The date window at 4:30 has a moulded border around to step down suitably to the date wheel. The seconds hand has a red top to introduce another colour and a rounded cylindrical shape as the counterweight. The borders are fully polished – but also pitched – to ensure they produce an array of reflections. The minute and hour hands are an aggressive, angular dauphine shape. The hour hands are a thin trapezium shape and are strong, bold and legible.
They’re all filled with lume – even the logo at 12 – with a polished border around the edge to catch the light. The applied elements are all deep and clearly well manufactured. It also has a minute track and 24-hour numerals printed on in crisp white font. The layered and textured deep rehaut has the applied elements embedded within – I like seeing touches of detail like this. On top of this texture, you’ll find little raised plaques for the printwork – “Victorinox” in the top half, and “Automatic” in the bottom. It’s meant to imitate a Swiss officers knife handle, and offers tremendous depth to the dial as well as distributing light reflections deftly. The key feature of the dial is the cross-hatch guilloche texture. I’ve not seen it before on a more “affordable” watch, so it’s good to see the precautions Victorinox are taking. This must be something to do with security and ensuring authenticity.
VICTORINOX AUTOMATIC WATCH SERIAL
I found it interesting that there were two small QR codes on the caseback when scanned they both returned the serial number. The screw-in caseback has an exhibition window showcasing the movement, with various specifics engraved around it. It’s better than average and does a good job of creating a crisp, clear view of the textured dial below. The flat sapphire crystal is triple-coated with anti-reflective coating on the underside. The Victorinox logo is deeply and accurately embossed on the end. No doubt they’ll keep it superbly protected, but they do hinder access and the ability to screw/unscrew it easily. The crown is a little hard to get to, due to the gigantic crown guards. I like the angular and arrayed finish, in fact, I think it’s the highlight of the case – if it was a standard steel bezel then it would be pretty plain but the collection of reflections keeps the eye busy. However, scratch resistant doesn’t mean dent resistant as I’ve unfortunately got a tiny ding by 1. There are no scratches yet, therefore so far so good, but time will tell. They’ve managed this by applying a clear DLC coating on top of the steel, an interesting and effective solution. The bezel has an anti-scratch coating and looking at it, it looks no different. The case main doesn’t excite too much however, the eyes are certainly drawn towards the angular bezel. The height of 13.5mm and lug to lug length of 53mm is in no way small – in fact, I’d say you need at least a 7” wrist to pull this beast off. It certainly wears at 43mm, maybe even larger due to the tall slab makeup and thick lugs (sometimes a case can wear a bit smaller due to its shape).
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