But it’s the brand’s 1960s tool watches, like the Bathy, the first mechanical dive watch with a depth gauge, and the Bivouac, the first watch with an aneroid barometer, that have made Favre Leuba a ...

Aneroid barometers, invented by Lucien Vidi in 1843, have a metal box to measure air pressure change. An 1860s Bourdon & Richard aneroid barometer can command a price of £3,000. The ...