Scaling New Heights, The Titoni Seascoper 300 Ice Blue DLC

Thought of one of the vital stable, well-built and completed dive watches for beneath EUR 2,000, Titoni’s Seascoper 300, the smaller brother of the Seascoper 600, was not too long ago put to a high-altitude take a look at on Swiss velocity climber Nicolas Hojac’s wrist. As a substitute of braving underwater depths, the Seascoper accompanied Hojac as he climbed all three north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in report time. The mannequin Hojac wore throughout his velocity ascents is the engaging Seascoper 300 with an ice blue dial and a matte black DLC case.

Breaking the earlier report of 25 hours, Hojac and his companion Phillip Brugger managed to climb the north faces of the three Swiss mountains in simply 15 hours and half-hour. It is smart for hard-core adventurers to equipment themselves out with rugged, sturdy companions, and respected dive watches match the invoice completely. Given the strong construct, water-resistance and legibility of dive watches, it’s not shocking that they get extra use on land as (excessive) sports activities companions than they do underwater.

Impressed by the archetypal strains of an iconic, you-can-guess-which Nineteen Fifties dive watch, the brand new 42mm Seascoper with a thickness of 12.55mm switches its traditional metal case for a extra modern matte black PVD-coated case. Like something wearing black, the impact of the matte brushed black case visually reduces the scale of the watch. As a bona fide dive watch, the sharp crown guards and screw-down crown with a particular gasket system make sure the case stays waterproof to depths of 300 metres.

Resilient to scratches and fading, the bezel insert to maintain observe of dive occasions is fabricated from high-tech black ceramic. The coin-edged unidirectional 60-click bezel has engraved silver markings and an inverted triangle and luminescent pip at midday. Endorsed by Hojac, the signature porthole caseback with bolts options the white define of the north face of the Eiger, the velocity climber’s identify and its standing as a restricted version of 200 items.

The engaging ice blue enamelled dial is impressed by Alpine glaciers and contrasts boldly with the matte black case. Legibility is one other important characteristic of any sports activities companion, and the black framed indices are large, daring and crammed with blue-emission Tremendous-LumiNova; the index at 3 o’clock has been eliminated to accommodate a date window that can be outlined in black with a white disc and black numerals. The Seascoper’s authentic, six-sided hour and minute arms are additionally crammed with lume, just like the hexagonal tip of the central seconds hand that alights on the black markings of the peripheral minutes/seconds observe. The dial is protected by a flat sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating.

Powered by a COSC chronometer-certified computerized Sellita SW200-1, the motion is fitted with an Incabloc shock absorber, beats at 28,800vph and supplies a comparatively modest energy reserve of 38-41 hours.

The one factor followers of the Seascoper will miss on this black PVD mannequin is the much-admired folding clasp with its push-button micro-adjustment discovered on the metal bracelets. This black Seascoper is fitted with a black rubber strap and a smaller black PVD-coated clasp. Restricted to 200 items, the Seascoper 300 Ice Blue DLC retails for EUR 1,800 / USD 1,950 and will be ordered at titoni.ch and chosen retail companions.