Antarctic 35mm Salmon, a hand-wound dress watch limited to 100 pieces
The Antarctic 35mm Salmon is a 35 mm stainless steel watch with a domed salmon sunray dial, Art Deco numerals and a hand-wound Landeron 21 movement. Nivada Grenchen made it as a limited edition of 100 pieces, and it now has its place in the Retrospective of our limited editions.
The dial is the centrepiece: salmon, domed and sunray brushed, with shiny silver applied steel indexes. Art Deco-style numerals sit at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock, and arrowheads mark the other hours. Instead of the usual luminous dots, curved, slightly orange luminous arcs are painted on the outer edge of the hour markers.
The steel hands are in the classic dauphine style, each with a slim luminous band, and the long seconds hand is in blued steel. "Nivada Grenchen" is signed below 12, "Antarctic" above 6, and a discreet "Swiss" sits on the minute track. Discover the other dials in our Antarctic 35mm collection.
Turn the watch over and you find a closed steel caseback with an embossed, stylised penguin on a gold medallion, a nod to the Antarctic's heritage. The first Antarctic was introduced in 1954/55; read our complete guide to the Antarctic collection.
As the trend for oversized watches fades, the Antarctic returns to the basics: a slim case, clean proportions and finishes made to be looked at closely.
Case
35 mm, 316 stainless steel, polished and satin-brushed, 10.1 mm thick with crystal, 41.9 mm lug to lug
Glass
Double-domed sapphire crystal
Dial
Salmon sunray brushed domed dial, silver applied indexes, Art Deco numerals, dauphine hands, blued seconds hand
Movement
Landeron 21, manual winding, three hands, no date
Water resistance
50 m / 5 ATM
Strap
Racing strap, leather strap, Tropic rubber strap, flat link or beads of rice bracelet, 18 mm
The case is 316 stainless steel, polished and satin-brushed, 35 mm across and 41.9 mm from lug to lug. It is only 7 mm thick, or 10.1 mm including the double-domed sapphire crystal, so it slips easily under a shirt cuff. The watch is water resistant to 5 ATM.
Inside is the Landeron 21, a manual-winding movement that drives three hands, with no date. A few turns of the crown each day keep it running, a small ritual that connects you to the watch.
FAQs
Hold the watch and turn the crown gently clockwise, between your thumb and index finger, until you feel it resist. Do not force it past that point. On the Antarctic 35mm Salmon, which uses the hand-wound Landeron 21, winding it at the same time each day keeps it running.
A manual winding watch has a mechanical movement that you wind by hand with the crown, instead of a rotor that winds it as you move. The Antarctic 35mm Salmon uses the manual-winding Landeron 21, which keeps the case thin: only 7 mm, or 10.1 mm including the crystal.
No. 35 mm is the original size of the 1950s Antarctic, and smaller watches are coming back as the trend for oversized watches fades. With 41.9 mm from lug to lug, the Antarctic 35mm Salmon sits well on small and medium wrists and slips easily under a shirt cuff.
