Description
MARITIME TRADITION MEETS MODERN TECHNOLOGY: LACO NAVY WATCHES.
Just like the aviator watches, the Laco maritime watches allow you to hold one thing in particular in your hands: a piece of history. Both the aviator watches and the maritime watches from Laco look back on a legendary past and a rich history. The requirements to start constructing them came from the German Marine Observatory in Hamburg, and only a few factories were able to fulfil them in the 1940s. Laco was one of those companies. Today's watches are still oriented toward the look of yesteryear in their appearance. Thus, with a maritime watch from Laco watch manufacturing you always have a piece of history made in Germany in sight.
Since the 1940s maritime pocket watches have been enabling sailors to perform nautical observations and measurements at different points on a ship's deck. Using these highly precise pocket watches, the exact time of the stationary time measuring station was transferred to the built-in ship's chronometer when in port - these then were the most accurate clocks at sea. The design requirements were established and inspected by the Marine Naval Observatory in Hamburg - from the dial and the hand through to the housing. The tests for resistance and the accuracy of the clock mechanism were also carried out by this institution, which was founded in 1887. Today's Laco maritime watches are based on the classic design that was once prescribed by the German Marine Observatory in Hamburg.
To ensure optimal readability even in darkness, in the 1940s the dials were additionally and completely fitted with active luminous material. This provided unique and optimal readability even in the dark. Today only inactive luminous paints are used on specific components, such as pointers or numbers. They become charged by light and exhibit an impressively long-lasting afterglow.
If the name is the agenda: the Superluminova C3 is offered specifically for the watch industry, and represents the consistent and extremely powerful further development of luminova. This luminous material is applied, for example, on pointers, numbers or markers, and its main feature is its long-lasting luminosity - in a characteristically evocative and powerful yellow-green hue.
Cuxhaven
In the light-colored version, our Cuxhaven model impresses with thermally blued hands and loving details reminiscent of the historical originals. A modern reinterpretation of maritime classics - Cuxhaven is as timeless as it is elegant.
Made in Germany.
MOVEMENT:handwinding movement Laco 261 bridges with Côtes de Genève, thermical blued screws, ratchet wheel and crown wheel with sun ray finish, ratchet wheel with engraved Laco Logo. Basic movement Sellita 261, quality level elaboré, second-stop function
CASE:stainless steel case with a polished and brushed finish, fluted bezel, anti-reflective sapphire crystal,
screwed case back with extra large sapphire crystal opening
DIAL:White in enamel optic, railway minute circle, arabic numerals and indexes with luminous material Superluminova C3, small second at 6 h
HANDS:Hour hand, minute hand and small second thermally blued,
hour and minute hand filled with Superluminova C3
STRAP:Light coloured leather strap, stainless steel buckle
BOX:Watch box incl. cardboard box
DIAMETER:39,0 mm
HEIGHT:10,0 mm
LUG WIDTH:20,0 mm
LUG TO LUG:46,0 mm
WATERPROOF:up to 10 ATM
WEIGHT:68,0 g (incl. strap)
ARM CIRCUMFERENCE:16,5 - 21,5 cm
