AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph Re-Edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AQUASTAR – DEEPSTAR Chronograph Re-Edition 2020

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A STAR IS (RE)BORN
THE 2020 DEEPSTAR

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Founded in 1962 in Geneva/Switzerland,
AQUASTAR has since set  milestones in the evolutio\n of the dive watch.
AQUASTAR is reborn

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Distinctive in appearance, robust in build, and innovative in its function, quickly became the favorite of both sport and technical divers alike. 

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Great divers wore the Deepstar during their groundbreaking Conshelf II and III undersea habitat experiments and the watch was seen on the wrists of legendary ship crews for the better part of a decade.

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AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph - 1962🔺

The great French freediver who set the world record in free diving twice, also wore a Deepstar when he dove to a record 75 meters on a single breath in 1968 and it was a favorite of his throughout the 1960s. Aquastar was the watch of serious divers, and the Deepstar was its jewel.

Diver, Innovator, Disruptor

Aquastar was founded in 1962 in the city of Geneva in Switzerland by Mr. Frédéric Robert.  Mr. Robert, a diver, a sailor, a pilot, a watchmaker, a mathematician. He also represented Switzerland at the 1948 yachting world championship.

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AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph - 1962🔺

With extensive experience on the high seas, Robert set out to start a watch company that focused on developing watches, watch parts, and specialized instruments exclusively for underwater activities, ranging from sport diving to professional scientific excursions and underwater exploration, with the ultimate goal of making all diving exploits safer. 

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 It was November 1962 when Robert renamed his father’s company JeanRichard™ company to “Aquastar,” and it was here, where an entirely new underwater legacy was born. 

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AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph - 1962🔺

Aquastar marked the first time in the Swiss watchmaking world where a company was dedicated to producing professional-grade watches and timing instruments in a single market segment. 

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AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph - 1962🔺

And with a catalog that quickly grew into dive watches and other aquatic tools like dive compasses, depth gauges, and thermometers – all of which could be fit onto watch straps, Aquastar’s mission soon became quite a unique one at the time for a Swiss horology Maison.

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It was during this time that Mr. F. Robert distributed his range of diving instruments under the new name “Aquastar” almost exclusively through specialized stores instead of regular retailers.

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Given the socioeconomic environment of the times, this non-traditional sales tactic seemed risky at first, but it reflected Robert’s innovative approach to problem solving – a trait that would reflect in his many patented designs, as well as the backbone that would define the brand’s disruptive legacy many years later.

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In the picture below you see one of the first timepieces created by F. Robert in 1958, a water-resistant watch with a stop watch function, the “AQUASTART”.

DEEPSTAR, UNMISTAKABLY AN AQUASTAR

The 2020 Aquastar Deepstar is a faithful recreation of one of the most influential dive watches of the 60s. The unique and uncluttered mono sub counter dial, combined with the small running indicator, and the patented multiple dive decompression bezel table make the Deepstar an unmatched diver-oriented tool with an instantly recognizable design.

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The 2020 Deepstar retains all proportions of the original Deepstar from the 60s while relying on high end Swiss Manufacture automatic Chronograph movement instead and the manual wind Valjoux 23. This gives the new Deepstar the practicality and versatility you expect from a modern Chronograph.

A Legend of the Deep Resurfaces

The 1960s: divers were going deeper and staying down longer, mapping the ocean, discovering new worlds, and exploring the limits of human endurance and tolerance for pressure. But stay too deep too long and a diver can either run out of air or get the bends. 

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Enter Aquastar, a watch brand founded in 1962 with the sole aim of designing and building watches and instruments for aquatic use. Aquastar’s early watches were worn by navy divers, shipwreck hunters, champion freedivers and undersea explorers.

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But it was the Deepstar that really broke new ground when it appeared in 1965.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model: AQUASTAR – Deepstar Chronograph Re-Edition

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Case
316L Stainless Steel case with highly domed, AR triple coated sapphire crystal
Diameter: 40.5mm
Height: 14.8mm
Bezel: Rotating, stainless steel with decompression engravings
Water resistance: 200 meters (pushers may be activated underwater)
Dial

• Steel grey sunburst dial design
• Blue sunburst dial design
• Black

Applied stainless steel markers/indices
Very high density filling old light Radium superluminova application
Movement
High-end Swiss Made Manufacture caliber
Mono-Compax Column Wheel mechanical Chronograph
Second chronograph at center
30mincounter at 3h
Running indicator at 9h
Physical dimensions: Ø30.40×7.90mm
Cage diameter: Ø30.00mm
Frequency 4Hz
Power reserve: 55h
Reassembly: Bi-directional automatic
Number of rubies: 28
Rotor: Aquastar decorated and skeletonized Rotor
Functions
Hour, minute and seconds indicators
Operation indicator at 9
30 minute stopwatch sub-counter at 3
Successive/Multiple dive non-decompression table calculator according to the French Navy dive tables
Strap
Set of 2straps included in the pre-order
Matching color
22mm lug width
Genuine original Tropic rubber strap with signed Aquastar buckle
Horween shell cordovan leather strap with signed Aquastar buckle
Stainless Steel BOR bracelet with fitted end links (available from January 2021)

Retail price: $3,590 (Pre-Order Price:$2,790)

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