The Solent 40 Pine
£5,800
Available
- Case
- 40mm Stainless steel 316L, brushed top surfaces, polished flanks, 11.8mm thick
- Dial
- British racing green with a fine sunburst radiating from the centre. The green reads deep in low light and opens up toward a warm emerald under direct sun. Applied polished-steel indices with aged Super-LumiNova. Date window at 4:30, matched green disc with white print. Same hand-set as the Midnight.
- Movement
- A&F calibre HF-301 (Sellita SW200-1 (Top grade))
- Power reserve
- 38 hours
- Water resistance
- 300m
- Crystal
- Flat sapphire, single internal anti-reflective coating
- Strap
- Brushed steel bracelet with diver's extension, or hand-stitched dark olive tropic-pattern rubber. Both supplied; quick-release springbars on each.
Heritage
The Pine was the second Solent variant, introduced a year after the Midnight in response to consistent enquiries. Harold resisted green dials for the first two years of the brand — too many makers were doing them, and doing them badly. He finally agreed to develop one on the condition that the green be unmistakably British rather than tropical. The sunburst and the depth of the base colour took four rounds of dial samples to settle.
Design
Harold's private test for whether a colour works on a sport watch: can you wear it with a navy jacket, a brown jacket, and a grey jumper without looking like you've thought about it. The Pine passes that test. Lighter greens — forest green, sage, olive — don't, in his view.