Ulysse Nardin – DIVER X Antarctica Chronometer Titanium 44mm Limited Edition
TO THE END OF THE EARTH
AN ODE TO ICE
An ode to Sebastian Copeland’s photography of the Earth’s southernmost continent, Ulysse Nardin’s DIVER X ANTARCTICA is a polar symphony of light, ice and an extension of Copeland’s expression of his deep love for the planet.
Paris, November 13, 2019 -Terra Australis, as Antarctica was formerly called - the last continent to be discovered and the Earth’s southernmost, most hostile landmass - has been a source of fascination for explorers, scientists and historians for the two centuries since it was first sighted. A place of mystery and intrigue, the frozen tip of the planet has been fabled destination and source of fascination since Aristotle wrote about a possible Antarctic region in his tome Meteorology circa 350 BC.
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In an ode to the essence of exploration and all it entails,
Ulysse Nardin has designed the
DIVER X ANTARCTICA. An avatar in the world of watchmaking, the
ANTARCTICA model of the
DIVER X is a watch that brings the “
X-factor” to tackle world’s roughest seas - in honor of the modern-day
Ulysses who choose to risk exploring this daunting, dangerous place, literally located at the end of the Earth. With its light blue icebergs and frozen ocean, beacons of an age long past,
Antarctica has no longitude coordinates, only a location of
90° latitude.
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Sebastian Copeland is a photographer who uses his artistic work to communicate messages of urgent global significance. A friend of the Swiss watch manufacture
Ulysse Nardin since
November 2019 he joined the brand’s armada of modern explorers known as “
Team of Ulysses” together with other free-spirited watermen and women:
Fred Buyle, Alex Caizergues, Mathieu Crepel, Sebastien Destremau, Ben Thouard and Alessia Zecchini.
Sebastian’s images have been seen around the world and his books are a reference for modern explorers as well as for those merely curious about the extreme climate; the cold, dry and windblown, least inhabited continent on Earth. On the centennial
2011-2012 season of the
South Pole, with partner
Eric McNair-Landry, Sebastian spent more than his fair share of time in the field, witnessing this marvel of time untouched firsthand. He led the first East/West transcontinental crossing of
Antarctica by skis and kites via two of its poles, setting three world records over the
4100 kilometers during an expedition through the polar desert that lasted a grueling
82 days. Sebastian is planning a new expedition to cross the
Arctic Ocean in
2021.
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The fruit of
Sebastian’s labor has been seen on the
National Geographic Channel,
CNN, in the
New York Times and
Paris Match, among others. He is a devoted proponent of environmental conservation and his published books are a living testament to his crusade. “
Helping people fall in love with their world,” he says, ”is a catalyst to wanting to save it”.
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A polar symphony of light and ice, the
Ulysse Nardin Diver X ANTARCTICA is an extension of his deep love and respect for the planet. “
Ulysse Nardin is a brand as devoted to our planet’s oceans as I am. I believe that our partnership will bring important benefits to all parties concerned and, hopefully, raise awareness of what we need to do to take better care of this great blue planet.”
DIVER X ANTARCTICA
A matte white rubber strap recalls the clean and austere lines of the Earth’s Southernmost Continent with ice blue touches on the dial reflecting the icebergs floating in the sea there. The
Ulysse Nardin brand element is prominent under the sand-blasted dial. The bezel - in a white rubber - matches the watch strap.
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Its
UN-118 movement guarantees accuracy in any hemisphere at any time of the day or night. The gray face is marked with a bold and elegant “
X”. The crown, horns and case back are all made from titanium.
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The stamp on the back of the watch details not only the coordinates of the Antarctic Continent:
90° latitude (with no longitude necessary for the landmass located at the southernmost tip of the Earth) but also the route of the
Vendée Globe sailing race, of which
Ulysse Nardin has become the official sponsor.
