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RALF TECH ABSOLUTE WATCHES

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Image 8Focus on some pieces of the collection
Powerful, racy, iconoclastic, the WRX immediately inspires respect and admiration. With a diameter of 47.5mm and
with a 5.9 mm sapphire crystal, it is immediately in line with the trend for professional instruments in
indicating a maximum depth of 400 meters real for the E-Matic and Automatic models and 300 meters,
always real, for the Automatic Chronograph model.
As in cars, the neophyte and the enthusiast will find their happiness by combining “bodies” with
engines” and “finishes” which are all visual signatures. The WRX is therefore available in a total of
in 30 versions for a budget ranging from 960€ to 3850€.

The WRX Automatic Chrono
The WRX® Automatic Chrono watches combine the experience of a powerful and stylish watch in a single case
of the world record and the traditional “Swiss Made” watchmaking know-how. Highly efficient, they are
with their solidity and readability, made for adventure under… and on the water. The nobility of their movement
(RTAC001 on 7750 “Valjoux” base) brings them distinction and reliability.

A brand from the professional underwater industry
The RALF TECH® brand was born in 1998 from the passion of its creator, Franck Huyghe, for the ocean in general and diving in particular.
underwater in particular. Deliberately high-end and technically advanced, the brand became in a few years
only one of the major players in scuba diving, equipping the national navies of several European countries,
the most recognized pros and all those for whom diving rhymes with quality.

Performance and reliability
But Franck Huyghe cultivates a second passion: watchmaking. In July 2005, a diver broke the world record for
depth in autonomous diving suit at – 330 meters under the surface. He is equipped that day with the RALF TECH®WR1 watch
number 001. A first series of 500 identical automatic watches was then marketed and met with enormous success.
success with divers and collectors.
On February 22, 2008, a few days before the opening of Baselworld 2008, the Basel Watch Show, a new brand of
watches is born: RALF TECH ABSOLUTE WATCHES®. New adventure, new goals, new team… but
an unchanged passion driven by an unchanged will: to seek the best and strive for perfection.

A passion and men
RALF TECH ABSOLUTE WATCHES® is first and foremost a story of passion. The brand brings together, around Franck
Huyghe, who leads the design, a team of talented watchmakers, multidisciplinary engineers, saddlers
representatives of extreme sports, all passionate about their discipline and mobilized around a common project: designing,
to develop and test watches of very high quality, with an innovative design and an impeccable mechanism.
Dedicated exclusively to watchmaking, equipped with an ultra-modern research center including an underwater chamber
allowing simulations and full-scale waterproofing tests down to 500 meters, the RALF TECH
ABSOLUTE WATCHES® is dedicated to the research and development of innovative watchmaking solutions.
The particularity of RALF TECH ABSOLUTE WATCHES® is that they indicate depth values
and not theoretical. The ISO 6425 “diving watches” standard is not only respected but also exceeded
by our exclusive evaluation and control process.

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