Alessia Zecchini — watch collection

About Alessia Zecchini’s watch collection

Alessia Zecchini is an Italian professional freediver and one of the most decorated athletes in the history of the sport. Born in Rome, she has spent her career pushing the boundaries of human performance in constant-weight apnea — the discipline in which a diver descends and ascends using only a monofin and their own physical strength, with no assistance from equipment. She holds the women's world record in that category, having reached depths that place her among the very few people on earth who have tested the limits of human physiology underwater. Zecchini has competed at the highest levels internationally and is widely regarded as a defining figure in the modern era of competitive freediving.

The Alessia Zecchini watch collection, as documented so far, centres on Ulysse Nardin — specifically the Diver X Antarctica, reference 8163-180LE. Zecchini was photographed emerging from open water wearing the piece over a grey wetsuit, making it one of the more credible dive watch sightings in recent memory. The Diver X Antarctica runs 44mm in stainless steel with a 300-metre water resistance rating, a screwdown crown, and a construction oriented toward serious aquatic use rather than poolside appearances. For a diver who regularly descends beyond depths most dive watches will never reach in actual use, the choice carries a logic that few athletes could genuinely back up.

What stands out about Zecchini's watch taste is the absence of any apparent concession to fashion over function. The Ulysse Nardin Diver X Antarctica is a limited edition, but its appeal in this context is rooted in its technical specification and the environment in which it was worn, not its scarcity. With only one watch currently in our database, her collection remains tightly focused — but what is documented places performance credentials above everything else.