Aoraki Vector

A field watch that belongs in the field.

Whether you are chopping up wood for the winter or putting up a new fence on the boundary, the Aoraki will feel right at home on your wrist. The Vector’s bold, high-contrast dial ensures you have clear legibility with minimal distortion, so you can stay on track with just a glimpse, day or night.

Our take on a modern field watch. The ‘Vector’ has some of the same design DNA as the Kruger SE model but adds in Arabics at 3, 6, 9 and 12. The bold arrow hand provides excellent real estate for lume and complements the dial perfectly.

Aoraki represents a milestone for Draken as a watch brand. This was the first watch to be assembled locally in New Zealand and as such, we thought it appropriate to give it a Kiwi name. Aoraki (Mt Cook) is the tallest mountain in New Zealand and the proving ground for Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest. Since starting the brand, we have never outsourced our QC or shipping ensuring that customers get the highest quality timepiece at an affordable price. Assembling the watches locally means that we’ll have more control over the SKUs, improved sustainability and contribute to the local watchmaking community.

The Aoraki is a first in a few other ways too. It’s our first watch with an antimagnetic case (20,000A/m), our first watch with a flat crystal, and our first watch with a brush-finished case. While the latter might not seem like a big deal, there was a bit of thinking that went into designing a case that still adheres to the Draken design language. For this model, we also designed 4 completely different dial/handset combinations. Each design tells a different story and has its own character. Swiss Super-LumiNova™ application is excellent as you would expect from Draken, and we’ve also upped the ante with the AR coating on the crystal.

As with our other models, Viton™️ gaskets come standard and the watch will come with both a leather bund single pass strap, and a military-style nylon strap more suitable for water. The watch will come packaged in our MOLLE pouch with a custom patch of Aoraki Mountain (Mt Cook).

• Movement: Miyota 82S5 automatic with hacking and hand-winding
• Water resistance: 100m
• Crystal: Flat sapphire with inner and outer AR coating
• Straps: Genuine leather single pass bund strap, nylon single pass strap
• Material: 316L
• Weight: 73g (watch head)
• Dimensions: 39mm diameter, 20mm lugs, 46.5mm lug to lug, 12.35mm thick

• Price includes VAT; shipping is excluded
• Orders Placed on weekends will be processed on Monday
• Orders placed Monday to Friday before 15:00 are shipped the same day
• Orders placed Monday to Thursday after 15:00 are shipped the following day
• Free shipping on orders over R2000

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