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What Did Divers Use Before There Were Dive Watches?

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When Rolex and Blancpain launched their first wristwatches for divers in the early 1950s they did, in fact, create the archetype of the modern dive watch, thanks to the development of the quintessential rotating bezel. However, they did not invent the first watch used by divers.

If we travel back in time, we find that World War II (and, especially, the frogmen of the Italian Navy) demonstrated the potential of underwater warfare and thus the need for salvage. This, in turn, further increased the need for water-resistant watches in order to better conduct underwater missions involving timing and navigation. The 1940s marked the introduction of various water-resistant watches and, of course, the canteen-style watches that were equipped with little more than an additional crown cap for increased water resistance. Earlier, in the 1930s, there was Panerai supplying the Italian naval divers with various instruments as well as (in cooperation with Rolex) some of the first specifically developed watches for divers.

Four years before that, and in a much more civilian environment, Omega launched the rectangular Marine, with a patented double sliding and removable case, which was (at least theoretically) water-resistant to a depth of more than 100 meters. Because of these attributes, the Marine was successfully used by underwater pioneers such as William Beebe (up to 14 meters) and Yves Le Prieur.

But we still have to travel a bit further back to get to the beginning: In the 1920s, watch companies had already introduced various types of water-resistant watch cases for the increasingly popular wristwatch or “wristlet,” with the Rolex Oyster case as the most prominent example thanks to Mercedes Gleitze’s heavily advertised record swim. But the world beneath the deep, and with it the diver as a target audience, was basically nonexistent to the watch industry, as was the concept of horizontal, autonomous movement underwater.

It was the era of the hard hat diver. From the 1820s on, a few brave men started to walk on the seafloor using inventions that were initially intended for firefighting. Air was constantly supplied from the surface, and measuring time underwater was most likely not these men’s first priority. An increase in deep-sea exploration and the ongoing industrialization of diving led to the first autonomous diving helmets in the early 20th century, and with these also came an increased need for the diver to know how much time he spent underwater. The watch industry was already experimenting with water-resistant pocket watches for different reasons, and the idea of an external pocket watch on a diver’s suit thankfully was not pursued, given the physically demanding tasks performed by the divers.

The solution was much simpler: Divers mounted pocket watches on the inside of their diving helmets, so that they always had the time in their sight, right next to the depth meter. One way of doing this was by affixing a second watch case to the helmet first (as pictured), so that the watch itself could be removed whenever needed.

So, the first thing a diver saw and heard after the command, “Hat the diver!” was a ticking pocket watch on the inside of his helmet, which hopefully never got wet.

This story was originally posted on watchtime

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Dive Watches To Consider Getting For Your Man On Valentine's Day

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It's nearly Valentine's Day, and while most of the men will remain blissfully unaware of the onrushing holiday until the last second, the women are more prepared. No doubt many ladies have already chosen a special gift to give to their love on Valentine's Day, but those who are still looking for the right gift should consider a fashionable, functional dive watch.

The Rolex Submariner

Rolex is widely considered to be one of the most fashionable watch brands in the world. The premier Rolex dive watch is the Submariner, and it comes packed with a bevy of features sure to make your beau's eyes light up! The Rolex Submariner comes in several different color and material schemes, allowing you to choose what you believe would suit your man best.

The Bell & Ross Marine

If your man really likes diving deep, the sleek and stylish Bell & Ross Marine line of dive watches may be the perfect gift for him this Valentine's Day. With a water resistance of up to 1,000 meters, this watch can withstand as much pressure as any other. The look of Bell & Ross' Marine line is very unique as well, ensuring your man will stand out and look amazing.

The Breitling Superocean II 44

The Breitling Superocean II 44 features a range of materials to match whatever your man looks best in, as well as maintaining Breitling's ultra-sporty fashion. This combination makes it perfect for the modern man on the go, especially if he intends to go diving. Breitling's Superocean II 44 is the newest model in their long line of fantastic dive watches and their experience shows in all the features packed into this beautiful dive watch.

