CORRIGIA Watches 10th ANNIVERSARY Bronze 3’000M by Manufaktur CORRIGIA [¿birth of a brand?]

Move over Ennebi, move over VDB – there’s a new player in town! 

Manufaktur Corrigia, the German master strap makers celebrate their 10th anniversary – not with a cake, not with one of their specialist straps but with a handcrafted bronze diver’s watch with 3’000 meters of water-resistance and powered by a high-end, Swiss manufacture movement – and it is as the Germans say, a real hammer!

Naturally the Corrigia atelier has hand-crafted a selection of their specialist leather straps for this very awesome anniversary watch and we’ll get to those, but let’s first take a look at this incredible bronze tool diver that looks like it eats lesser diver’s watches for breakfast. Because Corrigia are strap makers, their 10th Anniversary Bronze 3’000M watch has been designed to accommodate – nay showcase their fine vintage leather straps, so the watch has a generous 26mm lug-width.

The watch case itself takes on the look of some sort of Italian military watch and measures (an appropriate for its style) 47mm in diameter – it has been 100% handcrafted in Switzerland. 

The case itself is made from CuSn8 Bronze, a popular choice for these sorts of artisan diver’s watches because it forms a lovely rich patina but also because of its historic association with the maritime world.

The impressive watch case which is water-resistant to 3’000 meters boasts three striking features. First of all there’s the prominent 120-click unidirectional diver’s bezel, also fashioned from bronze; 

this features a five-minute dive-time scale with polished studs (perhaps a nod to the legendary Egiziano diver’s watch) plus a lumed marker at the 12hr.

Then you can’t help but notice the large crown protection device, there to ensure that the crown remains securely in place but also a key aesthetic feature of this purposeful tool diver. 

Btw there’s a water-resistance engraving on the lower portion of the crown protector least we forget just how deep this watch goes.

While the watch’s case delivers an abundance of brawn; an incredible amount of detail and cost was lavished on the watch’s beautiful face in order to create something truly breathtaking for the watch dial. Created by a leading German dial maker, Schätzle & Cie. Lörrach, the single layer brass dial was deep engraved and hand filled with Swiss SLN Super Luminova in Old Radium. The circular dots and minute markers were also deep engraved and repeatedly hand applied with lume (60 times). Btw, this painstakingly produced dial is known as a taschenfräsen-dial or pocket milled-dial. But before I tell you about the watch case’s final show stopping feature; let’s see what powers the beating heart of this deep diving, bronzed Adonis because it is quite unexpected!

This would be a Swiss made Eterna Manufacture Calibre 39 with a ceramic ball bearing and rhodium winding rotor that oscillates in two directions much like a Rolex caliber. 

Similar to Breitling’s Cal B01 or Tudor’s MT5601, the base Calibre 39 runs at 4 Hertz (28,800 vibrations per hour) and is 30 millimeter wide and provides up to 70 hours of power-reserve.

This means that it can sit and happily idol on your dresser for the entity of the weekend until you pick it up again (still operating) on Monday morning! 

And that final feature is a unique exhibition case-back with no less than three sapphire portholes for gazing upon the watch’s Eterna Calibre 39!

While the watch is indeed water-resistant to 3’000 meters; with its special case-back fitted the watch still has a respectable 300 meters of water-resistance. 

Finally this epic watch is delivered in a handmade Walnut wood presentation box along with a calf leather interior to storage the Corrigia 01 Watch and several of Corrigia’s German hand-crafted leather straps.

MSRP is 11,956USD. Fyi the black patina and blue dial variants have already sold out. Thoughts? It’s been a while since we’ve featured such an epic watch; this is the sort of watch that will instantly appeal to Ennebi and VDB fans and of course Paneristi looking for a more authentic old world interpretation of their favorite timepieces just like they used to produce in the good old days.

I’m yet to handled one of these watches in person; hopefully in the future I will but what I can tell you is that I have followed this watch on its long journey and I know that one man’s blood, sweat and tears as well as his passion for these types of diver’s watches has shaped it. 

Could be this be the birth of an exciting new artisanal diver brand? I hope so! But what do you think? 

Follow the link HERE or the one embedded in the logo, below for more info.