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Model reference: 5168G-010
A 42.2 mm Aquanaut with a khaki green embossed dial and a green strap patterned to match it, the date read at three o'clock in a case whose octagonal bezel mixes satin flats with polished flanks.
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About this watch
The Aquanaut 5168G-010 is a sports watch with a date and a 42.2 mm case, which the reference data gives as the largest case in the Aquanaut line. It carries a khaki green embossed dial and a green strap in the same tone, and the bezel is an octagon with vertically satin-finished flats and polished flanks rather than a plain round rim.
The four frames below are shown as they arrived, in the order they read: the dial straight to the camera, the case turned so the bezel flat and the polished flank both catch the light, then two closer looks at the crown with the strap and at the case from the side. Everything the pictures cannot settle — the metal of the case on the offered watch, the movement fitted in it, the strap that would arrive with it, its measured depth across the lugs and its weight, and its water-resistance state now — is put as a question in the WhatsApp list at the foot of the page rather than assumed here.
The 5168G-010 measures 42.2 mm across, and that figure is the top of the Aquanaut range: the reference data names it the largest case in the line. Anyone who has handled one of the smaller Aquanauts will find this one sits wider on the wrist, largely because a wide flat bezel spreads the watch out across the arm instead of building it up on top.
Diameter alone does not answer the fit. The distance between the lugs is what decides whether a case overhangs a wrist, and the weight of the complete watch decides how it carries through a day; neither figure is published for the watch offered, so both are worth asking for. Send your wrist circumference in centimetres, measured with a tape, with the question and the answer becomes concrete rather than theoretical.
The dial is khaki green and embossed, its surface divided into a grid of squares that sit slightly proud of the base so that light breaks across it in a way a flat dial never does. Applied Arabic numerals with a white luminous fill sit at every hour except three, where the date takes that position, and baton markers with the same fill run around the outer track.
The lettering is restrained: brand and city in two lines above the centre, SWISS MADE at the foot of the dial. There is no subdial, no printed minute ring and no register of any kind on this face. A single photograph of an embossed dial never shows the whole surface equally well, so the straight-on frame is the one to study first and a daylight version of the same view is the one to ask for.
They do, and that is the design idea behind this reference: the embossed grid on the dial is repeated on the strap, so the texture runs from the face out to the wrist without an obvious break. In the frames the effect is clearest in the angled view, where the case is turned and both grid surfaces catch the light at once.
It is also why the watch reads as one object rather than a dial with something attached: the green of the face and the green of the strap sit close together in tone. Because the pattern is a raised texture and not a printed image, the light decides how visible it is — under a lamp both grids stand out, in flat daylight they settle down. Ask for one photograph with the dial and strap together in daylight before comparing this watch with anything else.
It is an octagon, not a circle. The flanks of the bezel are vertically satin-finished and the chamfered edges are polished, while the case underneath is round, so the silhouette changes as the wrist moves: head-on the rim reads as a soft polygon, and from the side it turns into a single bright polished line.
The bezel is also unmarked. There is no scale, no graduation and no engraved numbering on it, which leaves light as the only thing it reflects. To check the geometry yourself, ask for one photograph taken level with the 12 and the 6 and another taken at roughly forty-five degrees, because the satin flats and the polished edges behave completely differently in each of those two views.
That depends on the wrist rather than on the number. This is the largest case in the Aquanaut line, and a wide flat bezel makes a watch spread across the arm; on a slim wrist the lugs decide whether it tips over the edge, and on a broader wrist the low profile is what keeps it comfortable. Nothing published about the reference settles that for your arm.
Two measurements make the question answerable: the distance between the lugs measured across the back of the case, and the weight of the complete watch on a kitchen scale. Send those alongside your wrist circumference in centimetres and the fit becomes a comparison rather than a guess. If you already own a watch whose fit you like, quote its diameter and its lug-to-lug length too, and the two can be put side by side.
The first frame squares the dial to the camera, which is where the dial colour, the numerals, the date aperture and the embossed grid can be checked together. The second turns the case so the satin bezel flat and the polished flank appear in the same shot. The third goes in on the crown and the strap, and the fourth looks along the case from the side with the strap running away from the lugs.
What none of them settles is what the offered watch actually is: the metal of its case, the movement fitted inside it, the strap that would arrive with it, its weight, its measured size and its water-resistance state now. The frames show one green strap carrying the same grid as the dial, and whether that is the strap you would receive is a question for the conversation rather than a conclusion to draw from a picture.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 5168G-010 |
| Model size | 42.2 mm across the case, the largest case in the Aquanaut line |
| Dial | Khaki green, embossed with a raised grid of squares |
| Dial print | Brand and city lettering in two lines above the centre, SWISS MADE at the foot |
| Bezel design | Octagonal bezel with vertically satin-finished flats and polished flanks |
| Bezel graduations | None; the bezel is unmarked and carries no scale |
| Hour-marker layout | Arabic numerals at every hour except three, with baton markers around the outer track |
| Hour markers | Applied, with a white luminous coating (reference design) |
| Hand arrangement | Baton hour and minute hands with luminous coating, plus a slim sweeping seconds hand |
| Date display | Aperture at three o'clock inside the numeral ring; the frame shows 27 |
| Subdial layout | None; this dial carries no subdial or register |
| Colour combination | Khaki green dial and green strap on a silver-toned case in the frames; the reference is documented in white gold |
| Strap shown | Green strap with the same raised grid as the dial, as it appears in the four frames |
| Strap (reference supply) | Composite strap in khaki green with a fold-over clasp, per published reference data |
| Movement (reference design) | Automatic calibre 324 S C with a 21K gold central rotor |
| Power reserve (reference design) | Roughly 35 to 45 hours |
| Water resistance (reference design) | 12 ATM, about 120 m |
| Case back | Sapphire display back per published reference data; the frames do not show the reverse |
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