Case #724 — Omega Seamaster Professional Aqua Terra 41.5 MM Ref. 220.10.41.21.03.002

Case #724 — Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M Co-Axial Master Chronometer 41 mm "Blue Teak"

Ref. 220.10.41.21.03.002

Status: Available

Condition: Excellent Pre-Owned

Scope: Box, Papers, and Cards

Year: 2024

🔎 Case Notes

Some watches announce themselves. The Aqua Terra makes its case quietly, and then keeps making it every day for years. The blue dial is sun-brushed and distinguished by a horizontal "teak" pattern inspired by the wooden decks of luxury sailboats — a texture that shifts from near-black navy in shadow to a bright, electric blue in daylight, and the single most persuasive argument for seeing this reference in person rather than in photographs.

Beneath that dial sits the real substance of the watch. The Omega Calibre 8900 delivers Master Chronometer performance certified by METAS, resists magnetic fields up to 15,000 gauss, and uses twin barrels and a Co-Axial escapement for a 60-hour power reserve. This is not a dress watch with a sports-watch veneer; it is a genuinely over-engineered everyday movement housed in a 41 mm steel case that behaves itself under a shirt cuff.

This particular example is a 2024 watch presented in Excellent Pre-Owned condition, with no specific flaws recorded during our physical inspection. It arrives complete as Box, Papers, and Cards, and the bracelet is currently sized for an approximately 7½-inch wrist. Given the 2024 date, it should still fall within Omega's five-year factory warranty period — subject to the exact activation date recorded on the warranty card and to Omega's warranty terms.

🕰️ The Evidence

• Reference: 220.10.41.21.03.002
• Model / Collection: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M Co-Axial Master Chronometer 41 mm
• Year: 2024
• Case: Stainless steel, symmetrical case with polished and brushed finishing
• Case Diameter: 41 mm
• Thickness: 13.2 mm
• Lug-to-Lug: Approximately 47.9 mm
• Lug Width: 20 mm
• Dial: Blue, sun-brushed, horizontal "Teak Concept" pattern; rhodium-plated hands and indexes with white Super-LumiNova; date window at 6 o'clock
• Crystal: Domed scratch-resistant sapphire with anti-reflective treatment on both sides
• Bezel: Fixed, polished stainless steel
• Crown: Screw-in
• Caseback: Transparent sapphire with wave-edged design
• Movement: Omega Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8900, self-winding
• Movement Type: Automatic, bidirectional winding, twin barrels mounted in series, free-sprung balance with silicon balance spring
• Certification: Master Chronometer, certified by METAS; resistant to magnetic fields reaching 15,000 gauss
• Power Reserve: 60 hours
• Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date; independent hour-hand time-zone adjustment
• Water Resistance: 15 bar (150 metres / 500 feet)
• Bracelet: Stainless steel, polished and brushed links
• Clasp: Stainless steel folding clasp
• Bracelet Fit: Approximately 7½-inch wrist
• Condition: Excellent Pre-Owned — no specific flaws recorded at inspection
• Factory Warranty: 2024 watch; understood to remain within Omega's five-year factory warranty period, subject to the exact warranty-card activation date and Omega warranty terms
• Included: Box, Papers, and Cards

🌟 Collector Provenance

The Aqua Terra line occupies a specific and deliberate position within the Seamaster family. The original Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra was introduced in 2002 as a successor to the earlier Seamaster 120 — a more elegant, less sporty interpretation of Omega's dive watches. Where the Diver 300M is unapologetically a tool, the Aqua Terra was conceived as the Seamaster you wear when you are not diving: enough water resistance to be unbothered, none of the visual hardware.

This generation — launched in 2017 and carrying the 220.10.41.21 reference family — is the one most collectors now treat as the definitive modern Aqua Terra. It brought the horizontal teak dial pattern (replacing the earlier vertical teak), moved the date to a symmetrical position at 6 o'clock, and standardised the Master Chronometer calibres across the line. The 41 mm model's symmetrical case is crafted from stainless steel, with a wave-edged design featured on the back. Those small revisions resolved most of the criticisms levelled at the preceding generation, and the result has aged unusually well.

The Calibre 8900 itself is worth dwelling on. The METAS Master Chronometer protocol tests the complete, cased watch — not just the bare movement — across magnetic exposure, timekeeping in multiple positions, power reserve and water resistance. Combined with the silicon balance spring and twin barrels, it produces a movement that is genuinely indifferent to the magnetic fields a modern life throws at it. For a collector, the 8900 era represents the point at which Omega's industrial anti-magnetic programme stopped being a specialist exercise and became the house standard.

Worth noting for the record: this reference has since been succeeded in Omega's current catalogue, which places a well-kept 2024 example in a quietly interesting position — recent enough to be a current-generation watch in every practical sense, but no longer the one sitting in the retail display case.

🌟 Design Provenance

The teak dial is the signature, and it is more than decoration. The pattern references the planked decking of a sailing yacht, and because the grooves run horizontally across the dial rather than radiating outward, they catch light in long, continuous bands. Tilt the watch and the dial reads as a dark, formal navy; square it to a window and it opens up into a saturated blue with visible structure. Few dials at this level do as much work with so little ornamentation.

The case follows the same logic. The lugs are symmetrical and relatively short for a 41 mm watch, the bezel is polished smooth with no clutter, and the finishing alternates between brushed surfaces and polished chamfers so the watch catches light without appearing ostentatious. The stainless steel bracelet alternates polished and brushed links, carrying the case's treatment through to the clasp.

Turn it over and Omega makes its one overt gesture: a transparent sapphire caseback framed by a wave-edged ring, displaying the rhodium-plated 8900 with its arabesque Geneva waves. It is the dress-watch courtesy applied to a 150-metre sports watch, and it is entirely in keeping with what the Aqua Terra has always tried to be.

🧾 From the Case File

In practical terms, this is one of the most straightforwardly wearable mechanical watches Omega makes. At 41 mm wide with roughly 47.9 mm lug-to-lug and short, downturned lugs, it sits well across a broad range of wrist sizes, and the 13.2 mm height is largely a consequence of the domed crystal rather than a slab-sided case. The bracelet is currently sized for an approximately 7½-inch wrist.

The 150-metre rating and screw-in crown mean the watch requires no particular care — swimming, rain, a sink full of dishes are all non-events. The 60-hour power reserve means it survives being left off from Friday evening to Monday morning and still shows the correct time. And the independent hour-hand adjustment is one of those complications you only appreciate after using it: on landing, pull the crown to the first position, click the hour hand to local time in one-hour jumps, and the running seconds never stop. The date follows the hour hand in both directions.

For the buyer deciding between this and a new-from-retail example, the arguments here are condition, completeness and timing. This is an Excellent Pre-Owned 2024 watch with no specific flaws recorded at inspection, supplied with its box, papers and cards, and understood to still have factory warranty coverage remaining — subject to the card's activation date and Omega's terms. That combination is the sensible way into this reference.

🗝️ BST Verdict

A current-generation Aqua Terra in the configuration most people picture when they picture one: steel case, blue teak dial, matching steel bracelet, and the METAS-certified Calibre 8900 doing the serious work out of sight. It is the rare modern watch that is genuinely appropriate everywhere, without feeling like a compromise anywhere.

Excellent Pre-Owned, dated 2024, complete with Box, Papers, and Cards, and sized for an approximately 7½-inch wrist. A clean, well-documented example of a reference that rewards daily wear rather than careful storage.

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