Archimede 1950'S watches

The Archimede 1950 series is a set of steel watches with a date at 3 o'clock, built around a curved dial and curved hands for what Archimede calls a clean vintage aesthetic. Archimede belongs to Ickler, a family company that Karl Ickler founded in Pforzheim in 1924 and that the fourth generation now runs. Every Archimede, the 1950 included, sits in an Ickler case developed and made in-house in Pforzheim.

The two core models differ mainly in size and movement. The 1950-1 (references starting UA8069) has a 39 mm steel case, 9.8 mm thick and 44 mm from lug to lug, and Archimede's current version runs on the Citizen automatic calibre 9015 with water resistance of 3 ATM. The 1950-2 (UA8068) is the 40 mm version with the same 9.8 mm thickness and 44 mm lug-to-lug. Archimede now fits it with the Swiss Sellita SW 200-2 automatic in its Power+ form, with a 65-hour power reserve, a domed sapphire crystal and 5 ATM water resistance, and offers a hand-wound SW 215 as an upgrade. Both take a 20 mm strap.

Within each model the choices are dial and strap: a silver or black dial, on a black or brown leather strap or a steel mesh bracelet, with a BM in the reference marking the mesh-bracelet versions. Archimede also makes the 1950-2 with two-tone hands and indexes, and the series now includes a 1950-3, a 1950-4 and a more compact 37 mm model.