new, from official locman dealer in bergamo. warranty will be activated and filled on the day of order. swiss made sellita SW200 movement, 40mm titanium case 20 mm lug, black guilloche dial with applied hour markers and numerals, sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, 10 atm water resistance. Twenty-fourth Canto Dante's poem, in addition to being a powerful and visionary account of a journey to the afterlife, is also universally recognized as a highly detailed depiction of the customs and culture of the 14th century. and in this majestic picture there are significant references to the existence of mechanical clocks in Tuscany since that time, thus confirming that Italy is certainly a country of very ancient clock-making traditions. It is difficult even today to determine exactly when the first timepiece saw the light of day, but in the Divine Comedy for the first time there is indeed mention of gears, wheels and spheres. In the Twenty-fourth Canto of Paradise Dante compares the dance of the souls of the blessed to the movement of the gears of a mechanical clock. the blessed," he writes, "turn with different speeds, like the hands of a clock, one of which seems stationary and the other is much less slow: those souls showed the degree of gladness according to their rapidity or otherwise of movement.