On the occasion of the release of issue 50 of Plongez! in March 2024, the magazine teams up with the Swiss watchmaker ZRC to offer you a limited edition of 50 pieces.
The year 2024 will be a great year for the magazine Plongez! which will release its 50th issue in March-April! Nine years after the release of its first magazine, this fiftieth edition is an opportunity for the whole team to celebrate this anniversary with many events, projects, and activities spread over several months.
To celebrate the release of issue 50, Plongez! has thus partnered with the prestigious Swiss watchmaker ZRC to present you with a limited edition of 50 pieces of its famous Grands Fonds 3000 Titanium. The two models offered – satin or microblasted – are each limited to 25 numbered pieces (from 1 to 25 for the satin model, from 26 to 50 for the microblasted model).
Each watch comes in a navy blue stormcase with a PLONGEZ! Limited Edition coin badge, a disassembly kit and an additional navy blue rubber strap M 24 mm, a user manual as well as a 3-year warranty.
Swiss-made expertise
The SELLITA SW200-1 movement of the ZRC Grands Fonds 3000 consists of 26-jewel gears, on which an Incabloc shock protection has been used. Extremely precise, the balance wheel performs 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour. With a mechanism diameter of 25.6 mm, it offers a power reserve of 38 hours. The regulation is ± 7 sec/day (with an amplitude of ± 7 sec/day = from 0 to +14 sec/day) which provides extreme accuracy to the Grands Fonds 3000.
Reserve your model
This limited edition is available at a price of 4,290 €. The watches will be delivered in April 2024 during a special day organized by the magazine Plongez! and ZRC (or sent directly to those who cannot be present).
2024, the 120 years of the brand
ZRC watches indeed belong to the exclusive circle of those that one dreams of wearing on the wrist. It has taken four generations, and more than a century, to build the brand image, revealed to the diving world by the iconic Grands Fonds. The story began in 1904, when Edmond Zuccolo and Joseph Rochet partnered. The first was a workshop manager, the second was his first worker. When the first diving watch was made in the ZRC workshops in 1960, there were, among the workers, diving firefighters. Their advice to best adjust the first model to the needs of professionals was then valuable. It was then given a promising slogan: « Designed by divers for divers! » It was in 1964 that the ZRC Grand Fonds 300, in its final version, approved for the French Navy, was unveiled. Since then, the brand has continued to offer true gems of innovation that withstand even the most extreme conditions, having notably accompanied the adventurer Alban Michon during his polar explorations.
Find behind the scenes of ZRC in issue 39 of Plongez!