumed hands; lume glows bright blue-green; rose-gold-frame month/date windows display white font with black background matching the dial. Applied rose gold Omega logo and name; rest of the dial text is white printing, including the outboard arabic track. Sapphire crystal is slightly domed and anti-reflective on both sides.
Caseback Description: Transparent sapphire caseback displays the movement; LE number is included on the margin of the window.
Bracelet Description: White gold "oyster style" 3-link design, fully brushed except for polished flanks, concealed butterfly twin-trigger clasp consistent with the rest of the Aqua Terra line; tapers from 21mm at the lugs to 18mm at the clasp. Modern etched Omega logo on the clasp.
And now the photo-dump before I offer my subjective review.
I used to own the stainless steel version of this watch but got rid of it after only a couple of months. My main issue with the watch was that it is a 43mm watch but it uses the handset from the 38.5mm version of the Aqua Terra (also llike the 41.5mm time and date version as all these original CAl.85xx and 86xx Aqua Terras had the same 38.5mm handsets with the exception of the 41.5mm Blue dial and the Bumbebee) so that the minute and seconds hands get nowhere near the minute/seconds chaper ring on the dial and the hour hand is far too short. Once Omega brought out the revised version without the "coffin" around the month and date window they corrected this issue and used the correct sized hand set as well as introducing a blue dial version. The GMT Aqua Terra had the same issue but worse in that the 43mm watch used the same 38.5mm handset and also a short GMT hand almost exactly the same length as the minute hand. It was impossible to tell the time at a glance in low light or the dark. I got rid of that watch even quicker than the ATAC. Omega did not correct the handset on the GMT version until the very limited run Good Planet MAster Co-axial titanium version and then only on that watch.
