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August 14 2024

Delma Unveils 100th Anniversary Montego With Exclusive Ice-Blue Dial

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Delma is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and to mark this milestone it presents a limited edition Montego with an ice-blue dial.

The watchmaking brand that began producing chronographs in the 40s currently has four collections of this type of timepiece, including Klondike, Continental, Oceanmaster and Montego, the latter focusing on a Tri-Compax chronograph that until now had four models and eight variants now add the exclusive ice blue edition.

The new Montego, which is similar in every way to its siblings, embraces a round stainless steel case with dimensions of 42mm in diameter and 16.20mm in thickness, features a brushed finish on the surfaces and polished on the bevels, tachymeter metallic bezel, straight lugs end, sapphire crystal on both sides, screw-down crown at 3 o’clock with two dedicated pushers and 200m water resistance.

The blue dial has a sunray-brushed effect where we can find a 30-minute counter at noon, a 12-hour register at 6 o’clock and a running seconds counter at 9 o’clock, all with a black frame that matches the background of the day-date windows close to the crown. Applied hour markers and Dauphine hands filled with Super-LumiNova, a minute/second track next to the edges, a chronograph centre second-hand with a red tip and the brand’s lettering and logo sided its founding year.

The open case back reveals the Sellita SW500 automatic movement based on the Valjoux 7750 with 25 jewels, reaching 28,800 Vph and offering up to 2 days of power reserve.

The watch is attached to a Jubilee-type 5-link steel bracelet with an alternating finish between brushed on the side links and polished on the central links with a folding clasp.

It is a limited edition of 100 pieces that honour the brand’s 100 years and can now be purchased for €2,727.95.

Celebrating A Century: Delma Unveils Heritage Chronograph 100 Years

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The Swiss watchmaking brand Delma, which celebrates a century of existence this year, continues the celebrations with an edition of the Heritage Chronograph 100 Years.

The watch follows the model introduced in 2021, focusing on a busy retro dial with several scales and registers.

On the outside, the watch wears a round case in polished stainless steel in vintage style but with contemporary dimensions, 43mm wide, 15.70mm high and 51mm long, smooth bezel, sapphire crystal, fluted crown at 3 o’clock and two pushers, open case back and 100m water resistance.

The black dial features a sunburst finish, big Arabic numerals outlined in orange which, like the syringe hands, are filled with luminescent material, 12-hour, 60-second and 30-minute counters at 6-9-12 o’clock which in position next to the crown are replaced by two day-date windows with a matching background paired between the brand’s logo and its founding year “1924”. It also presents three scales near the edges, headed by a white tachymeter, an intermediate orange telemeter and a white minute/second, lastly, a polished chronograph centre seconds hand with a spear-shaped counterweight.

Inside it runs the 25-jewel ETA Valjoux 7750 automatic movement reaching 28,800 Vph and offering up to 2 days of power reserve.

The exclusive Delma of just 100 pieces comes attached to a black leather strap with orange stitching and a steel folding clasp that can be purchased at the brand’s online store for €2,900.

Delma Marks 100 Years With New Midland Sport-Chic Watch

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The Swiss watch brand Delma, which this year celebrates a century of existence, is the most recent entry into the competitive sport-chic market with an integrated bracelet born in the 80s that has gained great relevance in recent years among enthusiasts.

The name chosen for the new Midland watch has a long history and therefore carries the weight of this responsibility, having appeared for the first time in the middle of the 1940s to debut Delma’s first chronograph, becoming a reference in its universe of sports watches, today it returns writing a new page in the brand’s history, embracing one of the latest market trends.

The watch arrives in a stainless steel case with an integrated bracelet, coin-edge bezel, a guilloché dial, automatic or quartz movement and in six colour options.

The new Midland thus embraces a round case with dimensions of 40.50mm in diameter, 10.80mm (automatic) / 9.50mm (quartz) in thickness and 47mm lug-to-lug distance, which comes with a brushed finish on the surfaces and sides, and polished on the bevels. A fluted bezel, sapphire glass, recessed crown at 3 o’clock, open-through case back in the automatic version and in steel in the quartz one and 100m water resistance.

The watch offers six colour options on the dial, black, white, blue, light blue, salmon or green, which comes with a beautiful pyramid guilloché pattern, applied polished hour markers, faceted hands filled with Super-LumiNova BGW9, a centre seconds hand with a red tip, a date window with a white background next to the crown and a minute track printed in black or white matching the inscriptions of the brand at noon and the movement in the automatic version at 6 o’clock.

Inside we find either the 26-jewel Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement that runs at 28,800 Vph and offers up to 41 hours of power reserve or the 3-jewel ETA F06.111 quartz movement whose battery has a useful life of approximately 3 years.

As we have already mentioned, the watches come attached to an integrated 3-row bracelet with a mainly brushed finish and folding clasp with the brand’s signature, arriving at affordable prices of €690 for the quartz option and €1,250 for the automatic.

Our Opinion

The advantage of not being the first to enter the market is that it allows us to learn from the mistakes of the pioneers and Delma seems to have studied the lesson well even though she is the most recent rookie in this competitive market.

The new Midland exudes charm, and the brushed case with the coin-edge bezel combined with the guilloché dial is perfect harmony and a delight for our eyes, also the colours chosen for the dial seem to leave no one out.

Unlike other brands that chose to differentiate the dials of the automatic and quartz versions, Delma opted for another path, maintaining symmetry between the two models, which seems very good to us, in conclusion, we liked it.

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