By TEEEMPUS · Published
The stripes are what make an Aqua Terra. The blue dial is sun-brushed and lined horizontally, in what Omega calls a "teak" pattern, with faceted batons, an arrow-tipped minute hand, a date at 6 and the minutes numbered every five around the edge. The one this guide is about is the 41 mm Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M in blue, reference 220.10.41.21.03.007: a steel case with a smooth polished bezel, a steel bracelet, and Omega's calibre 8900 inside, certified by METAS as a Master Chronometer. Omega's US site lists it at $7,400.
Two homage brands copy that dial, stripes and all, for $139 and $148. We went through watches like the Omega Aqua Terra on sale in the US today and kept six, up to $3,350. Three have the striped dial: the two homages and the Formex. The TAG Heuer has a lined dial too, under a dive watch's bezel. The Tissot and the Longines skip the stripes and get the rest: the smooth polished bezel, the batons and a bracelet with polished centre links.
Each pick comes with what it gets wrong. Prices are regular US list prices from the brands' own US sites, not sale prices, checked on 9 November 2026. The TAG Heuer's is the exception: its US page wouldn't load for us, so its price comes from a copy archived in May 2026, as its section says. The photos are to scale, so if a watch looks smaller here, it is. Two of the six are marked as homages, the watch world's word for a watch that follows a famous design on purpose, under its own name. Where we couldn't confirm that Amazon lists the exact watch, its Amazon button runs a search instead.
This is the watch every pick is measured against, the Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M 41 mm in blue, reference 220.10.41.21.03.007:
Nothing below has all of it. Only the Formex, the Longines and the TAG Heuer put the date at 6; the Pagani and the Tissot have it at 3, and the Watchdives has none. Only the Longines matches the Omega's 41 mm, and the rest are 38 to 40 mm. The Watchdives is the only one that runs on quartz. Only the TAG Heuer, at 200 metres, is rated deeper than the Omega; the other five stop at 100.
| Watch | US list price | Case | Dial | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watchdives WD0006 (homage) | $139 | 38 mm | Dark blue, teak-style stripes, no date | Quartz (VH31) |
| Pagani Design PD-1688 (homage) | $148 | 40 mm | Blue, teak-style stripes, date at 3 | Automatic, 42 h |
| Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80 Silicium | $950 | 40 mm | Blue sunray, date at 3 | Automatic, 80 h |
| Formex Essence ThirtyNine | $1,980 | 39 mm | Blue, horizontal grooves, date at 6 | Automatic, 65 h, COSC |
| Longines Conquest 41 | $2,400 | 41 mm | Blue sunray, date at 6 | Automatic, 72 h |
| TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 | $3,350 | 40 mm | Blue gradient, horizontal lines, date at 6 | Automatic, 38 h |
| Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 41, for comparison | $7,400 | 41 mm | Blue, teak stripes, date at 6 | Automatic, 60 h |
This is the cheapest way to get the Aqua Terra's stripes, and the dial is a close copy. It's dark blue with horizontal stripes, applied batons, an arrow-tipped minute hand and the minutes numbered every five around the edge, inside a smooth polished bezel, on a three-link steel bracelet. The 316L steel case is brushed and polished, with a screw-down crown and caseback, under a domed sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating, and it's water resistant to 100 metres. Choose Dark Blue on Watchdives' page.
What you give up is the movement and the date. Inside is Seiko's VH31, a quartz movement with a sweeping seconds hand, and Watchdives doesn't publish the battery life. There's no date, where the Omega has one at 6, and "100m=330ft" is printed on the dial. The case is 38 mm across, 3 mm narrower than the Omega's, 10.7 mm thick and 45 mm from lug to lug. It lists at $139, about a fifty-fifth of the Omega's price, and Watchdives' store had it on sale for $109 when we checked on 9 November 2026.
If you want the Aqua Terra's face at nearly its size, with an automatic movement, start here. Pagani copies the blue dial with horizontal stripes, the applied faceted batons, the arrow-tipped minute hand and the minutes printed every five around the edge, and sets them in a 40 mm case of 316L steel with a smooth polished bezel, a millimetre narrower than the Omega's. Inside is a Miyota 8215 automatic, under a sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating, and the crown screws down. Order the variant Pagani calls Blue / Oyster, which comes on a three-link steel bracelet.
