Manta (dive watch)

Key Messages for Stand Visitors

  1. This is our Manta - a fully custom made guilloché dive watch for everyday use...in a range of colours to suit your varying clothing, occasions & moods!
  2. But it's not just just some of the special features like the 3D colour-coded guilloché dials & the internal rotating colour-coded bidirectional bezels...
  3. 10% of the profits are being donated to charities helping children & young people in need around the world. No other watch brand globally is believed to donate more than this (as a percentage of profits) from sales on all their watches.
  4. Our business is named after two brave British men, Edward & Christopher, who each saved a child's life, with one of them paying for it with his life. And there's even more behind our brand than this.
  5. Our twofold mission is to (1) build the most beautiful coloured everyday premium & luxury watches at affordable prices...and (2) for a beautiful purpose. That purpose is to help 1+ million children & young people in need around the world by donating 10% of our profits to charities helping them.

Inspired By The Manta Ray

The watch's name is inspired by the beguiling elegance, distinctive beauty and other eye-catching qualities of the Manta Ray. Because…Mantas are truly special.

They're giant, charismatic geniuses. Mantas have huge brains - the biggest of any fish - with especially developed areas for learning, problem solving and communicating. They're playful, curious and are also friendly to humans.

Manta - USPs & Key Points

  1. Fully custom made (designed from scratch) 40mm dive watch
  2. 3D guilloché (pronounced: guee-oh-shay) style colour-coded dial
  3. Swiss self-winding mechanical movement (Sellita SW200) with time hacking (the second hand can be stopped for setting the time...to the second)
  4. Rare bidirectional internal rotating bezel (operated by the 2 o'clock crown)
  5. Two colour-coded emblem-topped crowns
  6. Loaded with Super-LumiNova (the substance that makes key watch elements glow in the dark): The watch markers are made from blocks (yes, blocks) of blue-green Super-LumiNova. No sparse Lumi lines with our watches!
  7. Colour-coded and branded quick-release FKM rubber (very strong & durable) straps
  8. Power reserve: 38 hours (how long the watch will keep going after last being wound or moved).
  9. Water resistant to 200m/660ft
  10. Scratch-resistant sapphire crystal (the glass covering the dial) with a triple-coated anti-glare coating - on both sides.
  11. Time hacking: Yes (the second hand can be stopped for synchronising)

Technical Specification

  • Case diameter: 40mm
  • Case thickness: 11.30mm
  • Case material: Marine grade stainless steel 316L
  • Case construction: 4-piece marine grade stainless steel with a screw-down case back
  • Bezel: Internal rotating bi-directional bezel, in aluminium, with the numerals illuminated by a blue-green Super-LumiNova BGW9 luminance for easy reading in low light
  • Crowns: The case is fitted with two colour-coded embled-topped crowns, and both are fitted with triple O-ring waterproof gaskets. Hence the water resistance depth capability. The 2 o'clock crown operates the internal rotating bidirectional bezel and is operated by simply twisting the crown clockwise or anticlockwise. And the 4 o'clock crown changes the time (with time hacking) using a very simple and easy to use push-pull mechanism.
  • Crystals: The flat scratch-resistant sapphire crystal is triple coated with anti-glare coating on both sides...and is fitted with hidden O-ring gaskets
  • Dial: The colour-coded dial is painted with a hydraulically stamped 3D kaleidoscope guilloché style pattern with applied indexes which are illuminated by blue BGW9 lume 
  • Strap: Custom made quick-release 2-piece FKM vulcanised rubber strap with 2 keepers fitted with a branded stainless steel buckle. Fits wrist sizes: 13cm-20cm.
  • Movement: Swiss Sellita SW200-1 (26 jewels) self-winding mechanical movement
  • Power reserve: 38 hours
  • Time hacking: Yes (second hand can be stopped for synchronising)
  • Water resistance: To depths of 200m/660ft (20ATM)
  • Hands: Custom made hands painted matt black and white illuminated by a blue-green Super-LumiNova BGW9 luminance for easy reading in low light
  • Lug length: 47.60mm
  • Lug width: 26.18 mm
  • Weight: 119g

Manta - Front

Guilloché style dial of Forest Green Edward Christopher Manta luxury watch, dive watch & sports watch from Edward Christopher watch shop

3D Guilloché Style Dial

Coloured-coded 3D guilloché (pronounced: guee-oh-shay) style kaleidoscopic dial design

Hands

Cathedral style design

Dial Ring

Moves both ways as part of the internal rotating bidirectional bezel (when operated by the 2 o'clock crown)

Markers

Made from blocks of blue-green Super-LumiNova (to glow even more vividly in the dark)

External bezel (fixed)

Watch Case

Made from 316L marine grade stainless steel

Crown (2 o'clock)

Moves both ways to operate the internal rotating bidrectional bezel

Crown (4 o'clock)

Changes the time (and winds the watch movement): pull-in & out...and not a screw-done crown

Manta - Back

Forest Green vulcanised rubber strap and buckle & watch case back on Edward Christopher Manta luxury watch, dive watch & sports watch from Edward Christopher watch shop

Keeper (branded)

Keeps the straps neatly contained so they don't stick out and get in the way

Keeper

Keeps the straps neatly contained so they don't stick out and get in the way

FKM Rubber Strap

  • Custom made & branded colour-coded quick-release strap in FKM vulcanised rubber (very strong & durable) with stitching
  • Fits (men's & women's) wrist sizes (circumference): 13cm - 20cm

Quick-Release Strap (mechanism)

Buckle

Custom made (with Edward Christopher engraved on it)

Case Back (Screw-Down)

FAQs

A Swiss Sellita SW-200 automatic (self-winding) movement...with time hacking (the second hand can be stopped for synchronising).

The parts come from various countries, from Europe to Asia, and are assembled in the UK.

The parts come from various countries, from Europe to Asia, and are assembled in the UK. So, like the vast majority of watch brands, from independents to established luxury makes, some parts will come from China.

Also...

  • UK exports to China (e.g. cars, medical & pharmaceutical goods): £30 billion per year
  • UK imports from China (e.g. consumer electrical goods, furniture, clothes & toys): £56 billion per year

  • USA exports to China (e.g. cars, medical & pharmaceutical goods): $195 billion per year
  • USA imports from China (e.g. consumer electrical goods, furniture, clothes & toys): $560 billion

Good question! An industry leading 5 year intentional warranty (this is more than nearly all other watch brands).

It launched (properly) in March 2024.

It was co-designed by a British watch designer & watchmaker and the owner Seán.

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