Eterna Adventure watches

Eterna Adventure covers Eterna's sports watches: mostly the KonTiki family, plus the Tangaroa. The KonTiki name comes from Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, a 101-day voyage on a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu islands. Eterna, founded in Grenchen in 1856, released its KonTiki collection in 1958 as a tribute to that expedition. The crew is said to have carried water-tight Eterna sports watches, after which Eterna branded its sports watches Kon-Tiki, although a watch guide by Reyne Haines notes that crew correspondence, film and photographs show no wristwatches being worn.

The Super KonTiki is the diver of the group. Reference 1273.43.41.1365, from the Super KonTiki collection Eterna presented for Baselworld 2015, has a 45 mm tonneau-style case with a large rotating bezel, is water resistant to 200 metres and runs on a Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement. That black version is limited to 888 pieces.

The core KonTiki watches are 42 mm steel models: the Date, the Chronograph, a Quartz Chronograph and the Four-Hands, mostly with black dials and also in silver, grey, blue and green, on a bracelet or a strap. The Royal KonTiki GMT and Royal KonTiki Chronograph are larger, between 42.25 and 44.7 mm. The Tangaroa sits apart from the KonTiki line, with Three-Hands models and a 32 mm Tangaroa Lady with a white mother-of-pearl dial.