Travessia GMT — made to order (50% deposit)

A titanium pilot's watch for long crossings.

£1,650 · Made to order in 2–3 months · 50% deposit (£825) to order, balance when your watch is ready

Travessia is Portuguese for a crossing — the long one, by sea or by air, where the hours at home drift away from the hours in front of you. This is the watch for that: local time on the hands, home time on a 24-hour flange read by a signal-orange arrow, and a sun compass when the instruments are packed away. Aim the orange hand at the sun with it set to local time and the north marker at 24 points roughly north.

The case is grade 5 titanium — the aerospace alloy, half the weight of steel and far harder — bead-blasted to a soft grey with polished chamfers on the lugs, 39 mm across and 11.9 mm thick including the double-domed sapphire. Broad lugs turn down to sit flat on the wrist; the 6.5 mm screw-down crown is signed with the Hagora symbol and sized for gloved hands. It is rated to 100 m.

The dial is matte and grained, with Arabic numerals printed in Super-LumiNova and the pilot's triangle with two dots at twelve. Sword hands are filled with the same lume; the 24-hour hand is arrow-tipped in orange, and the date sits at three on a disc matched to the dial. Turn the watch over and the solid titanium caseback carries a wind rose inside a 24-hour ring, engraved with your watch's number.

Inside is the Sellita SW330-2, the Swiss automatic GMT calibre: hours, minutes, central seconds, an independent 24-hour hand and date, 28,800 vph, 56 hours of power reserve, hacking seconds, and quick-set date and 24-hour hand from the crown. Each movement is regulated in our Bristol workshop before casing.

It ships on an olive waxed-canvas strap, leather-lined, 21 mm tapering to 18 mm, with a signed titanium pin buckle and quick-release spring bars.

Colourways

• Basalto — anthracite dial, as photographed
• Selva — deep green dial
• Glaciar — ice-grey dial

All three are built to the same specification; the photographs show the Basalto prototype.

Made to order

Travessia GMT is built for its owner after the order is placed. Allow 2–3 months from order to delivery; we confirm the schedule by email when the build starts and send a photograph of the finished watch before dispatch.

• To order: choose your colourway and pay the 50% deposit of £825 at checkout.
• When your watch is ready: we send an invoice for the remaining £825; the watch ships on payment, insured, delivery calculated at that point.
• Please note: because each watch is built to the customer's order, orders are firm once the deposit is paid and cannot be cancelled or returned. The two-year warranty covers any defect in materials or workmanship.

Specification

• Movement: Sellita SW330-2 Swiss automatic GMT, 25 jewels, 28,800 vph, 56 h power reserve, hacking, hand-winding; regulated in Bristol
• Functions: hours, minutes, central seconds, independent 24-hour hand, date at 3
• Case: grade 5 titanium, bead-blasted with polished chamfers, 39 mm, 11.9 mm thick, 46.5 mm lug-to-lug
• Lug width: 21 mm
• Crystal: double-domed sapphire, anti-reflective coating inside
• Caseback: solid titanium, screw-down, engraved wind rose and 24-hour ring, individually numbered
• Crown: 6.5 mm, screw-down, signed
• Water resistance: 100 m / 10 ATM — suitable for swimming
• Dial: matte grained, Super-LumiNova numerals, triangle and dots at 12, 24-hour scale on the flange with north marker
• Hands: lume-filled sword hour and minute, arrow-tipped orange 24-hour hand
• Strap: olive waxed canvas, leather-lined, 21–18 mm, signed titanium pin buckle, quick-release
• Warranty: two years
• Made in: Bristol, UK

Images show the Basalto prototype; the finished watch may differ in small details.