SEBASTIAN COPELAND
POLAR EXPLORER, PHOTOGRAPHER & ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST
Sebastian Copeland is a polar explorer, award winning photographer, author, public speaker and environmental activist. In 2017, Men’s Journal named Sebastian one of 25 of the world’s top adventurers of the last 25 years.
His work has been featured in National Geographic, Vanity Fair,
Outside, American Photo, The New York Times, People, USA Today, Paris
Match, Stern as well on NBC, CBS, NPR, The Weather Channel and CNN’s
Larry King Live. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of UCLA (’87)
and the son of an illustrious family of artists (his father is
classical conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus), Sebastian — a
British/French/US national relocated to NY in 1980 — began his career directing music videos and commercials, and photographing fashion, celebrities and advertising.
Sebastian has been noted as a photographer “
who has produced works that are of outstanding artistic
merit and communicates messages of urgent global significance."
Sebastian uses photography as a
medium for activism. “
Helping people fall in love with their world,” he says, ”is a catalyst to wanting to save it”.
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Sebastian won the prestigious
International Photography Awards’
2007 Professional
Photographer of the Year for his best selling first book
Antarctica: A
Global Warning (Palace Press). In
2008, Sebastian released a second book titled
Antarctica: A Call To Action. His latest book Arctica: The
Vanishing North (teNeues) was released in
2015 for which Sebastian won the Photographer of the Year award from the
2016 Tokyo Int’l Photo Awards. It also won the ITB Book Award; and the
Global Arctic Award’s book category. His fine quality prints have appeared at the
United Nations (Solo Show,
2007); the Council on
Foreign Relations;
Peabody Essex Museum; the Field Museum and the BACC museum among
others. These works can also be found in private collections in both the
United States and
Europe and several are now part of the permanent
archive of The
Natural World Museum in
San Francisco. In
2018,
the French Sénat awarded Sebastian with the prestigious solo exhibition
around the gates of the Luxembourg gardens. This public exhibit of
80 large panels of
Sebastian’s polar photographs reached
4 million visitors over the four months with an urgent climate message.
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A personal commitment to fight for the protection of the environment and a relentless pursuit of a
sustainable future has led
Sebastian to focus on visual arts as a tool for social change. Since
1999, Sebastian has worked closely with
Global Green USA (the
US arm of President Gorbachev’s Green
Cross International), where he serves on the Board of Directors. A life-long waterman, climber and
mountaineer,
Sebastian has specialized his adventure skills to polar exploration, and re-tooled his
commercial photography roots into Fine Art as a medium for activism. Since
1999, he has led various expeditions
to the Polar regions.
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Sebastian spearheaded a media effort in the
Arctic in
2005 in defense of the Inuit. He spent two seasons (
2006 and
2007) aboard a scientific research icebreaker in the
Antarctic Peninsula. In
2008 with partner
Luc Hardy,
Sebastian led
a team of nine children from international nationalities to the
northernmost Canadian Arctic as the
Young Ambassadors of the
Arctic. In
March
2009,
Sebastian led a mission to what is widely considered the most difficult expedition in the world: the geographical
North Pole. He and his partner
Keith Heger walked seven hundred kilometers to commemorate the centennial of
Admiral Peary’s reach in
1909. Sebastian chronicled the mission in his first documentary Into The Cold: A
Journey Of The Soul. The film premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival and has won multiple international awards.
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In
2010,
Sebastian and his partner
Eric McNair-Landry spent
43 days
crossing the Greenland ice sheet using skis and kites and without
outside support. During the
2300 kilometers crossing, they set a new
world record for longest distance traveled on kites and skis over one
twenty-hour period by covering
595 kilometers. The trip was chronicled
in
Sebastian's second documentary film, Across The Ice (
2015) produced
for
Red Bull Media House.
On the centennial
2011-2012 season of the South Pole, again with partner
Eric McNair-Landry,
Sebastian
led the first East/West transcontinental crossing of Antarctica by skis
and kites via two of its poles, setting three world records over the
4100 kilometers/
82 days expedition. In
2016,
Sebastian and partner
Mark
George completed the longest unsupported East-West crossing of the
Simpson Desert,
Australia’s driest area. The expedition was a
training exercise for his second mission to the
North Pole from
Canada,
in winter
2017, perhaps the last of its kind due to the rapidly melting
ice.
