Stefan wrote:My take on the out of focus Omega is that Omega only wanted to market a watch or watches that they currently had in production. They had two special editions for the film, plus newer version of the blue AT. If they cannot offer for sale a watch seen on screen, then why show it. I was in the Omega boutique looking at NATO's and the sales lady joking said if I bought two straps she would throw in the Aqua Terra Spectre Collector's Edtion watch for free. Apparently they still have tons of this watch left. 
Talk about an epic success and fail by the marketing department with regards to the two special editions where one is sold out and the other they cannot get rid off.
Hardly. 
The Aqua Terra Limited Edition was a massive success worldwide. We sold through our allocation in December last year after SPECTRE had been out for only a few weeks (the SE300 LE sold out before the movie was even released!). There are most definitely not tons of this piece left. Clearly the Boutique you visited either can't sell a beautiful timepiece properly to it's target market or they massively over ordered for their market to begin with. If they still have black/grey NATOs in stock then they obviously have no idea about selling to Bond fans as these are rarer than hens' teeth at the moment elsewhere in the world.
OMEGA always expected to have stock of this watch to last through to mid 2016 hence the production run of 15,007. Even watches like the Bond 50th Anniversary Seamaster Pro 300 was still available to buy in 2014 nearly two years after it was released and that was limited to 10,007 pieces.
The Aqua Terra was a beautiful attempt to do something different as the previous two decades worth of Bond Limited Edition watches were just copy/paste jobs of various 300s and Planet Oceans. Plus it was far more subtle than earlier Bond Limited Editions.
It's a great looking watch which looks incredible on the blue fabric strap that it comes with alongside the bracelet.