The Cartier Calibre De Cartier Diver Automatic

The Calibre from Cartier combines form and function for any diver into one gorgeous package. Any man would consider himself lucky to get one of these stylish dive watches from his love this Valentine's Day. From the sword-shaped hands to the Super-LumiNova indicators, Cartier prides itself on attention to detail and harmony in the Calibre, as with all its watches.

The Citizen Eco-Drive Professional Diver

With the Eco-Drive Professional Diver, Citizen attempted to create a dive watch that would look as good on your man's wrist during a night on the town as it would on a dive under water, and they succeeded. Few other dive watches manage to capture both the stylish form and the rugged, precise function of a dive watch as well as the Citizen Eco-Drive Professional Diver.

The IWC Aquatimer Chronograph

This self-winding dive watch from IWC not only comes in a few base color and material combinations, but it also boasts a few special editions including the luxurious and fascinating "Galapagos Islands," the sleek “Expedition Jacques-Yves Cousteau," and several others. Whichever edition you choose to get for your man, he's bound to be extremely pleased!

The Omega Seamaster

The Seamaster collection from Omega offers several distinct schemes to choose from, making it easy to pick the perfect dive watch for your unique love. From vibrant colors to more classic looks, all of the Omega Seamaster watches bost looks and features to make fantastic gift options for your man this Valentine's Day, or any other special occasion.

The Marathon GSAR Swiss Made Military Issue

If your man has a taste for dive watches in a military style or likes to go night diving, the GSAR Swiss Made Military Issue dive watch from Marathon is the perfect gift for him this Valentine's Day. The GSAR Swiss Made Military Issue is used by search and rescue divers, especially in night-time operations, due to its unique tritium gas tubes which glow in low-light environments.

The Oris Diver Sixty-Five

Oris brought back the iconic look of its earliest dive watch and filled it with modern features to present the Diver Sixty-Five. This dive watch is a magnificent combination of classic style and top of the line dive technology, making it a stunning gift for the man who appreciates both the classics and the modern. Oris offers the Diver Sixty-Five in almost four dozen unique combinations of color and material.

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10 Stylish And Famous Actors' Dive Watches

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With the recent Golden Globe Awards, everyone in the fashion world is abuzz with all the actors' choices of evening wear. From their flashiest outfits to the smallest accessories, every detail is a carefully chosen piece of an actor's wardrobe. A fashionable dive watch is no exception, as many actors have proven throughout their careers.

Daniel Craig's Omega Seamaster

Actors who play James Bond have often worn dive watches as part of their character's work and impeccable sense of style. Daniel Craig is no exception to this, having gotten a taste for Omega watches on the set of his movies, especially the Omega Seamaster. Omega has recently updated their Seamaster dive watch collection with a bevy of new features, making them some of the best dive watches currently available.

Robert Downey Jr.'s Rolex "Hulk" Submariner

Robert Downey Jr.'s loves his Rolex Submariner with a particular color scheme that has gotten it nicknamed the "Hulk." The beautiful green hue of the watch makes it an instant fashion statement for superheroes and "common" men alike. Rolex Submariner dive watches are more than just pretty though, they have the specs to be some of the best dive watches available.

Sylvester Stallone's Panerai Watches

While many actors pair with their favorite watchmakers for a mutually-beneficial partnership, few are better than known than Sylvester Stallone and Panerai. Apparently, Stallone simply walked into a Panerai store in Italy during shooting for one of his films and fell in love with the style of Panerai watches. Since then, he's been seen wearing many different models of Panerai. Panerai's best-known dive watch is the Submersible.

