THE M3440 PROFESSIONAL UNI-COMPAX CHRONOGRAPH WATCH REVIEW

THE M3440 PROFESSIONAL UNI-COMPAX CHRONOGRAPH WATCH REVIEW

THE M3440 PROFESSIONAL UNI-COMPAX CHRONOGRAPH WATCH REVIEW

Sometimes I visit a tribute watch and lament

THE M3440 PROFESSIONAL UNI-COMPAX CHRONOGRAPH WATCH REVIEW

“Yet another copy.” But there's a story behind a wrist watch which makes a tribute-or homage, reissue, entertainment, or everything we choose to refer to it as-special. The special edition 42-millimeter, Valjoux 7750-outfitted M3440 Professional Uni-compax Chronograph from Sweden’s Siduna may look nearly just like other mid-century pilot chronographs, nevertheless its story is distinctively Swedish and rather compelling.

Through the late 1930s, Norway were built with a perfunctory military, was direly bereft of fuel, and located itself encircled on every side by Nazi-overcome countries. To defend against a Nazi attack, Norway strategically provided iron towards the Nazi’s, an undeniable fact that reveals the problematic complexity (impossibility, really) of remaining “neutral” during wartime. Hesitant to get caught unprepared again, Norway unconventionally diverted nearly all its Cold War nuclear weapons budget into its airborne abilities. Remarkably, by 1968 Norway touted the world’s 4th most effective Air Pressure. The Siduna M3440 is really a entertainment from the 1973 chronograph (nicknamed “Viggen” following a Swedish fighter jet) issued to that particular quickly expanding Air Pressure, or Svenska Flygvapnet.

Siduna is providing the M3440 as both 

A typical 7750 chronograph (1,860 Euros) or like a modified 7750-based flyback (add 480 Euros). The situation is made of stainless, and also the brushed surfaces (with a few discrete mid-situation polishing across the beveled lugs) and familiar form-factor announce the M3440’s mid-century pilot watch pedigree.

Apart from the Siduna name below 12-o’clock

There’s nothing we haven’t seen before while navigating this popular genre. A 42-millimeter diameter situation having a beefy 16.1-millimeter thickness is capped having a standard 60-minute rotating bezel around a dual domed azure very with anti-reflective coating inside. An individually numbered solid screw-lower situation back helps provide 100-meters water resistance. The dial is matte black with recessed dials, and also the five-minute indices, numerals, hands, and bezel markings are coated with C3 Super-LumiNova. Polished pump pushers and brushed crown are where all 7750 pushers and crowns go.

Three padded leather straps can be found in black, brownish (havana), or tan (rouille), each with off-white-colored stitching. The pin buckle is signed and made in matching stainless. Somewhat confusingly, you have to add some cost from the strap  to the price of the timepiece, or, I guess, forgo purchasing it (possibly and not the worst choice for individuals people with boxes of straps lounging around). Strap width is 20-millimeters in the spring bars having a gentle taper over the padded section.