Release Calendar For The Rest Of This Year

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Elshan Tang:

Its been a few months since the last update and I've got some exciting plans for the production and release calendar for the rest of this year!
Pardon me if I can't share too much about the projects mentioned here but be assured I'll share more once the release date is near.

Early-mid July- Mako Ti (with special edition Timascus dial/bezel variant)
Early Aug- SF40 Titanium
End Aug- Skyraider Specials (Timascus, Tantalum, Cerakoted Ti)
Sept- Great White Steel 43mm : Identical to the Mako V3s, just larger
Oct/Nov- Starfighter : ETA 2894 powered chrono
Oct/Nov- Spearfish 40mm : The premium version of the Swordfish, powered by an all new Swiss LJP movement that no other brand has used yet (2824 replacement with similar pricing)
Dec- HH3 Bronze
 
:wink: Thanks for posting this information up, Mike.:hat:
 
I’m looking forward to the Great White, 43 fits my wrist well. I think these will be NH movements making them more accessible to those with smaller watch budgets!

Update: Elshan commented that the GW 43, will have a 9015. Guess I may need to sell a couple now!
 
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Based on the 7750, so similar thickness (total watch will be at least 13.5-14mm)
-Column wheel instead of the cam(used in the 7750)
Elshan Tang:

I have secured a batch of the newest LJP chrono movements and I'm wondering what you guys would like to see it in? I've got a 'pilot' styled chrono in the Starfighter coming, so that's out. Driver? Diver? Yacht/Sailing? Dress?

Some quick features of the movement
-Based on the 7750, so similar thickness (total watch will be at least 13.5-14mm)
-Column wheel instead of the cam(used in the 7750)
-60H PR

-Bicompax layout (subdials at 3 and 9)
 

The movement​

The original movement was a hand wound Valjoux 23. It used a column wheel. The two types of construction for the chronograph pushers to actually engage and reset the Chrono are cam-and-lever or column wheel. The Patek, old Valjoux, and even the affordable China made ST19 family derived from old school Venus movements are column wheel. The ETA 7750 family are Cam and lever.

Cam and lever and column wheel have about the same amount of parts. Column wheels generally feel easier and more smooth to operate.

What makes the 2020 Aquastar Deepstar interesting is, it’s not using an ETA 7750 family movement. Aquastar describes this as a “High end Swiss Made Manufacture caliber, Mono-Compax Column Wheel mechanical Chronograph,” and it is.


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But whose? There are relatively few Swiss manufacture calibers with integrated chronograph (not a module stacked on top of a 3-hand movement.)

Integrated chronographs incorporate the chronograph mechanisms into the three-hand movement. There’s all the pre-70’s vintage hand-wind chronographs, the automatic Zenith El Primero, the Valjoux 7750 (and all the earlier Valjoux hand-wind chronographs), the Lemania 870, 1870, 2310, 1340, the Rolex 4130, the Breitling B01 (also used by Tudor), and the TAG-Heuer 1887.

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This is isn’t any of those. This is an automatic that’s similar in function to the hand-wound Venus 175. If you were struggling to figure out who made it, it is “custom manufactured for the Deepstar by La Joux-Perret, and like its predecessor the Valjoux 23,” has column-wheel operated pushers.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter. If you like the look, like the size, they’re only making 300 of these, so you may as well snap it up. The Aquasar Deepstar requires a deposit of $3950. The Aquastar Deepstar is available at Aquastar.ch


Tech Specs from Aquastar:

  • 40.5mm 316L Stainless Steel Case,
  • LaJoux-Perret column wheel mono-compax automatic chronograph movement
  • Hour, minute and seconds indicators
  • Operation indicator at 9
  • 30 minute stop watch sub counter at 3
  • Successive/Multiple dive non decompression table calculator according to the French Navy dive tables
  • Steel grey sunburst dial design
  • Applied stainless steel markers/indices
  • High density filling old light Radium super luminova application
  • high domed, AR triple coated sapphire crystal
  • Matching color Genuine original Tropic rubber strap with signed Aquastar buckle Seatbelt NATO strap
  • Stainless Steel BOR bracelet with fitted endlinks coming in January 2021


 
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