Mark Wahlberg's Rolex Submariner

Mark Wahlberg is well-known for his love of Rolex watches. Among his collection are a gold Yacht-Master II, a special 50th-anniversary edition GMT-Master II, and a Rolex Submariner, an excellent dive watch. Wahlberg's signature Rolex Submariner is golden with a blue dial, but the model comes in a variety of materials to match many unique styles.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Seiko H558

Arnold Schwarzenegger is well-known for his bold presence and action-star status. It should come as no surprise that he has at least one serious dive watch in his collection. The Seiko H558 is what some dive watch aficionados call a "tuna." Tuna watches are usually big, a little on the heavy side, and perfectly suited for underwater adventures.

Martin Sheen's Seiko 6105

Director Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic "Apocalypse Now" has a lot of details to appreciate, including the handsomely-stylish Seiko 6105 on Martin Sheen's wrist as he plays Capt. Willard. The Seiko 6105 is widely considered to be Seiko's most definitive dive watch. While it is hard to find a watch of this model in good condition today, they do exist and are prized by dive watch collectors.

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Gnomon Watch Exclusive - PABLO Profundo VB-1

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=10316 Introducing the new Pablo Profundo VB-1, the debut timepiece from Pablo Watches and a model that is available exclusively form Gnomon Watches. The 1950s was an era when dive watch design was at its height with the birth of classic, iconic forms that are still followed closely, today. Buying a mint condition, 50's or 60's icon from the likes of Rolex, Blancpain or Omega doesn’t come cheap, nor does buying one of their modern-day offerings. Which is why the sector that deals with affordable Swiss made vintage inspired dive watches are absolutely thriving. Look at the sheer volume of crowdfunded watches that hit the market it the last few years alone, it truly is buyer’s market.

However, one of the drawbacks of buying from such projects is that we must wait for the projects to come to fruition before we can get our latest fix on our wrists. So here’s another brand-new project, from a new brand – only this time the watches are already available and they are being handled by non-other than Gnomon. Limited Edition of 200 pieces, the Profundo VB-1 has been primarily designed as a professional tool watch side, but in the classic style that was made famous by Rolex. It boasts a solid 316L Stainless steel case, measuring 40mm wide and 49mm from lug to lug. It has a combination of hand satin-brushed on the top surfaces, and high-polishing on the sides. Special care was taken with details such as the slim bevel that runs along its length which has a high-polish –

and of course to the 6.5mm in diameter screw-down crown, nicknamed, “Big Crown” by fans of watches of the 60s era.  Both the crown and case back have high-quality gaskets providing 200 meters of water-resistance. Another retro feature of the VB-1 is its drilled lug holes that allow one to easily remove and replace its strap or switch between bracelets. Its case-back features Pablo Profundo with the serial number of each piece produced a with all the other details on the circumference. The dial of the VB-1 is protected by an old school, box-shaped Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating underneath to enhance legibility.

Underneath, one will find the Profundo VB-1 featuring an iconic matte black dial with an outer closed minute track for minute indications, paired with 3D raised hour markers. The markers and minute track are in a caramel vintage color that mimics the aging process found on today’s vintage watches while C3 SuperLumiNova keeps things bright in the dark. A classic black aluminum bezel is another nod to the past, again with a caramel vintage colored pearl to match the dial while a red triangle at 12 completes the look. Powering this new VB-1 is the established Swiss ETA 2824-2 Elabore automatic movement, featuring 25 jewels and a beat-rate of 28,800bph, and 40hrs of power reserve.

Finally, the VB-1 comes with a cool, vintage-inspired 316L steel bracelet (oyster-style) with riveted sides which has a highly tapered profile of 20mm to 16mm. The new PABLO Profundo VB-1 is exclusively available from Gnomon Watches priced 520USD. This post was originally published on oceanictime

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Freediver Guillaume Néry teams up with Panerai

