Favre Leuba Expands the Deep Raider Revival with a Vibrant Orange Neo-Vintage Aesthetic
Building on the successful relaunch of its diver collection, Favre Leuba is proud to announce a vibrant new reference to the Deep Raider Revival family. Positioning itself at the forefront of the Neo-Vintage category, this latest edition pairs the retro aesthetics of the 60th-anniversary Deep Raider Revival, launched in 2024, with a bold color palette inspired by the design codes of the 1970s. The design draws inspiration from the iconic orange Bathy 160 launched during the era.
Delivered as a complete set, each timepiece comes with both the integrated five-link steel bracelet and an additional matching orange fabric strap, offering two distinct wearing options while reinforcing the model’s vintage-inspired character.
A Fan-Favorite, Reimagined
Since its reintroduction in 2024, the Deep Raider Revival has cemented its status as one of the most-loved timepieces in Favre Leuba’s repertoire. Its popularity stems from its ability to capture the soul of the brand's vintage aesthetic while meeting the demands of modern collectors. This new orange variation responds to that enthusiasm, offering a fresh, high-energy take on a proven icon.
The Neo-Vintage Aesthetic: Where History Meets Modernity
The essentials remain unchanged in this extension of the Deep Raider Revival line. The choice of orange is a deliberate nod to both Favre Leuba’s use of orange in dive watches from the 1970s (Bathy 160) and professional diving tradition. In watchmaking lore, orange has always been considered the most visible color in the underwater spectrum, providing a vital contrast against the deep blue of the ocean.
Vintage Soul, Modern Performance
While the core of the Revival series honors the 1964 original, this new reference leans into the brand’s 1970s DNA through:
Signature orange Accents: The dial and hands feature striking orange highlights, ensuring instantaneous legibility for critical dive data.
Dual-Strap Versatility: In addition to the classic 5-link steel bracelet with its signature triangular links, this model includes an additional orange fabric strap, offering a sporty, lightweight alternative that reinforces the watch’s tool-watch credentials.
Deep Raider Collection: A Dive Into Vintage
The Deep Raider collection pays homage to the brand’s rich history and technical prowess in dive watchmaking. First introduced in the 1960s, the Deep Raider quickly gained popularity for its robust design coupled with a water resistance down to 200 meters, a prized plus for its time.
The case, 39mm in diameter and 12.75mm in thickness, thick case is designed and built for a water resistance of up to a depth of 300 meters, surpassing the 200 meters of the 60s model. All the professional dive watch boxes are ticked, including the unidirectional rotating bezel for calculating and monitoring no-stop dive times. This elegantly slim and robust case makes the Deep Raider Revival an ideal diver’s companion, offering exceptional wrist comfort both below and above sea level, in the wet or the dry. The solid case back, engraved with the ‘Favre Leuba 1737’ and hourglass emblem, is identical to its historical predecessor.
The Deep Raider Revival Orange is powered by La Joux-Perret’s automatic G100 movement, ensuring a generous 68-hour power reserve, allowing you to leave your watch over the weekend and find it running accurately on Monday morning. This mechanism, entirely designed and produced by the prestigious Manufacture La Joux-Perret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, offers hour, minute, central second, and date functions.
The model introduced in 1964 had an acrylic crystal; the new reincarnation boasts a sapphire crystal for increased durability. The bezel, made of bakelite back in the day, has been replaced with a sapphire insert printed on the back, faithfully reproducing the original’s look. The visual effect of depth is preserved, with the added bonus of superior scratch resistance. The luminous triangle at 12 o'clock and the white printed scale remain, as before, key identifying features. While these material improvements reflect contemporary standards and production techniques; they fully respect the vintage spirit.
Priced at 32 000 SEK the Deep Raider Revival Orange embodies the spirit of innovation and excellence that has defined the brand since its inception, a watch that integrates modern technical features while honoring its heritage. The steel bracelet, too, stays true to the original design with its 5-link construction featuring triangular links. Featuring a deployant clasp, its subtle satin-brushed steel sheen captures the light, adding a note of sophistication and elegance.
Beneath the dial, the beautifully decorated La Joux-Perret G100 movement – which is visible through the sapphire case back, offering a stunning view of the refined mechanism. Enhanced water resistance up to 300 meters guarantees exceptional performance, even in the most demanding underwater environments. The enlarged screw-down crown, engraved with an hourglass emblem, completes this robust design and ensures maximum water protection against water ingress.
Besides the fundamentals such as hour, minute, and central second, the Deep Blue Renaissancefeatures a date function with a window at 4:40. Naturally, it ticks off the key essentials of a dive watch, a unidirectional rotating bezel. Adapted in ceramic for the slightly larger 40mm case, the combination of the sleek material with a new numeral design projects a modern, purpose-designed vibe.
