The wind
that gave the watch
its name

The Strait of Gibraltar is a geographical funnel: a corridor where mythology placed the Pillars of Hercules and where the terrain accelerates the wind until it becomes a physical mass, hard and tangible. Tarifa began as a fishing enclave battered by storms, but in the eighties a tribe of windsurfing pioneers discovered that this climatic anomaly was the ultimate canvas. Today the bay of Valdevaqueros is the wind capital of Europe, and the Hydra Serie 229 carries that extreme resilience over into mechanical watchmaking: steel, 200 metres and a legibility conceived to read the hour amid the spray