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Mühle-Glashütte gives the Sportivo Power Dive a reserve worth watching

A turquoise dial, a clearly separated minute hand and an UP/DOWN display put practical information at the centre of Mühle’s latest diver.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 2 October 2026

• Mühle-Glashütte adds the Sportivo Power Dive to its sports collection, pairing a diving bezel with a useful power reserve display at six o’clock.
• The 42.5mm steel case houses an automatic SW270-1, while the turquoise-and-black dial distinguishes its arrowhead minute hand with a different luminous colour.
• European prices are €2,850 on rubber or leather-and-rubber, and €3,100 on a steel bracelet, with orders carrying a stated five-week lead time.

A reserve indicator on a diving watch can look like another thing competing for attention. This one makes a fairly persuasive case for itself. Before you trust a mechanical watch to keep running, it helps to know how much energy is left, especially when its maximum reserve is measured in hours rather than several days. Announced on 1 October, Mühle-Glashütte's latest Sportivo puts that information below the hands, alongside a turquoise dial and a proper rotating timing bezel. It is the Mühle-Glashütte Sportivo Power Dive.

The reserve display is at six o'clock, with the German AUF and AB markings for up and down. Mühle calls it an UP/DOWN indicator, and the movement offers up to 41 hours when fully wound. I like the decision to leave this mechanical information in plain sight. It gives the dial something useful to do beyond looking suitably aquatic. There is a date at three as well, so this remains a watch for everyday wear rather than a piece whose entire personality depends on your next holiday.

An arrow worth noticing

The minute hand is the detail that wins me over. Its large arrowhead immediately separates it from the hour hand, while the applied hour markers give the turquoise-and-black dial a firm outline. Mühle coats the hands and markers with Super-LumiNova, and specifies a different luminous colour for the minute hand. That is a thoughtful distinction on a watch intended to time a dive. The reserve display sits lower in the visual order, where it belongs, leaving the minutes and the bezel to do the urgent reading.

The dial's colour moves from turquoise into black, so the brighter area brings some life to what could otherwise be a very earnest instrument. In the brand's photographs, the seconds hand and small details around the reserve display pick up that colour too. I prefer this to turning every surface into a nautical reference. The black ceramic bezel insert and largely restrained lettering keep the watch coherent. There is enough happening here already; the reserve indicator deserves some space around it, rather than another scale squeezed into the same dial.

Steel, sapphire and a useful bezel

The brushed and polished stainless-steel case measures 42.5mm across, 12.5mm high and 50.2mm from lug to lug. Those are substantial proportions, and the last figure is the one I would keep in mind when deciding whether to try it on. Diameter alone cannot settle that question. The crown screws down, water resistance is rated to 30 bar, and the sapphire crystal is 2.2mm thick with double antireflective treatment. There is also an exhibition caseback, giving this fairly businesslike front a view into the automatic movement.

The bezel turns counterclockwise only and carries a ceramic insert. Its one-way action has a straightforward purpose: an accidental movement should not suggest that more time remains than actually does. The arrow on the minute hand makes sense beside that bezel, rather than being a shape chosen purely for character. I would still want to feel the bezel and crown in person before forming a judgement about their operation. The dimensions and photographs tell us what Mühle has built; they do not tell us how those controls feel with wet hands.

Forty-one hours, made visible

Inside is the automatic SW270-1 in Mühle's version, with the brand's woodpecker-neck regulation, a date and a stop-seconds function. The company also fits its special 2026 rotor to new models manufactured this year. That rotor marks three decades of Mühle wristwatches, which began in 1996, two years after the company was founded to make marine chronometers and ship's clocks. The anniversary detail is on the movement side, a pleasing place for it when the dial already has several practical jobs to carry out.

Forty-one hours is not an extravagant reserve, and displaying it does not make it longer. What the indicator changes is how much guesswork the owner has to do. That matters to the appeal of this particular watch: it offers a visible answer rather than asking you to remember when you last wore or wound it. I would choose that modestly useful complication over extra dial text any day. The movement, the timing bezel and the prominent minute hand give the Power Dive a clear set of priorities without requiring the design to become austere.

Mühle-Glashütte Sportivo Power Dive pricing and availability

The Sportivo Power Dive costs €2,850 (rubber or leather-and-rubber strap) and €3,100 (stainless-steel bracelet), including taxes in Mühle's European store. The strap references are M1-52-53-200-KB and M1-52-53-200-LK, while the bracelet version is M1-52-53-200-MB. Both straps use steel buckles and screw-fastened bars; the bracelet has screw-fastened links and a safety folding clasp with length adjustment. Orders carry a stated five-week lead time, and the models can be ordered through Mühle's online store.

For me, the rubber version is the convincing expression of the idea. The reserve display adds something the owner can use, without taking over a dial whose most important job remains showing the minutes clearly. The turquoise brings enough colour to keep that purpose from looking joyless. Plenty of diving watches can make an imposing impression in a photograph; the more interesting achievement here is giving every part of the display a reason to be there, right down to that extra hand at six.