When it comes replica watches to the realm of ridiculous
When it comes replica watches to the realm of ridiculous
When it comes replica watches to the realm of ridiculous, ultralight sports watches, there are usually some pretty clear-cut concessions being made around actual real-world utility, as well as the ever-important, but subjective, concept of individual taste, particularly in a category where more flamboyant design tends to reign supreme. What makes the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra “Ultra Light” so compelling, though, is that in addition to housing some pretty impressive case and movement innovations that yield a strikingly light presence on the wrist, it looks almost like any ordinary Seamaster Aqua Terra. It’s a bit strange to behold on the wrist because, unlike many similar halo watches that occupied this rarified space, this all-matte Aqua Terra flies completely under the radar with an impressively wearable and highly practical execution. Because of this, it is, for all intents and purposes, the ultimate Omega sports watch. There’s only one problem: it costs $50,000.
Launched way back in 2002, the Seamaster Aqua Terra is probably Omega’s most versatile sport-lifestyle watch, and about replica watches uk as close a competitor as the Bienne-based juggernaut has to compete with the perennially ubiquitous Rolex Datejust, which more or less tends to serve a similar design intent. But where the Datejust ends in singularity — more or less as a dressier style everyday (or “GADA” – “go anywhere, do anything”) watch, the Aqua Terra, over the course of the last two decades, has come to represent a platform of pretty impressive versatility and latitude that has included everything from simple day/date workhorses in steel or precious metal and globetrotting references with GMT complications to chronographs and regatta timers, a mind-blowingly gorgeous worldtimer, and yes — even the admittedly natural choice of super-spy James Bond. The unconventional Ultra Light is, in practice, the fullest extension of the Aqua Terra’s versatility — so much so that it almost feels more like a “concept watch” than anything, despite being readily available to anyone with the cash — and the lifestyle that might go along with it.
That lifestyle in question is that of professional golfers like Sergio Garcia, Rory Sutherland, and newly minted PGA championship winner Collin Morikawa — all of whom are Omega Ambassadors. It also might be for the young pole vaulting phenom and multi-world rolex replica record holder Mondo Duplantis, another newly minted Omega wearer, who blasted into stardom this fall at an outdoor event in Rome when he cleared 6.15 meters (20 feet!) while wearing the Aqua Terra Ultra Light. And though a far cry from the usual yachting or motorsport tie-ins that we’re so used to seeing, the specific needs of these athletes helped form the basis for the watch’s design goals: a watch that was supremely lightweight, unobtrusive, and virtually unaffected by the effects of gravitational acceleration (ie: a high-speed golf swing, or a fall from 20 feet onto a landing pad).
