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Eterna KonTiki Date:
even an adventurer wants to know the date
The watchmaker is expanding the collection of KonTiki sports watches with a new model featuring a date aperture
Grenchen. Eterna is adding a second date display watch to its KonTiki collection – the KonTiki Date. With its new creation, the watchmaker is enhancing this line of classic timepieces, whose emblematic triangular indices have come to characterise Eterna over the past half-century or more. The indices and hands are coated with a luminous mate-rial for optimum legibility at all times, even under poor lighting conditions. The KonTiki Date, which is the first model to feature a date aperture positioned between 4 and 5 o’clock, will make its debut at the World Watch and Jewellery Show Baselworld (26 March to 2 April 2009). The watch will be available from summer 2009.
Technical Specifications
- Movement: Sellita calibre SW 200; self-winding mechanical movement; power reserve 38 h; 28’800 A/h; 26 jewels;
12 ½ lines; hours, minutes and seconds; date indication.
- Dial/hands: dial versions: black or off-white with embossed Raroia atoll structure; index versions: rhodanized, blued or gold-coloured bar indices and triangular indices with Arabic numerals at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock with white, black or orange luminous filling; rhodanized, blued or gold-coloured centred hour and minute with white, black or orange luminous filling; rhodanized, blued or gold-coloured centred second with circle with white, black or orange luminous filling and red tip; cambered, scratch-resistant, anti-reflective sapphire crystal
- Case/back: polished and satin-finished stainless steel case; screw-down case back with KonTiki medaillon; screw-down crown; water resistant to 200 m.
- Dimensions: diameter: 42 mm; height: 12.35 mm.
- Bracelet/clasp: polished and satin-finished stainless steel bracelet with polished and satin-finished stainless steel folding clasp, brown alligator leather strap or black leather strap with embossed textile surface and cross-stitching with polished and satin-finished stainless steel pin buckle.
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Eterna KonTiki Anniversary
The watchmaking company Eterna will be presenting a new, exclusive
limited edition of fifty models, each with an original Eterna
movement, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the company’s KonTiki
line. Already the explorer Thor Heyerdahl took a highly de-pendable
and accurate Eterna timepiece with him on his famous KonTiki expedition
across the Pacific. These extremely sturdy and water-proof watches
- a rarity in those times - developed into the Eterna KonTiki
sports watch line. The KonTiki line has since come to symbolise
the brand’s traditional identity. The new KonTiki Anniversary
design has been modelled on the first KonTiki watch manufactured
in the year 1958.
The
KonTiki Anniversary line has been equipped with a new automatic
Eterna 3010 movement with a fast-change date. Along with centrally
positioned hour, minute, and second hands, the date can be read
in a date window on the dial. The movement is a variation on the
Eterna 3030 calibre movement, continuing the same slim line.
Modelled
on the original KonTiki sports watch line, the watch dial depicts
silhouettes of the Raroia Atoll - the successfully reached, but
unintended destination of the KonTiki expedition. The gold-plated
triangular index marks filled out with a luminous coating on the
domed dial pay homage to the original. Along with the highly characteristic
triangular index marks, the hands - also gold-plated and filled
out with a luminous coating - contrast against the black dial,
ensuring easy readability at all times.
To
mark the anniversary, Eterna has opted for polished and satin-finished
red gold in-stead of stainless steel as usually used for watch
cases in the KonTiki line, a decision to emphasise the exclusivity
of this timepiece. Paying homage to the watch design fashions
of the fifties, the watch’s forty-millimetre diameter is slightly
smaller than the other models in the current KonTiki line. Like
the original, the timepiece has a screw-in back sporting a KonTiki
medallion. The engraving depicts the KonTiki raft in reminiscence
of Thor Heyerdahl’s famous expedition. Apart from that, the timepiece
is water-resistant at up to two hundred metres.
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