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That
North Pole mission was dramatically aborted due to severe frostbites. In
2021,
Sebastian will
undertake
to complete mission, purporting to be the last team in history to reach
the pole from land. As an international speaker on climate crisis,
Sebastian has been featured on television and radio (
Larry King Live,
CBS, NPR, Air America) and has addressed audiences at the United
Nations, the
COP21 in Paris, the World Affairs Council, the General
Assembly on Climate in
New Orleans, the
George Eastman House, Hewlett
Packard, Google Headquarters, VF Corp and to Apple’s Senior Design Team
amongst others. He has spoken at Universities, museums and embassies, as
well as international climate summits addressing the systemic
geopolitical consequences of climate change. In
2011, Sebastian founded
the
SEDNA foundation whose mission is to report from the front lines of
climate change. Sebastian is a regular contributor to Men’s Journal, The
Huffington Post, and
Al Gore’s 24 hours of
Climate Reality.
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In
2008, Sebastian was named
German GQ’s Man of the Year for environmental leadership. In
2009, he received the Founder’s Award from
Global Green USA, and in
2010 the Gala Award for his environmental stewardship. He was commended twice by the City of
Los Angeles, in
2005 and
2009, and received the
Green Good Design Award from the
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in
2014. In
2016,
Eckart Witzigmann and
BMW honored
Sebastian with the Eckart ‘
16 Award for Personal Engagement. In
2018,
Sebastian received the Medal of Light from Thailand’s cultural minister for “sustained excellence in the art of photography”. In
2018,
Sebastian followed in the footsteps of Jane Goodall and
Arnold Schwarzenegger when he received the Bambi award in
Germany, in the “
Unsere Erde” (“Our Earth”) category. In
2019,
French President Macron will knight Sebastian in the
National Order of Merit.
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He is a brand ambassador for Napapjri clothing and Herbalife. Past and current sponsors include
Hewlett Packard, REVO sunglasses (both as brand ambassador),
Canon, Lexar, MSR, Rossignol, Nemo, Ozone Kites, MSR, Organic Foodbar and Hilleberg tents among others. Since
November 2019 Sebastian is a friend of the Swiss watch manufacture
Ulysse Nardin and joined the brand’s armada of modern explorers known as “
Team of Ulysses” together with other free-spirited watermen:
Fred Buyle, Alex Caizergues, Mathieu Crepel, Sebastien Destremau, Ben Thouard and Alessia Zecchini.
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Sebastian has two daughters with his wife, Carolin. He is a member of the Explorer’s Club and the
International Glaciology Society, and currently lives between
Los Angeles and
Munich.
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Technical Specifications
Model:
DIVER X Antarctica Chronometer - 8.900 CHF
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Reference:
1183-170LE/90-ANT -
Titanium
Movement:
Caliber UN-118.
Dimension:
13 ¾ ’’
In-house designed movement
Escapement, patented
DIAMonSIL
Oscillator: patented inertial balance wheel with Silicium hairspring
50 jewels
Power-Reserve: approximately
60 h
Winding: self-winding
Functions:
H/M/Small second, date, power reserve
Chronometer
COSC with power-reserve indicator at 12’oclock
Small direct seconds and round date window at 6 o’clock
Forward and backward date corrector
Case:
Titanium
Diameter: 44 mm
Thickness: 13.40 mm
Bezel: Inverted concave unidirectional rotating white rubberized bezel
Crown: Screw down security crown, covered with rubber
Case back: Stamped with the route of the Vendée Globe
Water-resistance: 300 m
Dial
Grey face is marked with a bold and elegant “
X”
Strap
White rubber and pin buckle strap
Limited Edition: 300 pieces
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Press Release - 2019
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