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Time Leaves Its Mark
Eberhard & Co. introduces bronze to the Scafograf 200 MCMLIX, creating a dive watch designed to change with time and with the person wearing it.
While some materials are chosen because they resist time, bronze is interesting precisely because it records it. For the new Scafograf 200 MCMLIX Bronze Edition, Eberhard & Co. has introduced bronze to two of the watch’s most distinctive elements: the bezel and crown. Against the stainless-steel case, black ceramic and black dial, the warmer metal immediately changes the character of the Scafograf.
But this is a contrast that will not remain exactly as it is on day one. Exposed to air, humidity and salt water, bronze gradually changes in surface, color and brightness, developing the natural patina that protects the metal and gives each piece its own appearance. On a watch created for the water, that feels particularly appropriate.
A story that started in 1959
The relationship between Eberhard & Co. and the sea goes back further than the Scafograf itself. As early as the 1930s, officers of the Italian Royal Navy were regularly presented with an Eberhard & Co. chronograph as a distinctive symbol of their role. The Scafograf collection followed in 1959, becoming one of the clearest expressions of Maison’s connection with the marine world.
The Scafograf 200 MCMLIX carries that history forward in a contemporary 39 mm format, while retaining visual references to the original model. Those references remain present in the Bronze Edition.
Round and triangular applied indexes structure the black dial, while the distinctive triangular tip of the hour hand recalls the configuration of the first Scafograf from 1959. Bronze-colored polished outlines introduce the material’s warmer tone across the dial without actually turning the entire watch into bronze.
That distinction matters. Rather than covering the watch in the material, Eberhard & Co. has used bronze selectively.
Bronze, steel and black
The 39 mm case remains stainless steel, with a satin finish and polished profiles. The bronze appears on the unidirectional rotating bezel and screw-down crown, creating a contrast that is reinforced by the bezel’s black ceramic insert. On the bezel, bronze-colored details are joined by vintage-inspired luminescence across the first quarter of the minute scale.
The same combination continues on the dial. Against black, the bronze-toned outlines of the indexes and hands become more pronounced, while vintage-inspired luminescence reinforces the historical references. A peripheral minute track is laser-engraved around the dial.
The result is warmer than the usual language of the steel dive watch, but still recognizably Scafograf. And because only certain components are bronze, those elements will gradually develop their own patina against a steel case that does not change in the same way. The watch will not simply age. Its contrasts will evolve.
Still a Scafograf
The material may be the novelty, but the functional codes of the collection remain intact. The Scafograf 200 MCMLIX Bronze Edition is water-resistant to 200 meters and equipped with a unidirectional rotating bezel with a diving-time scale, a screw-down crown and an automatic helium escape valve at 9 o’clock. A domed sapphire crystal receives an anti-reflective treatment on its inner surface.
Even the part normally hidden from view receives its own detail: the screwed stainless-steel caseback carries the Scafograf starfish in 5N gold-tone PVD and inside is an automatic mechanical movement with a Glucydur balance and central seconds.
Beyond the water
There is another shift happening here. Dive watches were historically defined first by function, and their aesthetic naturally followed. The Scafograf 200 MCMLIX Bronze Edition retains those technical characteristics, but Eberhard & Co. is also deliberately pushing the model towards greater versatility.
Three configurations make that particularly visible. The watch can be paired with a black water-resistant leather strap with a vintage appearance and bronze-colored stitching, a new steel Milanese mesh bracelet, or the sportier Chassis® steel bracelet.
Each changes the personality of the same watch. On leather, the bronze and black combination brings out its more vintage character. The Milanese bracelet gives the watch a different kind of elegance, while the Chassis® keeps it closer to the overtly sporty side of the Scafograf.
It is still a watch equipped to go underwater. It simply no longer needs the water to explain itself.
A material that remembers
Eberhard & Co. unveiled the Scafograf 200 MCMLIX Bronze Edition in connection with the Genoa International Boat Show 2026, where the Maison serves as Official Timekeeper and, for the fifth consecutive year, uses the event to celebrate its longstanding relationship with the sea.
That setting gives the choice of bronze another layer. Its resistance to corrosion makes it naturally connected to the marine environment. Its tendency to develop a patina makes that relationship visible. A scratch, salt water, humidity, air… over time, the surface responds to all of them.
Most watches are designed to tell us how much time has passed. This one lets some of that time remain on the watch itself.
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