First designed in 2008 and developed with the help of the combat swimmers of the French Navy's Commando Hubert, who have adopted it from 2010, the WRX Hybrid is Ralf Tech’s first true tool diver.
Establishing itself as one of the benchmark timepieces used elite units; the WRX has continued to evolve, remaining at the forefront of watchmaking innovation since its creation.
Equipping the majority of France’s Special Forces units and beyond, the WRX is a safe and efficient tool. Used by professional divers and skippers all over the world, it is synonymous with know-how and reliability.
As the environments in which WRXs evolve become more and more demanding, a new generation has been in development for several years.
Since 2019 Ralf Tech has been pursuing an intensive campaign of deep sea trials in collaboration with the French Navy in order to test new technical solutions, both in terms of robustness and water-resistance.
At the same time, Ralf Tech has also been working for several years with its partners on the declination of the famous Hybrid movement in order to give it an unequalled autonomy.
After 2 years of development and experimentation in its natural environment, Ralf Tech has launched a new generation of WRX combining technical modifications and new finishes.
These WRX are, among other things, equipped with a new "Electric" movement, new "Sandwich" dials and an innovative encapsulation system guaranteeing a real waterproofness up to 1000 certified meters.
The new WRX Electric has new sandwich type dial composed of two thicknesses it allows for an application of a large quantity of SuperLuminova on a disc placed under the main dial. Thanks to this stencil technique, readability is excellent by day and visibility is exceptional at night.
The new WRX Electric inaugurates a new type of movement; developed in Switzerland for Ralf Tech, this new movement works according to a system of micro hybridization.
It combines precision, reliability and energy savings. Built from the mechatronic base of the hybrid movement equipping the previous generations of WRX, the RTE001 movement reduces the number of moving parts and simplifies the quartz power supply as much as possible.
Its autonomy can go up to 100,000 hours, i.e. almost 12 years, whereas most movements offer a power reserve of 40 hours for automatic movements and about 2 years for traditional quartz. Another change is that the new WRXs now have a case-back with a new "encapsulation" system.
This innovation allows the watch back to be sealed to the case, guaranteeing optimal water-resistance. In order to secure the maintenance of WRX watches, only Ralf Tech has the specific tool to open and close the case-back of new models, thus guaranteeing, revision after revision, the original water-resistance of WRX watches.
Since the majority of WRX users are professionals, the idea was to make their lives easier. Often absent, evolving in degraded conditions, their watch must remain a powerful and safe tool.
Thanks to the new movement and Ralf Tech’s novel waterproofing system, minimal maintenance is required for these latest generation WRX watches.
A visit every 10 years will allow Ralf Tech to check the watch's energy system, change all the seals and re-capsulate the watch, thus ensuring the peace of mind of WRX users for the next 10 years.
Thickest scratch-resistant sapphire crystal on the market (for a standard watch) with a thickness of 5.9mm, 10mm thick case-band at strategic points, large straps held by anti-tearing threaded rods,
Ceramfine bezels for the most extreme, water resistance guaranteed up to 1000 meters for certain finishes, the WRX are intrinsically high-performance tools. Their new features now make them monsters of efficiency.
Operating in a range of use from -10° to +55° their resistance to shock and vibration is exceptional. With 12 years of power-reserve, their autonomy reaches record levels.
Their dials make them ultra-legible. These technical characteristics validated by sea trials are the sum of all Ralf Tech's know-how.
Assembled in France, the new WRX will be available in 6 different finishes, 3 of which will be available from October. Retail prices are between 1’900€ and 2’000€ depending on the version.
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