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# Squale Marks a Century of Galeazzi Deep-Sea Engineering With the Compact Artiglio
- URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/squale-marks-a-century-of-galeazzi-deep-sea-engineering-with-the-compact-artiglio/
- Published: 2026-09-17T13:06:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T13:06:53.000Z
- Author: Vuk Radic
- Tags: News

While Squale might not be a globally famous brand, their heritage is incredible. They've been making dive watches since the last 50s, spent decades supplying cases to other brands and made watches for many military units. They also work with civilian companies, as evident by the new Artiglio, its second collaboration with Italian underwater engineering firm DRASS Galeazzi, five years after the first. It marks 100 years since Roberto Galeazzi patented a pressure-resistant spherical structure in 1926, the technology that helped recover gold from the wreck of the SS Egypt at around 130 meters in 1932\. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/squale-galeazzi-artiglio-2.jpg)

The steel case is 39.5mm wide, 12.6mm thick and has a lug-to-lug of 47mm. It's made out of brushed 316L with polished bevels, topped with a flat sapphire crystal, and rated to 600 meters of water resistance. Those are skin-diver proportions with a professional rating, which is quite a cool proposition. On top is an unidirectional bezel with a flat K1 mineral glass insert in Pantone 295U blue, with BGW9 Super-LumiNova numerals.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/squale-galeazzi-artiglio-3.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/squale-galeazzi-artiglio-4.jpg)

The dial uses the same blue as the bezel. Above six o'clock sits a Wet Indicator, a humidity-sensitive disc that changes color if moisture gets into the case, a warning system found on some early professional divers that are an incredible and timeless look. The applied domed indices are filled with BGW9, there's no date, and the DRASS Galeazzi diving-helmet logo is printed on the underside of the crystal so it floats right above the indicator. How cool is that.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/squale-galeazzi-artiglio-5.jpg)

Inside is the ETA calibre 2824-2 in Elaboré grade, beating at 4Hz with around 42 hours of power reserve. It's unexciting, but any watchmaker can service it. It sits behind a solid caseback engraved with the Galeazzi logo. Squale includes two straps: a sand-colored fabric strap, and a textured blue rubber strap.

The Squale Galeazzi Artiglio is limited to 500 pieces, available now, priced at €1,890\. See more [on the Squale website](https://www.squale.ch/en/the-abyss-remembered?ref=itsabouttime.email). Btw, do check out that website, because it's extremely cool.