Aqua terra worldtimer1/21/2024 ![]() ![]() Zones with Daylight Savings Time are rendered in light blue, and those without DST are in tonal gold - another neat touch. Yes, there are actually 37 time zones in the world, if you want to get really technical, with a few involving a 30- or 45-minute offset, but I appreciate the fact that Omega keeps things relatively traditional here. Around the outer perimeter of the dial, we have 24 of the world’s time zones, as defined by those with a single-hour offset. The rest of the eggshell-white dial is rendered in somewhat traditional worldtimer manner: You have the sharply beveled applied hour markers, a deep, tonneau-shaped date aperture at 6 o’clock, and subtle longitudinal striping, which looks a bit like the vertical “teak-deck” style dials from the 8500-series generation of Aqua Terra watches. Either way, it’s enough to get a cartographer hot under the collar - and I mean that in the best possible way. Last time Omega got it done by hand in two-dimensional enamel, and this time it was 3-D painted with lasers. The visually striking end result uses super-modern manufacturing methods to achieve the time-honored tradition of putting a map in the center of a worldtimer’s dial. But what really surprised me about seeing this dial in the flesh is just how much depth and dimensionality it hides - not unlike the textured rotating globe that you might remember from geography class. Essentially, the dial center’s grade 5 titanium surface is zapped with a laser at varying levels of intensity, creating chemical reactions that yield an equal variety of intense texture and colors, meant to evoke the planet’s seas and landmasses, encircled by a glass 24-hour ring. ![]() It’s how Omega has rendered the gnomonic projection of the earth at the center of the dial in such staggering detail. What I didn’t know is that Omega had not just shown him the blue-dialed Worldtimer in steel ( whose announcement we covered here), but also an equally gorgeous Sedna gold variant with a stark white dial that complements the laser-ablated map relief in the center perfectly. It’s seriously gorgeous,” he added breathlessly, as though adjectives failed him in that particular moment.
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