U-Boat Watches were first devised in 1942 and were meant to be a sequence of timepieces intended for the Italian Air Force and U Boat officers., they were created to be unbreakable and unproblematic to translate in any circumstances.
Italo Fontana, the brain behind these watches, knew precisely what was wanted but, when he was getting ready to set his ideas into practice, the political circumstances of the time blocked him from going ahead. Fontana had already gathered drawings, samples and a lot more creative material which he had to care for for sixty years. With the original color samples, drawings and innovative materials that the present-day could give, in 2000, a reletive of his finally launched the Uboat watch collection, so Fontanas designs finally became reality. The watches are now amongst the most sought after in the field.
Nov 29