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What’s a Clerciste?

Clerciste – /’klerist/: Owner of a CLERC watch and super-fan of the brand. Typically observed having fun in extreme under or above-water life activities with a Hydroscaph on his wrist. Derived from the French term, the anglicized version is pronounced with a silent ‘c’ as in “claire-ist”.

If you’re reading this, chances are you are already a Cleriste, or at least interested in becoming one. If so, you are part of an exclusive global community of successful, power-driven over-achievers who share the CLERC values:

  • Passion for exploration and discovery
  • Appreciation and respect for the oceans
  • Strong desire to protect and nurture aquatic environments
  • Love of quality, attention to detail, and extreme resilience
  • Confident in his abilities and equipment

If you’re an existing Clerciste and have some awesome Hydroscaph pictures to share with the world, why not share them with us on Facebook or Instagram? Use #clercwatches, #hydroscaph, and #clerciste for hashtags.

Want us to publish your cool CLERC pictures? Email them to us at openwater@clercwatches.wpengine.com.

Have a question or comment about your Hydroscaph? Come talk to us on Twitter. If you’d rather contact us directly, just email us at openwater@clercwatches.wpengine.com – we want to hear from you all.

From all of us at CLERC, we welcome you aboard, and we appreciate your support. 2015 will be a year of great innovation and surprises from CLERC, so stay tuned because there’s never been a better time to be a Clerciste!

As always, from our hearts and hands to your wrists.

Your CLERC team.

Welcome to Openwater!

Welcome to Openwater! This is your new CLERC blog.

Founded in 1874 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, CLERC manufactures powerful luxury exploration machines designed for extreme life conditions – the kind you find at 1,500 feet below sea level. At those depths, survival depends on uncompromising quality, precision, toughness, and reliability. This is how CLERC has been crafting watches for 140 years.

But on land and in everyday life, discerning luxury watch lovers expect comfort, elegance, style, and prestige.

So we said, why not have both? And set out to create a new breed of luxury watch called CLERC Hydroscaph. It combines raw power with pure luxury in a distinctly identifiable timepiece. And there’s nothing else like it in the world.

This blog is the story of these amazing exploration machines and the people who own them. We’ll be talking about the watches themselves, of course. But also about the craftsmanship and the manufacturing know-how it takes to design and build the CLERC Hydroscaphs. We’ll highlight our artisans, we’ll highlight you, our Clerciste customers and fans, and promote the CLERC way of life from all over the world.

We welcome your comments and suggestions on Facebook or Twitter. We hope you’ll enjoy our new Instagram presence, so come and follow us there too. And of course we welcome all comments on this blog.

Thanks for diving with us into this new exciting journey. We look forward to your participation!

Your CLERC team.

Meet the CLERC Hydroscaph H140 Carbon L.E.

UPDATE: The H140 is now available in Japan and the USA (Los Angeles, CA • Naples, FL • Scottsdale, AZ • Houston, TX).

140 years of innovation, and still pushing the boundaries of Swiss horology innovation. That’s the message behind CLERC’s latest addition to the Hydroscaph family, the all new Hydroscaph H140 Carbon Limited Edition.

This new anniversary Exploration Machine sports an exclusive CLERC C608 central-display chronograph movement and a high-tech Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC)-coated case with a unique CCFC carbon composite construction. A first in precision horology.

CCFC-like composites have been used in competition sailing, aeronautics, and Formula 1 racing applications. It’s a brand new material developed and produced exclusively for CLERC in Switzerland.

Composed of multiple 30 micron ultra-thin carbon fibre layers, CCFC is injected with resin and deposited in multiple layers, each weave at 45° from one another. After subsequent heating, the material is easier to machine than any other composite, allowing all sorts of creative high-precision manufacturing possibilities

Carbon CCFC is ideally suited for state-of-the-art technologies. Besides its unequalled toughness, CCFC is also aesthetically pleasing because the weaved carbon layers create mottled effects giving each case a unique and distinctive character.

Here’s a quick technical run-down of the H140:

MOVEMENT
•    Exclusive C608 automatic central chronograph movement
•    51 jewels, 28’800 vib/h
•    Hand-finished bridges
•    44-hour power reserve

CASE
•    CCFC carbon and black DLC steel
•    Grey Super-LumiNova
•    103 component construction
•    Dimensions: 44.6 mm/ 49.6 mm including lateral protectors
•    Piano-key pushers for chronograph control
•    Rotating bezel with C|CLIP locking safety
•    Expandable lugs
•    dual pin fastening technology
•    4.0 mm glare-proof sapphire crystal
•    Dual-port exhibition case-back
•    Water resistant to 500 meters

STRAP
•    Vulcanized rubber
•    Louisiana alligator
•    Cordura

DIAL
•    Black with cool grey SuperLuminova applique markers
•    60 second counter at center
•    60 minute counter at center
•    Day and night / 24hours indicator at 9 o’clock
•    Small second counter at 3 o’clock
•    Date window at 6 o’clock

The H140 comes with three strap options including vulcanized rubber, Louisiana alligator, and cordura. Roll out to retail locations worldwide started this week.

Discovering the CLERC Hydroscaph

The CLERC Hydroscaph is a new breed of Swiss luxury watches. How do you craft one?

You take high-tech materials, engineering know-how, and innovation to new levels giving it raw power. You then wrap this power inside the style, comfort, and elegance pure luxury requires. This marriage creates distinctly identifiable timepieces called “exploration machines”. This is the world of Hydroscaph.

Inspired by the deep oceans, these machines are designed to explore the most extreme conditions of life – above or under water – in unequaled safety, comfort and elegance. And there’s nothing else like them in the world.

Yet choosing your CLERC Hydroscaph is very simple. The stopwatch version with a C608 self-winding central chronograph movement, or the COSC-certified C609 self-winding chronometer version. Both movements beat inside the industry’s toughest and most sophisticated hand-finished watch cases with either high-density steel, black Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC), or 18K gold/black DLC steel finishes.

All Hydroscaphs are ergonomically designed for maximum performance, reliability, and comfort. Attention to detail is prevalent from the pushers, the lockable rotating bezel, the expandable lugs, the extra-thick sapphire glass, to the exhibition case-backs. And on some models, CLERC watch straps are interchangeable between vulcanized rubber, hornback crocodile, and Louisiana alligator in a vast array of amazing colors.

So no matter what model or reference you end up owning, you’ll always be ready to explore in style with a CLERC Hydroscaph.

From our hearts and hands to your wrist.