Seamaster Aqua Terra Ryder Cup Timepiece
ADEDOYIN JOHNSON
Omega has released the new Seamaster watch ahead of the Ryder Cup Golf tournament set to take place in Paris, France at the end of September. The Ryder Cup is a biennial men’s golf tournament.
Priced at $5,950, the new watch was first unveiled by Omega’s president, Raynald Aeschlimann, the at the 100th PGA Championship, Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis. Omega is the official timekeeper of the Ryder Cup every time it is played in America, and now in Europe.
The 41 mm Ryder Cup watch features a stainless-steel case and a silvery opaline dial with horizontal stripes and a date window at six o’clock. The hour and minute hands and indexes are blued with white Super-LumiNova, while the Omega logo and central seconds hand come in 18-karat gold. Small touches of red can be found on the quarter numbers of the minute track and the Seamaster script on the dial. Inside, the Calibre 8900 powers the timepiece and is visible through the caseback, which is coated with a Ryder Cup logo in 24-karat gold.
Seamaster Aqua Terra Ryder Cup caseback
First introduced in 2015 in the Omega Globemaster, this calibre was the first of Omega’s movements to receive the new master chronometer certification from METAS (the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology). The watch comes on a blue rubber strap held in place by 18-karat-gold links and comes with an additional stainless-steel bracelet, a changing tool, and a customised Ryder Cup pouch.
In the 2016 edition of the Ryder Cup timepiece, Omega included nearly all the same design touches save for the very different dial treatments and different calibres.
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