The Diet Baytona
Titoni’s new Baytona competitor is the Seascoper 300 Chronograph, and it seems pretty likely the brand’s designers took a peek at Tudor when penciling the watch’s lines.
Like the Black Bay Chrono, the Seascoper Chronograph features a bicompax layout with a 1/4-second minute track, a black-on-white date window replacing the index at 6:00 and the two chronograph registers that delete the indices at 3:00 and 9:00.
The indices are round and applied, with silver surrounds and white lume — just like on the Black Bay Chrono. The 12:00 index is trapezoidal instead of a Tudor triangle, offering some distinction between the brands.
The stainless steel case is 42mm across, slightly bigger than the 41mm Tudor, and thicker at 15.5mm compared to Tudor’s 14.4mm thickness. But with that increased size comes an increase in water resistance, from 200 to 300m.
The screw-down pushers recall the Baytona, as does the oversized crown, which features an engraving of Titoni’s plum blossom logo. The Baytona also features a flower on its crown: the old-school Tudor rose logo.