On the shores of the Baltic Sea, Raketa Watch Manufacturing unit has been creating watches for sailors, submariners, and divers for greater than half a century.
As Watches and Wonders 2025 takes place in Geneva, impartial Russian watch manfacture Raketa presents a brand new model of its dive watch, the Amphibia.
Made in-house in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, with a screw-down crown, screw-in caseback, sapphire crystals back and front, a depth score of 200 meters, and an orange colour scheme —orange stands out extra successfully at nice depths than another colour as a result of its wavelength is much less absorbed by water — this can be a look ahead to severe leisure snorkeling, free diving, and scuba diving.
With a rugged, notched rotating dive bezel (designed to be straightforward to rotate with gloves on), with a black/orange/white 0-60 depend graduated dive scale, delineated for the primary quarter-hour. The diving bezel is enhanced with luminous materials for the primary quarter-hour and in 5-minute increments for the opposite 45 minutes. Designed with a unidirectional rotation, a high-quality rotating mechanism, and an audible click on, there’s no danger of inadvertent rotation or misalignment.
A scarcity of a helium escape valve means the Amphibia isn’t designed for skilled saturation diving, although realistically, a lot of the marketplace for divers watches isn’t centered on any such diving.
Whether or not within the water or not, the excessive distinction dial, is all enterprise with nothing superfluous corresponding to a date or pointless markings or features. An outsized “O” at 12 and lengthy pill-shaped indices at 3, 6, and 9, mixed with round indices, all full of a beneficiant quantity of green-emitting luminous materials, supply glorious visibility in all situations. Luminous Sword-shaped hour and orange-tipped syringe-shaped minute arms show the time, together with a non-luminous metal arrow-tipped/lollipop counterweighted operating middle seconds hand. The absence of a luminous operating seconds hand excludes it from formally assembly ISO 6425 specs.
Delivered in a strong 316L chrome steel case, with sharp, angular edges, every flank incorporates a 45-degree machine-beveled high edge that’s been polished, offering a delicate sheen when juxtaposed towards the non-reflective matte vertical and round brushed surfaces of the case.
The Raketa Amphibia is a conservatively sized dive watch — that measures 41.6 mm x 14.9 mm (50.5 mm lug-to-lug) — appropriately (and tastefully) sized for a broad vary of wrists.
The strap is 22 mm extensive on the lugs and tapers down on the chrome steel buckle. The Amphibia features a pliable silicone strap, with built-in chrome steel finish items so it sits completely flush towards the case and that’s been thoughtfully designed with perforations (to cut back water build-up) for a comfortable and safe match towards pores and skin or wetsuits. A second black silicone strap is included and will be simply swapped with out instruments due to a quick-release system.
Driving the 3-hand time-only dive Raketa Amphibia is an computerized motion that’s completely manufactured on the Raketa watch manufacturing facility from A to Z. Every computerized winding rotor is adorned (full-color printed) with a fantastically illustrated mermaid, paying homage to basic Russian fairy tales, subtly reminding divers of the enchanting wonders that await beneath the waves.
Raketa caliber 2615 has 24 jewels, beats at 2.5Hz, has a most energy reserve of 40 hours, and is examined in 4 positions and adjusted to -10/+20 seconds per day earlier than it leaves the manufacturing facility in Saint-Petersburg.
With an in-house motion, a well-proportioned and sturdy metal case, a clutter-free no-date extremely legible dive watch dial, two quick-release straps, and the playful illustration on the rotor from Russian fairy tales that reminds each diver of his secret dream — to come across a wonderful mermaid below the ocean — Raketa has created a wearable, pragmatic, but enjoyable timepiece that’s uniquely Russian.
The Raketa Amphibia retail value is $2,375 and Raketa watches are delivered worldwide freed from cost by DHL.
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