U-Boat celebrates success with U-47

After the success of the, available on the market at a revolutionary and appealing price range, Italo Fontana adds to the range a new version, also in 47 mm, in bronze.

 

The passion of the designer from Lucca for this material has solid roots. An ancient material like the history of mankind, a metal alloy resistant to corrosion is often used in arms and arts industry.

 

The idea of this uncoated metal eventually getting patina, unique to each timepiece, its ever changing state, evolving in different colours has always intrigued him so much and pushes him in doing research and using it in various creations as well as this new U-47.

 

Available with black dial, with indexes and spheres in beige super luminova, Swiss automatic mechanical movement, with time only and date functions, the watch features a back of the case in bronze, with special anti-corrosion treatment, as well as a bronzed glass that reveals its mechanics.

 

Featuring a strong personality, the U-47 Bronze boasts a calfskin strap made and finished by hand with ancient and traditional Florentine techniques.

 

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