Favre Leuba’s Most Versatile Diver Gains a Two-Tone Edition

The Deep Raider Day Date has become the most versatile watch in Favre Leuba’s revived dive collection, a 300-metre diver built to earn its place on the wrist every day of the week. Until now it has been an all-steel affair. The latest edition changes that, arriving in a two-tone finish whose yellow-gold PVD accents warm the diver’s familiar tool-watch language into something you might just as easily wear to dinner.

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The case is 316L stainless steel, 40mm across and 12.5mm thick, water-resistant to 300 metres and finished in a mix of brushed and polished surfaces. What sets this edition apart is the gold. Applied through a physical vapour deposition process, the yellow-gold treatment lands on the crown and bezel, and on the central links of the integrated bracelet, lending the watch a glow the all-steel version never reaches for. The unidirectional bezel carries a ceramic insert with a 60-minute dive scale, its markers gold-finished to match. The bracelet keeps Favre Leuba’s tool-free interchangeability, so the two-tone steel can give way to any strap from the Deep Raider Renaissance line in seconds.

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The dials come three ways: a solid black, and blue and green versions that fade to darker tones at the edges, the gradient lending real depth to the face. Gold-treated hands pick up the case detailing, as does the Favre Leuba hourglass at six o’clock. Underneath sits a sandwich construction with a full lume base layer, so legibility holds when the light drops. The elongated indexes and the day-date window at three o'clock carry over from the earlier edition.

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Inside is the self-winding FLD05 calibre, based on the Sellita SW-220-1, running at 4Hz with a 38-hour reserve and 26 jewels. Turn the crown clockwise to set the date, anticlockwise for the day, which can be displayed in English or German, a preference the movement remembers thereafter.

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The Deep Raider name reaches back to 1964 and the original Deep Blue, the watch that laid the groundwork for the brand’s modern divers before its 2024 revival. This two-tone Day Date is the latest chapter in that story.

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