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Crepas just announced the CREPAS L'ocean 1200m which will be a limited edition piece fully inspired by a vintage dive watch that I'm fully unfamiliar with myself...the apparently ultra rare and exotic Z.R.C 300m from the late 1960's.-----(any of you WIS here familiar with this vintage Z.R.C?) Crepas will only build as many pieces as it gets reservations for between now and January 15th 2014.
OceanicTime did a nice intro to this one today, so head over there for the details, but I thought I'd post it up to get some discussion going.
Here is the inspiration:(Z.R.C vintage ad pic borrowed from the OceanicTime writeup)
And it will be available in Blue or Black:
It's got a great vintage vibe overall IMO, that carries over to the way the crown at 6 works with that cool vintage style bracelet.
Crepas is clearly offering a piece with strong vintage inspiration, at a more modern (larger) size, built with modern/durable materials and manufacturing techniques.
I'm not fully sold on it to the point of saying, "I'm in", but I'm thinking about whether or not I want to do a reservation for this one.
What do you guys think?
Here are the specs:
- Bezel diameter: 42,00mm
- Case width: 42,50mm
- Thickness: 14,50mm
- Length: 49,00mm
- Glass thickness: 3,80mm
- Glass diameter: 32,00mm
- Width between lugs: 24,00mm
- Crown diameter: 8,00mm
- Bezel thickness: 3,15mm
- Case back cover thickness: 3,00mm
- Mid case, bezel, crown, caseback cover in 316L steel brushed and polished.
- Glass and bezel insert made of sapphire.
- I-ring and O-rings gaskets made of Tefzel and Viton.
- Custom steel bracelet with deployant clasp with inner extension system.
- SuperLuminova C3 on dial, hands and bezel.
- Swiss automatic mechanical ETA 2824-2.
- 120 atm waterproof/1200 meters. Crown and case back cover screwed.
- Anti-magnetic: 4800A/m
- Anti reflective coated on inner side sapphire crystal.
- 120 positions bezel with insert with 60 divisions to estimate the diving time.
- Brushed dial.
- Ergonomic design for maximum comfort.
- Automatic helium valve for saturation diving.
- Clasp with security pushers and extensible function for wet suit
- Crown placed at 6 hour position for a comfortable diving.
- Screwed bars.
- High brightness of phosphorescent elements for readability in the dark.
- Numbered limited edition.
- Delivered in a custom waterproof suitcase (IP67).
- Rubber and nylon straps pending to design.
- Cleaning cloth, screwdrivers, extra bars, warranty card and booklet.