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# Baltic Gives the Hermétique a Glowing Dial for an Icelandic Gravel Race, Adds 34mm Option
- URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/baltic-gives-the-hermetique-a-glowing-dial-for-an-icelandic-gravel-race-adds-34mm-option/
- Published: 2026-10-08T14:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T14:08:00.000Z
- Author: Vuk Radic
- Tags: News

Most watch brands sponsor sailing. Or golf. Or vintage car rallies. But Baltic isn't most watch brands. They're sponsoring a gravel bike race across Iceland's lava fields, which says a lot about who buys Baltic. Or at least their ideal customer. As timing partner for the seventh running of The Rift, with close to 900 riders on the start line, it made 400 Hermétiques to mark the occasion. The bigger news is on the spec sheet: the Hermétique now comes in 34mm.

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Both sizes are made out of brushed 316L steel with a polished bezel that surrounds a double-domed sapphire crystal coated against reflections on the inside. Both also have 150 meters of water resistance. The 37mm has a lug-to-lug of 46mm and 20mm wide lugs. The 34mm drops to a lug-to-lug of 42.5mm and 18mm lugs. Thickness is listed at 10.8mm, of which 8.3mm is case and the rest is dome. That's a tall crystal, but better the crystal than the case. The crown is tucked into the case flank, so it won't dig into the back of your hand.

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The whole dial glows. A matte white luminous center sits inside a forged carbon chapter ring, with two thin polished steel rings marking the boundary. Applied indices in BGW9 and C3, each 0.5mm thick, cross that boundary, and the polished syringe hands are filled with BGW9\. At night this will be very hard to beat for the money. The carbon is also a nice touch, since the vast majority of gravel bikes these days are made out of carbon. 

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Inside is the Miyota 9039, automatic, running at 4Hz with 42 hours of power reserve and hacking seconds. It's the no-date version of Miyota's 9000 family, so there's no dead crown position. I wonder how shock resistant that Miyota is, but since Baltic will strap these watches to competitors wrists, I guess we'll see how it survives a race on gravel terain. It comes on a grey-blue vulcanized FKM rubber strap.

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/10/Duo-Herm--tique-The-Rift-10.jpg)

The Baltic Hermétique The Rift is priced at €620 before tax, limited to 400 examples, with deliveries from October 21\. A matching jersey and bib shorts are sold through Isadore, and a hand-painted Specialized Diverge frameset is available on request from Baltic. Damn, that's cool. See more [on the Baltic website](https://baltic-watches.com/en/products/hermetique-the-rift?variant=59986117067136&ref=itsabouttime.email).