WITH
THE HYPERBAR® DEEP DIVER SYSTEM SWISS DIVER WATCHES
REACHES DEPTHS OF 12’000 METERS / 39’600
FEET
At
first sight it seems to be impossible that a watch
could reach a depth of 12’000 m / 39’600
feet. You may have recognized already that the inside
of the HYPERBAR® watch except a more or less small
bubble, is completely filled out with a liquid. More
precisely, all the components, including the movement,
are plunged in this liquid.
Only
the patented filling system (patent no. CH686989B5)
makes this incredible durability possible, tested
and certified by the SATI - Swiss Association for
Technical Inspections, test report no. 114’937/1.
Besides,
the HYPERBAR® Deep Diver System is based on a
simple physical principle, which starfish and sea-urchins
are making use of for millions of years already: the
incompressibility of the liquid. These aborigines
of the sea are consisted of a texture, permeable to
the water surrounding them. That means: The pressure
from the outside will be equalized by the same pressure
from the inside, equivalent a force zero, which for
the starfish and the sea-urchin means not more and
not less than surviving in a few thousand meters /
ten thousand feet.
Adapting
this system into a wrist watch seams to be relatively
simple, nevertheless it took us years of research
and development until the realization. One of our
major tasks was to choose, test and harmonize very
carefully all the different components and materials.
Besides, for the case of the HYPERBAR® watch it
was of course impossible to be permanent as a starfish.
That means we had to mix a liquid which A was stable
under all conditions and B at the same time digestible
for all the material and components.
The
result you find in the Hyperbar watch! A mixture based
on oil, replacing almost all the air in the watch
case. Just a small bubble (O < 5 mm) is remaining,
moving visible over the dial most of the time. It
is kept as an extension chamber and is getting smaller
in the heat respectively bigger in the cold. It can
happen, that the bubble is invisible. In this case
it is moving behind the dial or, due to big heat-influence
(warm water, direct sunlight), it is practically dissolved.
Moreover the liquid filling does not affect the precision
(± 15 Sec./month) of your watch. The slightly
higher resistance of the watch hands will be compensated
by the rate adjustment, the movement is equipped with.
Also, tests in our laboratory proved that the consumption
is within the scope of „empty“ quartz
watches. The insulating effect of the fluid prevents
craw streams and the possibility of a short circuit
in the movement, hereby an eventual increased consumption
(caused by the higher resistance) will be compensated.
In
addition, other very salient advantages are resulting
for the watch thanks to this HYPERBAR® Deep Diver
System:
-
Excellent readability at all angles because the light
does not get broken by the crystal and the disturbing
reflections are falling away. At the same time the
fluid acts as a magnifier.
- Higher corrosion-resistance for all the parts inside
the case due to the oily liquid.
- Reduced wear out of the movement due to permanent
lubrication.
HYPERBAR®
- THE WORLD RECORD WATCH |
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