Design origin
Michael Reef, the fifth generation descendant of Reef Tiger, has been in Seattle for some time when traveling around the world. Seattle is the largest city in the northwestern United States, the simple and elegant atmosphere here is the inspiration of Reef Tiger Seattle series. The inspiration of Seattle Space Needle watch is from the local landmark – Space Needle. The silhouette of this building is presented on the dial, which exudes a refined and elegant temperament, it is the perfect endorsement of an independent and open-minded man.
Design highlights
1.Space needle silhouette dial
The inspiration of this watch is from Seattle’s famous landmark Space Needle, the central location is the cloud-kissing spire, the whole dial is the overlook silhouette of Space Needle. To reflect sense of the future of Space Needle, the unique grainy dial seems to let people see the vast bright stars.
2.Hands with three different colors
Seattle Space Needle has red, yellow, blue hands options, which echo with the color of seconds scales. Interestingly, these three different colors only appear on minute and second hand, which ensures that the watch fits Seattle’s elegance, but won’t lack interest of space future elements.
3.Unique date window
Unlike the single date of other business watches, the date window of Space Needle could show three dates of yesterday, today and tomorrow, so you can grasp the passage of time and every second currently, able to face future challenges and opportunities leisurely.
4.Special crown system design
The crown of Space Needle uses three kinds of design, the radioactive screw threads at the bottom reflect space sense of the future, the top polished and smooth handling fits the business spirit of Seattle series, the outstanding gear design in the middle part brings comfortable using feeling.
5.Crown shoulders
Generally speaking, the protecting shoulders of crown are usually seen on diver’s watches, to reflect the future spirit of Space Needle, the watch is designed to feature crown shoulders, which fit the unique crown well, the graceful arc perfectly wraps up the whole crown, the shoulders and crown are seamless, which brings the perfect experience.
6.3-link stainless steel band
To match the space sense of unqie grainy dial, the band of Space Needle uses 3-link design, the middle part is brushed and two sides are polished, the brushed lines are straight and orderly, the polished parts are shiny as a mirror.
Exquisite technology
1.Spark corrosion dial
The dial of Space Needle is processed with spark lines, three layers of copper plates are used as dial mould, the uppermost copper plate is then corroded by electricity and forms granula in same size, so the dial gives people the sense of starlit sky.
2.Swiss lume – more expensive than gold
Space Needle is a lume watch, its hands and hour markers are all filled with Swiss luminous material, the price of one kilogram of Swiss luminous material is 380,000, which is much more expensive than gold. Of course, the common lume material can not achieve such brightness and sustainability.
3.CNC technical case
The case of all Reef Tiger watches is processed by CNC technology, which usually takes double time than that used to process an ordinary case. Every detail is excellently made, the side, chamfers and arc are clear.
4.Polished band
Each link of Space Needle band is treated in mill, even in the tiny place that connects two links, they are also rounded and smooth, totally fits your wrist. The bevel edge of the middle brushed links is processed by special machine independently, so that it ensures the gradient and arc of each bevel edge exactly the same.
