Omega Marks Earth Day Watch Review

Omega Marks Earth Day Watch Review

Omega Marks Earth Day Watch Review

If Earth Day celebrations are inspiring you 

Towards saving the earth - while you’re itching to include a brand new watch for your collection simultaneously- Omega could have a timepiece actually inside your wheelhouse: the brand new Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra “Goodplanet,” obtainable in two versions at two sizes, and both featuring Omega’s in-house Co-Axial calibers.

Part of the sales from all of these new watches - the most recent to leave Omega’s partnership using the Goodplanet Foundation, first announced this year - goes toward funding two new wildlife projects the Foundation has built within the African nation of Botswana. (The prior Goodplanet watch, a Planet Sea model, were built with a part of its proceeds go toward preserving mangroves and seagrasses in Southeast Asia.)

Both new Aqua Terra watches have cases produced 

Omega Marks Earth Day Watch Review

From grade 5 titanium and have white-colored lacquered dials highlighted by blue elements inspired through the colour of the sea - gemstone-polished blue applied hour indices, faceted blue hands, and applied blue Omega emblem. The dials will also be notable for his or her insufficient the distinctive “teakwood” motif available on other Aqua Terra dials. Both watches seriously blue-coated nylon fabric straps with white-colored stitching and foldover clasps the 43-mm watch can also be on a elegant-and-brushed titanium bracelets (in Omega’s patented screw-and-pin style) with butterfly clasp. Both cases have nonreflective azure crystals and screw-lower crowns embossed by having an Omega symbol.

The bigger from the Aqua Terra “Goodplanet” models (below, back and front) includes a 43-mm situation (14.45 mm thick) and possesses Omega Co-Axial Caliber 8605. Additionally towards the blue hands indicating the hrs, minutes, and seconds, its dial includes a red-tipped GMT hands the wearer may use to keep an eye on again zone on the 24-hour time-zone scale, along with a date window at 6 o’clock. The movement is seen via a azure window within the caseback, that also includes the language “Goodplanet Foundation” in varnished blue type.

Another new timepiece (below, back and front) measures 38.5 mm 

Omega Marks Earth Day Watch Review

Across and 12.84 mm thick. Its simpler dial layout features nowhere hour markers and hands plus a date window at 3 o’clock. The movement, visible via a azure caseback, is Omega’s fundamental Caliber 8500. It features bidirectional automatic winding, a co-axial escapement, plastic balance spring, free-sprung balance, and extreme antimagnetic qualities, fighting off magnetic fields to in excess of 15,000 Gauss. Both calibers within the Aqua Terra Goodplanet watches have power reserves of 60 hrs. The ornamental finishes include “Arabesque” Geneva waves around the rotor and plate, rhodium plating, along with a blackened finish around the screws, barrels, and balance wheel.

The Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra “Goodplanet” watches are presented in special bamboo collectors’ boxes and, like several Omega watches, have a four-year warranty.