Universal Genève Polerouter Broad Arrow "No Rad" Blued steel hands

Blued steel hands

The Bezelmeter is its most ambitious proposition: a pilot's chronograph with a rotating bezel carrying degree markings for navigation calculations

The orange-tipped arrow hands and matching indices still read against it — a testament to the quality of the original construction

No two are ever alike

The dial is where this reference makes its strongest impression: oversized Arabic numerals run the full circumference

Universal Genève Polerouter Broad Arrow "No Rad" Blued steel handsThe Polerouter was born from a remarkable engineering brief: in 1954, Universal Genve was asked by SAS to create a watch for pilots flying the new polar routes between Europe and North America, flights that subjected mechanical movements to magnetic fields far beyond anything encountered on conventional routes. The result was the calibre 215, the world's first automatic movement specifically designed with anti magnetic protection, developed by a young