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Long before humans learned how to separate gold and silver, they were one. Electrum — the natural alloy of the two metals — was prized by ancient civilizations and minted into the first coins ever struck in 7th-century BC in Lydia. And today, it’s the material at the center of Electra’s latest Dare-Devil Diver Electrum.
It’s a pretty epic reference point for a watch, and comes together beautifully in the stainless steel beads of rice bracelet, ceramic bezel, and Guilloché “Sovereign Sunray” dial, with an Electrum finish. Here’s what you need to know.
Electra WatchesA dial that shifts with the light
The dial is the big story: Electra calls it the “Guilloché Soleillé Souverain” — a surface plated in Electrum, which is primarily gold fused with silver. The result shifts between pale gold and golden white depending on the light, playing off applied silver-toned markers, triangular hour indices, and numerals at 3, 6, 9, and 12 — the remaining hours filled with retro baton markers drawn straight from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Electra WatchesA case built to dive
The case is 38mm in polished and brushed stainless steel — a size that works on most wrists — with a redesigned screw-down crown, double-domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating underneath, 666 feet of water resistance, and a unidirectional 120-click ceramic and Lumed bezel. Power comes from the Swiss Soprod P024, regulated to an impressive +2/-2 seconds per day by the watchmakers at Manufacture Pequignet, who ensure the assembly in Morteau and deliver high-end quality control.
Electra’s revival
Electra is a brand with an interrupted history: launched in the late 1960s with immediate commercial success, then killed by the quartz crisis in 1971, and revived in 2025 by the founder and watch creative Don Hutinay. The Dare-Devil Diver Electrum justifies the comeback with a unique, well-made, and accessibly priced timepiece — €890 on FKM rubber or €990 on a beads-of-rice steel bracelet, a limited edition of 150 numbered pieces.
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