Similarly referential is the running indicator at 6:00. Lacking a sweep seconds hand, this functions as a means of telling if the watch is indeed running, a crucial component of a dive watch. The alternating white and colored arcs move behind the aperture on the dial. While the lack of a sweep hand doesn’t allow for accurately setting the watch, or timing decompression stops, the tradeoff is a clever visual element that actually references the Antikythera mechanism, that had a similarly prominent rotating disc. Once you see this, it is obvious, but even without any knowledge of its inspiration, it can be appreciated. The sanded surface of the dial itself is also a subtle nod to that archaelogical treasure, which was crusted with coral and centuries worth of corrosion. With the buttery marker color, sanded dial and unique running indicator, the Avyssos has a timeless, almost antique quality, somehow fitting its link to antiquty and its origins in Greece, the cradle, some say, of technology and culture.
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