Deep Blue Collection: A Dive Into Vintage
The Deep Blue collection pays homage to the brand’s rich history and technical prowess in dive watchmaking. First introduced in the 1960s, the Deep Blue quickly gained popularity for its robust design coupled with a water resistance down to 200 meters, a prized plus for its time.
The new collection, representing the ‘diver’ facet of Favre Leuba's relaunch, presents two flagship models: the Deep Blue Revival and the Deep Blue Renaissance. The former is a faithful reissue of the original 1964 model, while the latter is a modernized, more contemporary version.
The Deep Blue Renaissance is the cousin of the Deep Blue Revival, but with bolder features and an enhanced, modernized aesthetic signature. It has been redesigned with a fresh, contemporary approach, highlighting a harmonious blend of design and functionality, and careful attention to detail. It oozes sophistication.
The Deep Blue Renaissance’s dial comes in three captivating shades: deep blue, intense green, and anthracite gray. It showcases a striking smoked effect, with a gradient color that is lighter at the center and darker at the edges. White Super-LumiNova®, glowing blue in the dark, ensures perfect legibility under any circumstance. The dial elements, such as the resized logo and hands, have been repositioned for a decidedly contemporary look.
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.
The Deep Blue Renaissance is available with a rubber strap or the completely redesigned ‘3-link’ steel bracelet, both featuring a quick-change interchangeability system for versatility. Note the curved lugs that add a bold touch to the overall design, giving the watch a modern vintage charm.
Favre Leuba’s Deep Blue collection celebrates six decades of horological excellence, blending the brand’s historical designs with the latest in engineering. Each piece pays homage to the spirit of perpetual innovation that defines Favre Leuba. The Deep Blue Renaissance, priced at 30 000 SEK, embodies this legacy with an elegant, modern take.
Anchored in the brand’s nautical heritage while sailing towards the future
2024 proudly brings back the iconic Favre Leuba Deep Blue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the maison’s earliest and most legendary dive watches. Originally released in 1964 during the Swiss Watch Fair, Deep Blue came imbued with the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s. It was a period during which Favre Leuba remained committed to pursuing the goal of producing robust, functional watches that were extremely useful for the wearer in any situation, wherever they were in the world. The brand’s advertising slogan at the time perfectly summed up this approach: The Swiss Watch for All Climates.
Classic Fluidity
The Deep Blue Renaissance reinterprets the classic diver’s watch for today’s connoisseurs with its 300-metre water-resistant round case, executed masterfully in stainless steel. It is aesthetically modern with the dimensions, measuring 40mm in diameter and 12.69mm in thickness. The graceful contours of the case, along with the tapered lugs featuring polished chamfered edges, achieve an ideal balance between aesthetics and comfort.
It is affixed with a unidirectional ceramic bezel and sapphire crystal glass. These high-tech materials exude sophistication while offering superior resistance to scratches and environmental elements, ensuring the timepiece stands the test of time. The sapphire crystal caseback reveals the watch’s power source, providing a clear view of the automatic movement.
Uninterrupted Visibility
Upholding the tradition of functional elegance, the dial of the Deep Blue Renaissance boasts an interesting two-layered sandwich construction. It consists of a top layer, with perforated indexes, positioned over a base layer coated with Superluminova, resulting in bright, luminous hour markers. These markers, coupled with luminous vintage-inspired hands, strengthen uninterrupted visibility underwater.
The dial is equal part dressy, featuring a vibrant blue hue with a nice gradient finish. A round date aperture is positioned discreetly between four and five o’clock for a clean, understated look and enhanced legibility.
Easily Interchangeable
The Deep Blue Renaissance is presented on a three-link stainless steel bracelet. It carries an impeccable finish and comes with an ergonomic interchangeable strap system to ensure your adventures never cease.
Superior Driving Force
Designed and manufactured with high Swiss craftsmanship, FLD02 is a self-winding calibre. A testament to unrivalled accuracy and reliability, the movement is equipped with a date complication. It features a power reserve of 68 hours and delivers exceptional precision, beating at a 4Hz frequency.
Custom Skeletonised Design
The 4N gold-plated rotor is skeletonised and custom-designed with the Soleillage finish. It bears the Favre Leuba monogram engraved as a medallion. Skeletonisation of the rotor is an extremely precise task with more implications than just aesthetics. The weight and other characteristics of the rotor boast surgical precision to ensure winding efficiency.
Visibility Under All Conditions
The hands, indexes, and 12 o'clock marker on the diving bezel have a radium-like lume that offers a vintage look to the watch and a highly effective glow in the dark.
Technical information
Case
- Case: Size 40 mm
- Material: Steel
- Case shape: Round
- Case Thickness: 12.69 mm
- Lug Width: 20 mm
- Glass Material: Sapphire Crystal
- Bezel: Unidirectional Rotating Bezel
- Case Back: See-through Case Back
- Water Resistance: 300M
Dial
- Dial Colour: Blue
- 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: Blue rubber
Reference
- 00.20308.101.02.200 Bracelet
- 00.20308.101.02.302 Rubber
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.
