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Eterna KonTiki Date

Eterna KonTiki Date

Named after Thor Heyerdahl’s most famous raft, the KonTiki line represents the ’sports’ branch in Eterna’s current collection. The new Eterna KonTiki Date model, which is coming in a stainless steel case, is essentially an affordable version of the last year’s red gold KonTiki Anniversary model.


Eterna KonTiki Date watch

Although much cheaper, the Eterna KonTiki Date with its stainless steel body and the white dial with blue indices and Arabic numerals, looks even more appealing than the Anniversary model.

The differences, however, are not completely visual. While the Anniversary edition was delivered with Eterna’s own 3010 caliber, the new watch is powered by the Sellita SW 200 automatic movement. Being a slightly modified clone of the ever-popular ETA 2824 movement, this little engine is used by such watch companies as the Swiss Oris, and the German Limes and MarcelloC.

Simply put, every third “Swiss Made” watch comes powered by a Sellita-made movement, so I wouldn’t worry about KonTiki Date’s inferiority to the gold model. In fact, the watch with Sellita’s movement may prove to be even more reliable than its more exclusive predecessor.

Eterna KonTiki Date watch (dial, detail)

Eterna KonTiki Date watch’s specification :

Price range: N/A
Movement: Sellita SW 200, 26 jewels, automatic
Complications: Date
Power reserve: 38 hours
Case material: stainless steel
Case dimensions: N/A
Case height: N/A
Dial: White, with a guilloche pattern
Water resistance: N/A
Strap: Canvas
Crystal: Sapphire




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April 7th, 2009 by der Uhrmacher

Posted in Swiss Watches



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2 Responses

  1. Bones

    I bought an Oris Big Crown last Friday (4 days ago) and it has gained around 10 seconds. I think that is very good. The rotor works beautifully and although not a ‘fancy’ looking movement it looks very well finished.

  2. Martin

    Founder of 5 ball bearing on rotor and used to produce great in-house movement, sad to see that Eterna battle the losing game in term of new product development.

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