Favre-Leuba creates timepieces with the goal of conquering the extremes of nature – to scale the world’s highest peaks and dive to the ocean’s depths. Favre-Leuba’s Bathy, when it was introduced in 1968, was one of the first wristwatch with a membrane and a central hand that made it possible to measure depth more accurately. The Raider Bathy 120 MemoDepth celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Bathy, with a modernized depth gauge. A special membrane integrated into the caseback allows water to enter a chamber that measures pressure to calculate depth up to 120 metres – twice the depth measured by the original Bathy. Depth, is relayed via a blue central hand on the dial. The Bathy, which is water resistant to 200 metres, also has a depth memory that stores the maximum depth (up to 120 m) reached during a single dive. The hermetical separation of the depth membrane from the movement ensures the watch is always protected.
SPECIFICATIONS
CASE
Titanium with unidirectional rotating bezel with anodized aluminium insert, 48 mm diameter, thickness 19 mm, screw-in crown, sapphire crystal with anti-reflection coating on both sides. Water-resistant to 200 metres (20 bar/660 ft)
DIAL
Black with blue dive sector marking, red indication for decompression stops, applied luminous indexes and hands, blue hand for depth
MOVEMENT
Mechanical hand-wound, FL321 calibre, with specially designed mechanisms for depth gauge, 65-hour power reserve
FUNCTIONS
Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, 120-metre depth gauge, power reserve indicator
BRACELET/STRAP
Rubber with pin buckle