In early '06 I was introduced to Günter Steinhart in order to help him out with his watch designs. Basically just producing some photoshop mock-ups of his upcoming watches and proof-drawing some dials. It didn't take long until i showed him some of my designs, which led him to comission me to design a professional dive watch for him. The result is the TRITON, which will hit the consumer market in the first quarter of 2007.
There will be two dial options that not only differ in color, but also in the dial-layout. At 45mm diameter without the screw-down crown, this will be a huge chunk of stainless steel. Further specs include a water-resistance of 300 meters (approx. 1,000 feet), a thick saphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, 24mm lugwidth, a date at 6 o'clock and a 60 clicks uni-directional rotating bezel. The automatic movement (Sellita SW200), as well as the watch are, of course, swiss made.
Congratulations on your design almost coming to product. I've just become interested in watch collecting from http://www.bestdamnwatchforum.com/viewforum.php?f=54 (this is the link to the Steinhart forum on the site) and was really struck by your design. Judging from what I see on the Steinhart site, it looks like they are only going to produce the top design both in black and in orange. Personally I like this design better but they are both quite nice.
Posted by: Mark Rosneck | May 16, 2007 at 09:38 PM
Hi Mark, glad you like the Triton's Design. You can get the orange dial watch as pictured above from the Steinhart headquarters in Germany: http://www.steinhartwatches.de/index.php?id=13&sitename=TRITON
The site is in german only so far, but you can get in touch directly with Günter Steinhart via this site, he's very friendly and helpful.
I don't know why the US branch decided against the original orange dial as designed by me. But since it will be produced nonetheless, I don't really care either.
You may want to read the discussion regarding the Triton on WUS that i started in November '06: http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=36960
Posted by: Simon Schmidt | May 16, 2007 at 11:22 PM
That's interesting that they're producing both but only selling one in the U.S.
I read the Watchuseek board which is where I originally found your name which ultimately is what led me to your blog.
Congratulations again. I'm interested to see what the price turns out to be.
Regards,
Mark
Posted by: Mark Rosneck | May 17, 2007 at 12:31 AM