What you give up starts with the date, which sits at 3 instead of 6. The dial also carries Pagani's logo and name and its water rating. The Miyota runs for 42 hours against the Omega's 60, the case is 12 mm thick, and it's water resistant to 100 metres against 150. Pagani doesn't publish the lug-to-lug length. It lists at $148, a fiftieth of the Omega's price, and Pagani's US store had it on sale for $125 when we checked on 9 November 2026.
This one borrows the Aqua Terra's outline rather than its dial, and of the six it looks least like the Omega face-on. Tissot sets a blue sunray dial with applied batons inside a smooth polished bezel, on a 40 mm case of 316L steel and a steel bracelet with polished centre links. Inside is Tissot's Powermatic 80 automatic, with a silicon balance spring and 80 hours of power reserve, longer than the Omega's 60, and you can see it through the caseback. It's water resistant to 100 metres. Pick it if you want a Swiss automatic for under $1,000 and can do without the stripes.
You give up the dial that makes an Aqua Terra. There are no stripes, no numbers around the edge and no arrow on the minute hand, and the date sits at 3. The crystal is sapphire, with an anti-reflective coating on its underside only. The case is a millimetre narrower than the Omega's and 11.50 mm thick, and Tissot doesn't publish the lug-to-lug length. It costs $950, about an eighth of the Omega's price.
This is the best-built watch here, and it has the stripes. The blue dial has a vertical brushed finish with horizontal grooves, which Formex machines one line at a time, and it carries faceted hands, applied indices and a date at 6 in a bevelled window, where the Omega has its date. Inside is a Swiss Sellita SW200-2 Power+ automatic, certified by COSC, with 65 hours of power reserve; of the six, it's the only one sold as a certified chronometer, as the Omega is. The steel case is 39 mm across, 10 mm thick and 45.5 mm from lug to lug, with sapphire crystals front and back and a screw-down crown, on a steel bracelet.
What you give up is the Omega's case. Formex's is angular, with four exposed screws, and its bezel is broad and brushed, with a polished bevel, where the Omega's is smooth and polished. There are no numbers around the dial's edge. It's 2 mm narrower than the Omega and water resistant to 100 metres against 150. Formex's US price is $1,980, about a quarter of the Omega's price, and its page says that includes taxes, duties and shipping. When we checked on 9 November 2026, Formex was taking pre-orders, with new orders due to ship in late November; Long Island Watch, a US dealer, listed it at $1,980 and available.
Pick the Longines if you want the Aqua Terra's size and layout and can live without the stripes. It's 41 mm across, the Omega's width, with a smooth polished bezel and a sunray blue dial with applied batons and a frameless date window at 6, on a steel bracelet with polished centre links. Inside is Longines' automatic calibre L888.5, with a silicon balance spring and up to 72 hours of power reserve, more than the Omega's 60. The case is 10.90 mm thick and 49.10 mm from lug to lug, the crown screws in, and the sapphire crystal has anti-reflective coating on both sides.
You give up the teak pattern. The dial is a plain sunray, with no numbers around its edge and a light blue seconds hand, and in the photos a lighter blue ring runs around its outside. It's water resistant to 100 metres against the Omega's 150. It costs $2,400, about a third of the Omega's price.
If you'd like the Aqua Terra's lined blue dial with a dive watch's bezel, this is the one. TAG Heuer's blue dial is a gradient with a horizontal pattern, applied batons and a date at 6, as the Omega has, on a three-link steel bracelet. The 40 mm steel case is fine-brushed and polished, 11.54 mm thick and water resistant to 200 metres, more than the Omega's 150. Inside is TAG Heuer's Calibre 5 automatic. TAG Heuer's page doesn't list the crystal, and Watches of Switzerland gives it as sapphire.
What you give up is the smooth bezel. TAG Heuer's turns, has twelve sides and carries engraved numerals, so across a room it reads as a dive watch rather than an Aqua Terra. Calibre 5 runs for 38 hours against the Omega's 60, and TAG Heuer doesn't publish the lug-to-lug length. TAG Heuer's US site listed it at $3,350, about half of the Omega's price, in a copy of the page archived on 20 May 2026; the live page wouldn't load for us. Watches of Switzerland's US store showed a regular price of $3,350 on 9 November 2026, with a sign-up to hear when it's back instead of a buy button.
