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Serie-A Stradale: a meca-quartz movement in a neo-vintage inspired chronograph

Actually, this product does not fit into our digital TOURBILLON platform TICK-TALK. Being a child of the fifties, I naturally love fifties design. For example, a neo-vintage style timepiece like Depancel

Depancel launch the Serie-A Stradale: a timepiece with neo-vintage style and a hybrid meca-quartz movement. For a watchmaking brand inspired by the automotive world, this elegant and sporty new watch is a seamless addition to the Serie-A line designed for gentlemen drivers. Read on for more details about a collection that will take you back in time.

With this new product, Depancel is offering its community of enthusiasts a watch they can wear every day, with a neo-retro look that reminds the timepieces that marked watchmaking in the 1950s.

Serie-A Stradale thus features the large display and the glassbox of old chronographs, which allow you to admire the dial’s many details: a gradient effect recreating the patina of classic bodywork that’s stood the test of time, two large counters characteristic of retro watches that provide maximum readability and a combination of ultra-thin metallic numbers & hour markers for the utmost refinement.

Nero, Verde and Azzurro: each of the three versions is associated with a combination of retro measurement scales, while adding a sporty touch with its telemeter and central red, yellow or orange hand. Use the tachymeter to measure your speed and the telemeter to calculate the distance to a phenomenon you see and then hear.

Depancel designed Serie-A Stradale as an essential watch for fine mechanics lovers , so it retains the codes of the Serie-A range with its recognizable crown inspired by a radiator cap and its ultra-vintage, ergonomic mushroom pushers.

Technical characteristics

MOVEMENT Mechanism SEIKO VK64 meca-quartz chronograph movement

CASE Material: 316L stainless steel

Crystal: composite

Diameter: 39mm

Thickness: 11.5mm

Water resistance: 10 ATM / 100m

Alternate finishes: brushed / polished

Caseback: decorated with a wheel pattern

Dial: 3 scales (tachymeter, telemeter, minutes)

FUNCTIONS Hours, minutes, Chrono seconds (1/5s), chrono minutes, 24H function

STRAP Black or brown microperforated racing leather strap, Folding clasp or pin buckle

Lug: 20mm

PRICE €395 in pre-orders

www.depancel.com

ABOUT DEPANCEL

Depancel is a French brand that offers automatic watches at excellent value for money thanks to a co-creation and pre-order model. His mission is to put beautiful watchmaking on the maximum number of wrists, by offering timepieces made in Switzerland or France that come with a lifetime warranty.

Each of the Depancel collections (whose name is the contraction of Delage, Panhard et Facel Vega, three prestigious French car manufacturers), pays tribute to a specific territory of the automotive world and aims to inspire fine mechanics enthusiasts.

In 2021, Depancel invited its community to co-create the collection’s very first chronograph. The widely distributed questionnaire showed the team that there was an interest in a meca-quartz chronograph, a hybrid movement that combines the precision of quartz with the beauty of traditional watchmaking in the form of an automatic chronograph module.

The Serie-A Stradale has a Seiko VK64 movement, perfect for a watch that is both elegant and easy to wear. The combination of a quartz movement and an automatic module means the case is thinner (39mm for 11.5mm thickness) and very light.

Serie-A Stradale: an affordable watch to add to your collection with confidence! Just as for all other Depancel collections, it comes with a lifetime guarantee and pre-orders will be available for €395. This collection goes on sale at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 on the brand’s website: www.depancel.com

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About Karl Heinz Nuber

Nuber ist langjähriger Uhren Journalist und begann seine Karriere in den frühen 80er Jahren. Er ist Gründer des vierteljährlich regelmässig bilingual – Deutsch und English - erscheinenden TOURBILLON Magazin’s, der digitalen TOURBILLON Plattform TICK-Talk, der Ausstellungs- und Event Plattform Art of TOURBILLON und TOURBILLON TV. Er tritt regelmässig als Kenner der Branche in Erscheinung.

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