![]() These mass produced vintaged pieces are not rare and come up every single day on the internet. Can i justify $2,000 for a Nivada Grenchen, no I can't, and will not. I really like this watch and would love to add it to my very small collection but what i struggle with is the crazy bubble we find ourselves in today. I'm aware that many NG are running various movements Valjoux 72, Valjoux 92 or Valjoux 23 but most are not sold with this in mind. This could put you at over $4000 to $5,000. Prices says nothing of it's condition, i seen non serviced watches that need total restoration. Let's fast forward a year later this watch price range $1500 to $3000 and up. ![]() I could not bite the bullet, besides could purchase it anytime. So because my love affair with this watch had not fully blossomed. About a little over a year ago this watch could be had for $800 to $1000. I know I'm not alone and there are many others who feel the same emotions about this piece. What I have for this watch borders on love, but not quite There is something cool about this watch and it's vintage appeal. I love those vintage arrow hands and the classic bezel. Both will be available for pre-order in mid-July, with deliveries expected in December 2020.So let me say i really like the Nivada Grenchen Chronograph Aviator chronomaster sea diver. Prices, €1600 to €2,000 depending on date guichet and strap options. Movement, SW510 BH B (automatic) or SW510 M BH B (manual) running at 28,800 vph, 48-hour power reserve. 39mm rotating 12 hour/60 minute bidirectional bezel inner tachymetric scale. The Nivada Grenchen Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver: cases, 316L stainless steel, 38mm x 14.25 or 16.25 for manual or automatic models respectively. Prices, €650-850 depending on bracelet or strap options. Movement, SW200, running at 28,800 vph in 26 jewels stop seconds, 38-hour power reserve. Sapphire crystal, 100 meters' water resistance. The Nivada Grenchen Antarctic: cases, 316L stainless steel, 38mm x 11.50mm and 45mm lug to lug solid caseback with applied medallion with cool engraving which will make you feel like heroic explorer. There is a 60-minute/12-hour rotating bezel, an inner tachymetric scale, and the red yacht-timer countdown segment on the chronograph minutes totalizer which was something of a visual signature for the original model. After all, we must recall that its design hails from a time when digital displays were in the future, and being able to decipher an analog gauge at a glance was a necessary survival skill. For something that tried (and tries) to cram all the bells and whistles of a classic two-register chronograph into a watch along with a 100-meter depth rating (the only thing that keeps it from fulfilling the technical requirements for a dive watch is the bezel, which is bidirectional) the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver manages to come across, if not as an example of Bauhaus-esque self-restraint, then at least as a technical timepiece which does its level best to deliver a lot of analog information in a coherent fashion. The Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver was and is something of a watch that tries to be all things to all people, but succeeds at it perhaps better than most. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, which marked the beginning of the establishment of a permanent human presence in Antarctica (as well as the beginning, unsurprisingly, of an ad campaign from Nivada touting its presence on the expeditions). The original Antarctic watch went to the South Pole as part of the U.S. ![]() These are the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver, which can be had in either a hand-wound or automatic model, and the Antarctic, which was originally developed in conjunction with the International Geophysical Year (the same "year of exploration" for which the Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic was made) in 1958. In partnership with Remi Chabrat, the owner of a private label Swiss watch firm known as the Montrichard Group, plans were made to re-launch Nivada with watches based on two vintage models. 1985, and most recently back in 2018 when he launched a couple of very attractive automatic chronographs with Seiko movements. The genius loci in Switzerland for the brand is none other than Guillaume Laidet, whom we last encountered here at HODINKEE as the founder of the eponymous brand William L.
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