Favre Leuba
Chief Date
$2,950
The Deep Raider Day Date is the latest addition to Favre Leuba’s Deep Raider Renaissance collection, and it builds logically on everything the line has established since the collection was reintroduced in 2024. The 40mm stainless steel case is the same familiar architecture, water resistant to 30 ATM, with brushed and polished finishing and a ceramic bezel insert. What changes is the dial and the function it carries. At three o’clock, a day and date display joins the Deep Raider’s specification for the first time, with the day readable in either English or German, a language setting the watch carries forward automatically from one day to the next.
The gradient dial format moves from saturated color at the top through progressive darkening toward six o’clock, a visual transition that reads simultaneously as a design statement and a quiet reference to the movement of light across a day. A choice of four dial colors are available, salmon, green, blue, and burgundy, each fading to near black at the lower register. The sandwich construction adds physical depth to the layout and gives the day and date window a more substantial presence on the dial surface than a conventional applied ring would allow.
The movement powering the Day Date is the self-winding FLD05 caliber, developed on the Sellita SW220-1 base, adjusted via crown rotation in opposite directions for date and day respectively. The three-link bracelet, with polished center links and brushed outer links, is tool-free interchangeable with the rubber strap options from other Deep Raider Renaissance references, making the Day Date a more adaptable watch than its dive credentials alone might suggest.
