![]() ![]() Water resistant to 300 meters, the watch is paired with a dark brown handmade and hand finished calf leather strap with a bronze buckle subdued to a special anti-corrosion treatment. A Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating protects the watch dial which is composed of three superimposed layers with the upper one in black with luminous beige hands and markers plus an additional counter for the 24 hours of the day and the date placed on the opposite side.Įach Sommerso dive watch houses a Swiss automatic mechanical movement, personalized to U-BOAT specifications featuring date, hours, minutes, seconds plus the 24 hours indicator. On its left side is the characteristic U-BOAT crown with a patented protective device. Necessary for every pro-dive watch, it features a rotating unidirectional bezel with calibrated markers every five minutes interspersed with numbers every ten minutes from 10 to 50. The natural oxidation of the material of the 46mm case creates a naturally aged look, often a unique one, extremely desirable by its wearer. This new creation is a nod to antique diving equipment worn by the earliest nautical divers. Highly resistant to seawater and to corrosion, harder than stainless steel and iron combined, often used in the arms industries, creating a patina, unique to each timepiece, evolving in different colors these are just few of the characteristics intriguing Italo since ever. Italo Fontana’s passion for diving gathered in this watch, designed to withstand the rigorous demands of professional diving in the first place, done the rest providing Sommerso with all the benefits coming from this metal inherently tied to maritime settings. It had been widely used in the maritime construction before the introduction of modern alloys. The new bronze version of U-BOAT’s professional dive watch, Sommerso, reflects the brand founder’s passion for diving as well as his enduring fervor for the ancient metal alloy.īronze is the first metal alloy that humankind learned to manipulate.
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