The Best Of Both Worlds | The Baltic Aquascaphe Diver

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The world of microbrand watches has taken some interesting twists and turns in its lifetime. Some of the original brands that would have been regarded as micro, grew both in size and popularity. Other brands are dedicated in creating only certain types of watches such as chunky divers with an emphasis on providing a solid value proposition. We’ve started to see a lot of microbrand developments over the past few years with a new focus and understanding of stylish, universally attractive and more mainstream aesthetics. One of the most popular of these newer brands is Baltic Watches.

The brand began through the notes and journaling of a father who over his years developed a passion for collecting watches. The father’s son (the founder of Baltic Watches) harnessed both his father’s and his own obsession to create a brand that takes inspiration from the watches his father collected over the years.

n 2017 Baltic began their journey with two models that captured that romanticised aspect of 1940s design through the HMS 001 and the BiCompax 001. What started as just an idea on Kickstarter evolved into becoming one of the leading microbrands for modern watches created and designed with vintage fully on the mind.

The Baltic Aquascaphe Blue Gilt

Since their first two models, Baltic has only released one more watch, the Aquascaphe. If vintage watches are your thing, you’ll be quite familiar with the style of this piece as it has that ‘skin diver’ feel to it. Back in the day these skin divers were more casual diving watch options for the general public that embraced elegance as a viable feature of the watch. If Doxa or Panerai are the Ferrari FXX-K of diving watches, skin divers are more closely aligned to a Ferrari Portofino, still enjoyable, nimble and has a prancing horse on the bonnet, but you get air conditioning, a sat nav and comfortable seats.

As you can probably tell by now, the Aquascaphe takes its inspiration from and sits at the table where elegant skin divers from the past sit. With a case at 38mm wide, a lug to lug of 47mm and a thickness of 12mm an appropriate balance has been met between the original skin divers proportions and modern day expectations. In fact if we count the bezel, the watch comes in at 39mm wide.

The fully brushed case is relatively simple in its design, however the lugs have a satisfying width to them when looking head on at the watch. It’s very reminiscent of the untouched condition we all dream of finding vintage watches in. Speaking of reminiscence, the Aquascaphe’s bezel is excellent at capturing just that. Simple 15, 30 and 45 appear with dots for the other markers and a triangle at 12. But, because it’s the 21st century the bezel is sapphire.

Another key factor in this watch having the skin diver vibe is the dial itself. The old world sporty design choices ensure the influence of this piece is duly noted. Much like the bezel, simple aesthetics executed in a considered manner is the name of the game here. An understated sunburst blue dial acts as the backdrop with the gilt coloured seconds track, partial sandwich construction and triangle indices at 3,6 and 9 being the main act. An unobtrusive and elegant handset ensures the watch effectively portrays the essence of vintage watches it’s so desperate to capture. And of course the watch has a double domed sapphire crystal.

Powering this neo-vintage watch is the Miyota 9039 which is the slimmer, dateless brother to the 9015. This popular 24 jewel movement for the microbrand world comes with 42 hours of power reserve and 28,800 vph. It’s a solid movement and a logical choice for Baltic. The movement is operated through a screw-down crown which drops any sign of crown guards.

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