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Respectfully, I understand your opinion. but the Cartier Tank has a much longer pedigree and history than an Omega AT. The unfortunate situation for Cartier is that it gets bundled into the "high end fashion," category, as opposed to a "real" watch category. If you ever get a chance to look at a Cartier watch up close and personal, take the opportunity - You will change your opinion because the manufacturing quality really is that nice. I know of a few colleagues who own a Cartier watch and I originally scoffed at it, but when they took it in for service, their customer service really was THAT much better than Omega and TAG Heuer (which is iffy, by the way.) They really went above and beyond for them.

The Omega Aqua Terra has a benefit in which it has the backing of The Swatch Group, which also owns ETA. As a result, it can easily benefit from the group's access to movements and whatnot. Depending on who you ask, the Aqua Terra is a bit of an odd watch to the entire Omega line-up. It falters from an identity crisis which Omega created to fill in a market void; It's not quite a dress nor sports watch. And with the regular variations of them annually, they diminish quite quickly in value and fail to fit in a collector's vault for more than two years as they are dime a dozen.

Depending on where you are in your watch collecting phase, you either like or dislike the Cartier Tank (or anything Cartier, for that matter.) I've soft spot for the Piaget Polo, but cannot fathom to drop $10K+ on one as there are plenty of other nicer watches out there for the same kind of money.