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=9086 Just when you thought it was safe to stop lusting over chunky Italian divers, just when you thought you were ready for something a little more sensible in terms of wrist attire; Panerai releases this big beauty! Panerai has just unveiled something a little bit special for SIHH 2019, a new professional Submersible dive watch endowed with all those design traits that diving Paneristi will surely find irresistible. And Panerai’s muse for the new Submersible Chrono, French freediving champion, Guillaume Néry who is world-famous for his free-diving records as well as his sublime underwater images and videos. Introducing the Submersible Chronograph Guillaume Néry Edition AKA PAM00982. With 300 meters of water-resistance and equipped with a Titanium diver’s bezel that just happens to have a rather lovely matte blue ceramic inlay; it is equipped for all disciplines of diving, snorkeling, scuba, desk-diving and most certainly free-diving. As a testament to Guillaume Néry’s achievements in the latter, the case-back is engraved with his signature along with an image that recalls his latest breathtaking record; depth of 126m which he reached on a single breath! Talking of breath, the Submersible Chrono’s texturized matte grey dial does take your breath away, doesn't it? Panerai is usually pretty adept at conveying a real sense utility in their Submersibles but this one is just perfect IMO. The dial has been designed to be exceptionally readable in all conditions of light and darkness, thanks to a combination of white and blue luminescent indices that stand out very well against the grey background. The watch’s 47mm Titanium case has also been equipped with Panerai’s iconic articulated diver’s strap in a blue that perfectly matches with the blue of the ceramic bezel. Powering the new Sub Chrono is an automatic caliber P.9100 3-day power reserve. The movement was entirely developed in Panerai’s high-end watchmaking Manufacture in Neuchâtel, the Laboratorio di Idee. Thoughts? You know I love it, but how about you? Is 47mm a little too far off-trend? I guess if you actually wore it for diving, it’s a good size. This post was originally published on oceanictime

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Bulova Announces Reissue of the 1972 ‘Devil Diver’

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For the last month and a half watch collectors and enthusiasts have been invited to vote, from a selection of three vintage Bulova watches, as to which watch Bulova should reissue next year.

And the results are in: The 1972 Bulova Oceanographer ‘Devil Diver’ will receive a facelift and get relaunched at the 2018 Baselworld watch fair in March.

This has of course made many people excited as the ‘Devil Diver’, nicknamed so due to the 666 foot depth rating, is a favorite of many vintage collectors.

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It won out over a couple of other excellent options, the 1970 Bull-Head Chronograph and the 1970 Surf-board Chronograph.

I’m looking forward to the official unveiling in March, and rumor has it that there will be a limited edition version (fittingly limited to 666 pieces) with an orange bezel.

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Here's your second chance to own DOXA’s previously Sold-Out “Black Lung”

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Late last year, DOXA surprised dive watch fans with their limited reissue of the SUB 300 “Black Lung” edition. Collectors scooped up the release—which was limited to just 300 units—practically overnight. (Click here to read our coverage and to learn more about the historical significance of that watch.) Today, DOXA is teaming up with StockX to make available five “internal use” editions of the Black Lung. These watches are from a small edition of 50 units issued only to dive instructors of Aqua Lung and DOXA employees directly involved in the project. Those interested will need to enter a bid of $2,590 (the retail price) through StockX. At the end of the contest, StockX will randomly select five bidders who will receive the watch for the retail price. Bidding is now open, and it will run through March 11th. Winners will be announced the following day. Not a bad deal considering the secondhand prices on these are already climbing. Happy bidding!

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Dive Watches With Unconventional Features

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A dive watch is a must-have accessory for any man who spends a lot of time on or under the water. They are also a stand-out fashion statement that says a lot about the skills, lifestyle, and fashion sense of the man wearing them. All of them have the required features you look for, but the dive watches below have some cool quirks and unknown features that just might surprise you!

Calibre de Cartier Diver

Cartier is not a brand usually associated with dive watches, being much better known for their dress watches. However, with the Calibre de Cartier, Cartier produced an excellent watch for serious divers. It is a non-chronograph dive watch with a sub-second display for extremely precise timing. Cartier's premier dive watch meets the strict requirements for ISO 6425, proving it has the chops for a diver.

