Liao learned the hard way what link cleaning fish every day can do to chrono pushers; when his Speedmaster became compromised, it took $800 to get it back in shape. He didn't want link to go through that service process again. He needed something more practical, something that could stand up to the work. He landed on the Seamaster Aqua Terra because it thematically fit with his budding engineering-focused link collection. Plus, the ocean ties just made sense.