Elton Octogone

Welcome to the year 2049: Octogone, our retro-futuristic watch. Its steel version is aimed at the more classic among us. Here, we've optimized the immense potential of this Kelton model from the late 70s. Firstly, by redesigning its case, now equipped with a Seagull 1632 automatic day/date movement. Its Superluminova-treated hands (hours and minutes) have become luminescent, and last but not least, we've used a sapphire crystal, so this little automatic bombshell can now withstand pressures of up to 10 ATM.

Since the question of the future has haunted cinema, Octogone has been the shape of just about every object to come. Hence the wave of octagonal models that appeared at the end of the Space Age decades (70s), from a large number of watchmakers including Kelton, of which there are hundreds.

Where does this octagonal shape come from? Why do we keep coming back to it? As M. Singh explains in his illuminating article: Pieces of eight: watches celebrating the octagonal form. The success of Octogone is due to the fact that when you combine the two most common watch shapes, circle and rectangle, you obtain an octagonal shape by following the contours of the circle as closely as possible. The octogone is thus a shape born of the association of two elementary forms, and in this sense, it embodies the idea of the future.

Features:

• 40 mm brushed stainless steel case
• Seagull 1632 automatic movement
• Day/date window
• Sapphire crystal
• Water-resistant to 10 ATM
• Superluminova hands
• Raised hour-markers
• Engraved stainless steel screw-down caseback
• Lug: 20 mm
• Nato strap nylon khaki steel buckle
• Watch designed and assembled in France.