Richard Mille RM 025 Tourbillon Chronograph Diver’s Watch

Another offering from a brand that usually sticks to dry land, the Richard Mille RM 025 Tourbillon Chronograph Diver’s Watch is packed with features only a diver can appreciate. Richard Mille's dive watch has a tourbillon, mono-pusher chronograph, and a torque indicator. All these features do result in a relatively large dive watch, but Richard Mille uses a titanium center casing to keep the watch light.

MB&F HM7 Aquapod

MB&F made a dive watch that truly looks at home under the ocean with the HM7 Aquapod. The watch is fitted with domed sapphire crystals and a tourbillon in the very center of the watch, resulting in a unique design that looks wonderfully aquatic. It also has a traditional-style diver's bezel. However, this bezel is set around the watch, resulting in another unique facet from MB&F.

Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronometer

Ulysse Nardin is a well-known name in dive watches, with decades of experience in producing excellent pieces. They also have a unique sense of style, which is apparent and appreciated in the Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronometer. This dive watch marries 78k red gold and blue rubber in a strange but beautiful form, along with Ulysse Nardin's signature textured bezels.

Ressence Type 5

With a unique, constantly-shifting appearance, the Ressence Type 5 is a dive watch for a man always on the move. Ressence dive watches feature a pebble-shaped appearance along with subdials that constantly float around the main central dial. The Ressence Type 5 also solves a common problem with dive watches: it can be viewed from any angle underwater!

Rolex Deepsea

Rolex is unique among companies which produce dive watches in using the concept of "water-proof" rather than "water resistant." This has long been a cornerstone of Rolex's marketing for their dive watches, and the Rolex Deepsea is no exception. This new iteration of their professional diver's watch is "waterproof" to a depth of 3,900 meters.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Automatic

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Automatic is the dive watch for a man who appreciates a classic look, as the design is based upon Jaeger-LeCoultre's famous 1986 Memovox Polaris. Special features of this beautiful period watch include interchangeable quick-release straps, a distinctive numeral design, and proprietary mechanical movement.

Grand Seiko Spring Drive Diver Sport SBGA229G

With all of their watches, Grand Seiko is known for their extreme attention to detail. The Spring Drive Diver Sport SBGA229G is an example of the beauty and function attention to detail can add to a dive watch. Gran Seiko puts a Zaratsu mirror-finish polish and perfectly-faceted hands on their dive watch. The watch also features a unidirectional bezel with firm but extremely smooth feel during use.

Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver

Bell & Ross's distinctive square-format watches are always a beautifully unique marriage of form and function. Bell & Rolls puts some unique features on the MR 03-92 Diver, perhaps the most intriguing of which is a yellow hour hand, designed to become less noticeable at deeper depths. This gives more visual precedence to the minute hand, which Bell & Roll knows is more important to a diver's safety.

Longines Legend Diver L3.774.4.50.9

The Legend Diver L3.774.4.50.9 is a refreshing update to the classic 1960s Longines dive watch model. It has a domed watchglass and an internal rotating bezel which is operated using a second crown. The design of the bezel on Longines' new dive watch can be used to measure elapsed time. The Legend Diver from Longines is a wonderful meeting of classic design and modern function.

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The New ULYSSE NARDIN Diver 42MM

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Introducing Ulyssee Nardin's New Diver 42mm.   Even though it appears to have all the elements of a traditional diver, it still has that signature Ulyssee Nardin flair.  Better yet, priced at only $5,900 USD - you could be looking the first Ulyssee Nardin watch to be added to your dive watch collection.

Founded in 1846, Ulyssee Nardin has a rich nautical heritage that remains true to the finest Swiss manufacturing processes, including producing all of their own movements, cases, watch components, and even their own screws and fixings in-house.

With their new diver, Ulysse Nardin is now poised to position themselves against Rolex, Omega, and Tudor who have been dominating the dive-watch segment for years.

