Laco Squad Watches

Laco Squad Watches are the Pforzheim brand's sports and outdoor line, a family that sits beside its pilot's, dive and dress watches. The Squad models are not built for one job: they are general-purpose tool watches for active use outdoors, all with black dials.

In 2018 Laco showed four 42 mm Squad models at MunichTime: the Himalaya (862106), Amazonas (862107), Atlantik (862108) and Mojave (862109), known as the Scorpion series and carrying a scorpion relief on the solid, screw-down caseback. They share a steel case rated to 30 ATM with a screw-down crown, a double-domed sapphire crystal, a black dial with white Arabic numerals and a unidirectional bezel with a ceramic insert, and they take a 20 mm strap. Super-LumiNova covers the indexes, hands and bezel. What separates them is the accent colour: green for the Amazonas, blue for the Atlantik, orange for the Mojave, while the Himalaya keeps it to an orange minute hand. At launch Laco used its Laco 24 automatic, based on the ETA 2824-2; the current Atlantik 42 runs on the Laco 200 automatic, based on the Sellita SW 200.

In the references, the MB suffix marks the steel bracelet with folding clasp and the RB suffix the rubber strap, so the 862108.MB is the Atlantik on steel. The cases are about 13.5 mm thick.

The Ocean (861704) and Seven Seas (861703) are 46 mm Squad models that were already in Laco's range when the Scorpion four arrived. The Atacama.2 (861632.2) is another 46 mm Squad watch, 14 mm thick.