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Baltic made the Scalegraph swim

Screw-down pushers, a reworked 316L case and 100 metres of water resistance. The hand-wound Sellita SW510-M and the 63 hour reserve stay where they were.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 3 min read · 9 August 2026

Baltic has reworked the Scalegraph, and the headline change is gloriously dull. It's got screw-down pushers and 100 metres of water resistance. A hand-wound chronograph you had to keep away from the kitchen sink was always a slightly awkward thing to own.

The Scalegraph has been one of the better-looking chronographs under 2,000 euros since it launched. Now it's one you can stop worrying about.

The pushers screw down, and the case was redrawn around them

Baltic says the 316L case has been completely reworked to take the new sealing. It measures 39.5mm across, 47mm lug to lug and 14.1mm thick, on 20mm lugs, under a double-dome sapphire with anti-reflective coating on the inside. The bezel is aluminium with a tachymeter scale, and the crown is engraved.

Fourteen millimetres is tall for a 39.5mm watch. That's what a hand-wound chronograph movement and real gaskets cost you, and 47mm across the lugs stops it eating a smaller wrist.

Baltic's own line is that the Scalegraph now asserts itself as a sports watch, and for once the marketing and the spec sheet agree. Screw-down pushers are the difference between a chronograph you baby and one you wear in the rain without thinking. Everything else on the case is unchanged in character: the same proportions, the same restraint, the same refusal to put a date window anywhere.

Metallic grey, with beige guilloche in the subdials

The grey version runs a metallic grey finish with light beige guilloche subdials, which is a warmer combination than a photograph on a phone will show you. Hour and minute hands are polished steel dauphines. The round index on the minute track and the hands carry Super-LumiNova BGW9, so the lume sits on the parts you read at night instead of being scattered over the dial for effect.

The anti-reflective coating sits on the inside of the double-dome sapphire only, which is the right way to do it. Coating the outer face looks lovely in a studio and scratches in your pocket.

Sixty-three hours, and you wind it yourself

The movement is the Sellita SW510-M, a hand-wound chronograph calibre with 63 hours of reserve and a stop seconds. Manual winding on a chronograph at this price is a choice, and it's the right one. It keeps the case thinner than a rotor would, and you're fiddling with a chronograph anyway.

Sixty-three hours means you can take it off on Friday evening and it will still be running on Monday morning, which is the practical test that matters for a manual watch. The crown and the pushers are engraved, a small piece of finishing most brands at this money skip.

Seventeen hundred euros on the beads of rice

Baltic lists the Scalegraph at 1,700 euros on its beads of rice bracelet, with a vulcanised FKM rubber strap and an Italian calf leather strap offered as alternatives. Three dials are available: grey, blue and champagne. Baltic sells in euros and there is no Australian price.

Grey's the one I'd take. Blue is the safe pick and champagne will probably age best, but the beige guilloche in the subdials does something against the grey that it doesn't do against either of the others.

If you looked at the old one and stopped dead at the water resistance, go back. Everything that made it worth a look is still there.