Retro Inspired
For a faithful recreation, Deep Revival forgoes contemporary proportions and embraces the humble 39mm dimension of the original. This moderate size at once feels retro and sizeable on the wrist while exerting a surprising level of wearability. It is 12.75mm thick and features a classic round shape that delivers an appealing vintage aesthetic. It further nods to the past with a closed caseback decorated with the maison's monogram and the use of box crystal atop the dial.
In addition to these nostalgia-borne details, the Deep Blue Revival is well-balanced with considered evolutions. It adapts modern functionality by expanding water resistance to 300 metres in lieu of the original’s 200. Furthermore, the fine polished finish on the stainless steel case juxtaposed with the brushed, bevelled edges of the tapered lugs certainly gives the watch a contemporary character.
Technical information
Case
- Case: Size 39 mm
- Material: Steel
- Case shape: Round
- Case Thickness: 12.75 mm
- Lug Width: 19 mm
- Glass Material: Sapphire Crystal
- Bezel: Unidirectional Rotating Bezel
- Water Resistance: 300M
Dial
- Dial Colour: Black
- Luminosity: On Hands, Hour Markers & Bezel
Movement
- Caliber: FLD01
- Movement: Automatic
- Features: Date
- Jewels: 24
- Power reserve: Approx. 68 hours
- Frequency: 28800 vph
Bracelet and straps
- Material: Steel
- Clasp Type: Folding clasp
- Strap: Orange fabric strap
Reference
- 00.20307.100.06.200
FAVRE LEUBA HISTORY
A JOURNEY OF 287 YEARS SINCE 1737
Favre Leuba developed the legendary Bivouac, the world’s first mechanical wristwatch with an aneroid barometer for altimetry and air pressure measurement. It soon ranked among the indispensable equipment of those who overcame seemingly defined limits. The Bivouac completed one of its first missions on the wrists of the Swiss national parachuting team during the 1962 World Cup in the United States. The Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti wore a Bivouac in 1964 when he and the Genevan Michel Vaucher successfully ascended the north face of Pointe Whymper (4,196 m) in the Grandes Jorasses for the first time and when he conquered the north face of the Matterhorn on the most direct route. The young Valais native Michel Darbelley undertook his first solo ascent of the Eiger in 1963 with his watch from the workshops of Favre Leuba, which reliably showed him what altitude he had already scaled and whether a change in weather was imminent. The famous French polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor relied on his Bivouac on numerous expeditions to the endless ice.
FL251 CALIBREThe patented FL251 calibre of 1962, with 11.5‴ and a height of only 2.95 mm, revolutionised thanks to the use of two barrels, series production of extra flat movements with centered second hand.
Three years after the presentation of the first diver’s watch from the in-house atelier, the brand launched the Deep Blue, waterproof up to 200 metres.
NEW HEADQUARTERS Favre Leuba reincorporated production of their own ébauches in the newly established company, headquartered in Petit-Lancy near Geneva. The company was consequently named at the end of the 19th century as Manufacture d’Horlogerie Favre-Leuba S.A.
280th anniversary of the Maison was celebrated at Baselworld with the launch of the Bivouac 9000, the ultimate instrument for all altitudes.
BRAND AMBASSADORSThe brand supports many athletes and expeditions that express our claim of Conquering Frontiers. Pen Hadow, who led a mission to the Arctic, Satyarup Siddhanta, who embarked on a journey to the Mt. Vinson Massif, and Sayuri Kinoshita, who undertook a world-record dive, are some of the ambassadors representing Favre Leuba and their tool watches.
Within less than a year of its launch, the Raider Bivouac 9000 wins the Watchstars award in the category New Stars for being the best new watch.
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATHY Favre Leuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1968 superstar Bathy with the Raider Bathy 120 MemoDepth, which measures and records depth to 120 m.
BIVOUAC 9000 SUMMITS EVERESTA great year for Favre Leuba as its pioneering instrument watch, the Raider Bivouac 9000, reaches the summit of Mount Everest. The Bivouac 9000 is the only mechanical altimeter watch in the world to have successfully reached an altitude of 8,848m.
2024
FAVRE LEUBA REVIVAL
Favre Leuba relaunched at Geneva Watch Days 2024 with three cornerstone collections. These collections include the Chief, which features two modern icons: the Date and Chronograph. The brand also introduced the 60th-anniversary Deep Blue Revival and Renaissance models, honoring its diving heritage. In addition, the brand unveiled the Sea Sky, a tribute to their original 70s design.
