Aquis Yangtze Jiangtun Limited Edition Watch 01 733 7789 4197-Set

We’re delighted to introduce the new Yangtze Jiangtun Limited Edition. The watch has been produced with our new partner, China’s Changjiang Conservation Foundation, which is working to study and conserve the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. This is a performance watch with a real purpose. The story of the partnership is told through a number of special details found in the watch. Most prominent is the dial, which is crafted from a blue-green mother-of-pearl, a material chosen because of the way it captures and reflects light like the surface of the Yangtze River.

Mother-of-pearl is a delicate, brittle material prone to cracking, but using a precise printing process, we’ve added a wave pattern to it, inspired by the echo sound waves of the Yangtze finless porpoise’s highfrequency, narrow-band ultrasonic clicks, which it relies on for communication and navigation in the river’s cloudy waters.

The story continues on the case back (see pages 8 and 12), with engravings of a Yangtze finless porpoise and the limited-edition number, from 1 to 1,249, representing the number of the aquatic mammal thought to be left in existence.Behind these is the Aquis Date 43.50 mm, our high-performance, highly versatile contemporary dive watch. It has a stainless steel case and tapered three-link metal bracelet, lumed hands and hour markers, a uni-directional rotating bezel with a tungsten insert and minutes scale, and a screw-down crown with protection. It’s waterresistant to 30 bar (300 metres) and runs on an automatic Swiss Made mechanical movement.