♫ We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine … ♪ my apologies for the slight musical intrusion into your otherwise peaceful perusing - I couldn't help myself.
When is a diver not a diver? When it’s a Yellow Submarine of course; or when it’s a 90’000CHF piece of haute horology with a mechanically illuminated dial and a water-resistance exceeding 100 meters – only by 5 meters that is.
This is the Yellow Submarine AKA DB28 from De Bethune. It is what they describe as a diver’s watch in the colors of fire with a water-resistance a 105 meters, and diver’s bezel so actually it is in fact a diver, just not the sort that we are used to round here.
Having said that, the DB28 does have one very cool party trick which is said to allow fro excellent readability even in the darkest of depths thanks to the ingenious lighting inside the watch’s mechanical movement as well as the use of a new photo-luminescent blue.
In addition to the above its diver’s bezel rotates with the crystal to indicate dive-time whatever that means – perhaps a crystal inlay. The watch’s main Sapphire crystal also has double anti-reflective treatment.
The watch along with its Manufacture DB2080 caliber, hand-cranked movement with 5 days of power-reserve is all spectacularly presented in a lightweight Zirconium and Titanium case along with a natural rubber diver’s strap (or canvas as show below).
The Yellow Submarine’s incredible movement consists of 400 components and boasts tons of De Bethune in-house innovations. It has a self-regulating twin barrel, a Titanium balance wheel with white gold inserts, a Silicon escapement wheel as well as a triple pare-chute shock-absorbing system.
Meanwhile its 44mm by 12.8mm watch case is made from black Zirconium (mid-case) while the rest of its components such as the case-back, bezel and floating lugs are all made of yellow brushed Grade 5 Titanium. Btw I haven't got a Scooby Doo what "yellow" Ti is - anyone?
The dial is in satin-brushed and yellow Grade 5 Titanium with cut-out Arabic numerals and a power-reserve indicator between 9 and 10 o’clock. The dial is illuminated entirely by mechanical means working on the dynamo principle powered by a twin barrel and manually controlled via a pusher.
Thoughts? This is next level stuff indeed – I would love to see some lume shots. What do you think? This or a new 911?
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