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 lie of the land accelerates the wind until it becomes a physical mass — hard and tangible. Tarifa began as a fishing outpost lashed by storms, but in the eighties a tribe of windsurf pioneers discovered that this climatic anomaly was the ultimate canvas. Today the cove of Valdevaqueros is Europe’s capital of the wind, and the Hydra Serie 229 carries that extreme resilience into mechanical watchmaking: steel, 200 metres and a legibility conceived to read the hour through the spray