UTS 1000M Diver 10th year anniversary special edition model

To mark its 10th anniversary, the German watch making company UTS Watches has created a special edition version of its Bauhaus-styled UTS 1000M Diver watch.

Still offered in a 43 mm steel case and powered by ETA 2824-2 automatic movement, the model offers rugged, minimalistic design that makes almost a perfect tool watch.

What I really like about UTS is that they are not trying to look like something they are not.

I mean, there are dozens of brands that simply buy a “ready-made ” design of a timepiece from a specialized company, then outsource actual production to another specialized company, then buy a couple of hundreds of blank movements from ETA, or Selita, or La Joux-Perret, or even from some Chinese clone-maker, pack the resulting product in a nice wooden box and call themselves “watchmakers”.

More advanced brands of this kind limit their list of movement suppliers to Swiss-brands brands and assemble the timekeepers strictly in Switzerland in order to sell their timekeepers with the famous “Swiss Made” insignia that increases the product’s retail price by a factor of two.

The German-based UTS Watches doesn’t claim itself a watch manufacture.

Instead, they honestly say that their business is limited to getting good Swiss made movements and packing them into their own hand made cases with unique dials and hands.

In a sense, UTS to the world of watches is like Morgan to the world of cars: they are coachbuilders. And they are good at that.

The German company has at least eight models in its range, including a chronograph watch, but to mark its decade in business they have chosen the 1000M diver model.

The special edition version will be supplied with a Galvanic Black dial and its prominent bezel that houses a 3 mm sapphire glass, which is thick enough to withstand the 100 ATM of static barometric pressure, is outsourced from a more expensive 2000M Diver model.

Ditto the bright red second hand with a pair of strips of some luminescent substance.

Speaking of which, UTS says that they put a lot of it on the hour and minute hands, as well as on the indices, so the watch is very bright.

The timepieces will be sold in stainless steel and PVD-coated versions.

Prices are still unknown.

Images: UTS Watches

UTS 1000M Diver 10th year anniversary special edition watch’s specification:

Price range: N/A
Movement: Swiss ETA 2824-2, automatic
Complications: N/A
Power reserve: N/A
Case material: Stainless steel or PVD-coated steel
Case dimensions: 43 mm
Case height: 14 mm
Dial: Black
Water resistance: 1000 m
Strap: Stainless steel bracelet or black rubber strap
Crystal: Sapphire