Later in 1926, Nivada Grenchen pivoted and established itself as a watch manufacturer. The company mainly served as the assembler and designer that sourced parts from a Swiss company, Nivada Grenchen.
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The Nivada Grenchen Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver: cases, 316L stainless steel, 38mm x 14.25 or 16.25 for manual or automatic models respectively. Prices, €650-850 depending on bracelet or strap options. Movement, SW200, running at 28,800 vph in 26 jewels stop seconds, 38-hour power reserve. Sapphire crystal, 100 meters' water resistance.
The Nivada Grenchen Antarctic: cases, 316L stainless steel, 38mm x 11.50mm and 45mm lug to lug solid caseback with applied medallion with cool engraving which will make you feel like heroic explorer. There is a 60-minute/12-hour rotating bezel, an inner tachymetric scale, and the red yacht-timer countdown segment on the chronograph minutes totalizer which was something of a visual signature for the original model. After all, we must recall that its design hails from a time when digital displays were in the future, and being able to decipher an analog gauge at a glance was a necessary survival skill.
For something that tried (and tries) to cram all the bells and whistles of a classic two-register chronograph into a watch along with a 100-meter depth rating (the only thing that keeps it from fulfilling the technical requirements for a dive watch is the bezel, which is bidirectional) the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver manages to come across, if not as an example of Bauhaus-esque self-restraint, then at least as a technical timepiece which does its level best to deliver a lot of analog information in a coherent fashion. The Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver was and is something of a watch that tries to be all things to all people, but succeeds at it perhaps better than most. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, which marked the beginning of the establishment of a permanent human presence in Antarctica (as well as the beginning, unsurprisingly, of an ad campaign from Nivada touting its presence on the expeditions). The original Antarctic watch went to the South Pole as part of the U.S. These are the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver, which can be had in either a hand-wound or automatic model, and the Antarctic, which was originally developed in conjunction with the International Geophysical Year (the same "year of exploration" for which the Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic was made) in 1958. In partnership with Remi Chabrat, the owner of a private label Swiss watch firm known as the Montrichard Group, plans were made to re-launch Nivada with watches based on two vintage models. 1985, and most recently back in 2018 when he launched a couple of very attractive automatic chronographs with Seiko movements. The genius loci in Switzerland for the brand is none other than Guillaume Laidet, whom we last encountered here at HODINKEE as the founder of the eponymous brand William L.
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