Most people know Vulcain as the Cricket brand — the alarm watch that sat on the wrists of Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Johnson. But the Le Locle manufacturer has another chapter worth knowing: a chronograph version of its legendary 1960s Skindiver Nautique that spent decades buried in the archives. Guillaume Laidet, who took over Vulcain’s collections in 2022, found it and brought it back — first in black and silver, then in limited-edition ice blue and green, and now in a deep blue that’s the most convincing version yet.
The new Skindiver Chronograph Deep Blue has a semi-matte blue sunray dial with white and blue printing, white SuperLuminova indexes, and a silver chronograph counter. The 39.7mm vertically brushed steel case pairs with a bidirectional rotating bezel wearing a black ceramic insert, and the exhibition caseback opens up to show a decorated ETA 7753 automatic movement with a pearl-finished mainplate, Geneva-striped bridges, and an engraved brushed rotor.
Sub-dials sit at 9 and 3 o’clock for running seconds and the 30-minute counter. One genuinely unusual spec is a decimal minute scale that divides each minute into hundredths, rather than 60 seconds, a practical relic of an era when timing meant something different. The run is limited to 100 pieces so get yours before they’re gone.
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