With Baselworld 2018 right around the corner, there are plenty of new watches to discuss. One that has already caught our eye is the Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon, which has the distinction of being the brand’s first-ever dive watch.
The Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon
This isn’t the first time a tourbillon has been included in a dive watch ? both Richard Mille and MB&F have done it before ? but it’s still a rare look and speaks to the sort of high-concept horology that Angelus has strived for since it was brought back to life by Manufacture La Joux-Perret (now owned by Citizen) in 2011.

The 45 mm watch is made of titanium and has two screw-down crowns; the one at 4 o’clock controls the time and the one at 2 o’clock controls the interior uni-directional rotating bezel. Opposite the crowns is a helium escape valve allowing the watch to reach saturation-diving depths of up to 300 m. The skeletonized dial has a polychromatic aesthetic. Blue and yellow lacquer dominate the interior bezel, hands, and seconds subdial. The indices and the middle of the hands feature white SuperLuminova. The caseback of the Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon

The Angelus team spent four years of R&D building the A-300 Caliber specifically as a skeleton instead of opting for a  cut-out version of an existing movement. This allowed a greater reduction in total weight which, aided by the titanium case, helps make the watch quite lightweight overall while still appea...