After the Todaro, the TCM series dedicated to Italian submarines continues. It was the turn of the 600-ton class Scirè, a slender silhouette with a painted hull to simulate a fishing boat to aircraft flying overhead. With very short sinking times and silent as a shadow, it reached its target without fear of detection. It was the submarine used to transport the Slow Running Torpedoes and their operators into the area of action. The successes in the Straits of Gibraltar and the Gulf of Alexandria are masterpieces of organisation, inventiveness, determination and courage of the members of the Hidden Warfare Forces, whose aim was to sink as many enemy ships as possible, but not their crews. The Scirè's last mission saw it carry 12 frogmen into the Gulf of Haifa but, betrayed by German transmissions whose Enigma code had by then been decoded, it was ruthlessly sunk without giving the crew any time or chance to save themselves. It was the night of 9-10 August 1942.
TCM Scirè
Swiss Made mechanical movement, self-winding.
47 mm steel case.
Back with screws and hand-engraved coat of arms.
Screw sprocket machined from billet.
Waterproof to 10 atmospheres.
Dial with reproduction of the Scirè silhouette.
Domed bull's-eye glass.
Price: 1,490 euro.