This diver has a vintage look about it - with touches of beige as well as a surprising addition to the dial - the GPS latitude and longitude coordinates of the Swiss town of Le Locle, the home of Ulysee Nardin.

All the basic diver’s features appear as you would expect them to: unidirectional rotating bezel and water resistance to 300 meters, and many other standard dive watch features.

The watch comes in a variety of colors and strap choices, including blue fabric, black veal rubber, a 3-row Stainless steel or a stainless steel Milanese bracelet.

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Bell & Ross and Cortina's new baby: the BR03-92 Diver Bronze named “Demiurgus”

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French luxury watch brand, Bell & Ross and Singapore’s famed Rolex and Patek Philippe retailer, Cortina Watch have partnered on a new, limited-edition version of one of B&R’s rare dive models that is well worth an overseas journey to acquire. Limited to just 100 pieces, the 42mm Bell & Ross Cortina BR03-92 Diver Bronze “Demiurgus” is not a radical departure from the brand’s flight-instrument inspired timepieces; however it has been adapted to cater to the requirements of scuba divers.

Water resistant to 300 meters / 1000 feet, the “Demiurgus” celebrates the 15-year partnership between Bell & Ross and Cortina, an early adopter of their idiosyncratic watch brand founded in 1993.

The watch has been given the nickname “Demiurgus” – meaning ‘creator of the universe’ in some belief systems, though this personage tends to be more of an artisan than arbitrary deity. The drab olive dial features gold-plated appliqué indices with Super-LumiNova inserts, while the case and bezel are made from satin-polished CuSn8 bronze – a patented alloy made of 92% copper and 8% tin.

The addition of tin in the bronze alloy allows the Swiss-made watch to acquire more patina than bronze of the more common, bronze-aluminum variety that is used for most watches of this style. Panerai also uses CuSn8 bronze for dive watches, which will show age and wear, taking on reddish brown and grayish green hues over time, and thus enhancing the timepiece’s character, though the look isn’t for everyone.

The strap is made of weathered leather backed by black rubber, while the caseback is engraved with the image of a vintage diving helmet and the specifications for this limited edition watch from Bell & Ross and Cortina.

The addition of tin in the bronze alloy allows the Swiss-made watch to acquire more patina than bronze of the more common, bronze-aluminum variety that is used for most watches of this style. Panerai also uses CuSn8 bronze for dive watches, which will show age and wear, taking on reddish brown and grayish green hues over time, and thus enhancing the timepiece’s character, though the look isn’t for everyone. The strap is made of weathered leather backed by black rubber, while the caseback is engraved with the image of a vintage diving helmet and the specifications for this limited edition watch from Bell & Ross and Cortina.

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Hurry to HALDOR's GoFundMe to put an Armis CERAMIC ZrO2 dive watch on your wrist today

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=1626 The ARMIS HHC and DLC have been added to the Haldor dive watch family. The HHC treated 316L Marine Grade, Stainless steel case of the Armis now not only benefits from a protective outer skin but its most exposed now part – the bezel which is prone to scratches has been given a tough scratch-resistant Zerconia Ceramic inlay. While the double gaskets used for its case-back provide up 2000 meters of water-resistance. This has been officially certified by an independent Swiss testing laboratory. The Armis Ceramic is also shock-resistant, and thanks to a Faraday Cage surrounding its movement has Magnetic Field Resistance up to 4.800 ampere per meter (A/m). Powering the Armis Ceramic is a Swiss Made 25 jewel, ETA 2824-2 with Top Grade accuracy beating 28.800 vibrations per hour. As well as its 200atm of pressure-resistance, further divers features of the Armis Ceramic include: a 7mm in diameter screw-down crown, a screw-down case-back with Armis Shield design, a 4.5mm thick, (inner) AR-coated anti-scratch, Sapphire crystal and an automatic Helium Escape Valve located at 9 o’clock on the case. BGW9 Swiss SuperLuminova has been generously applied to the hands and dial markings of the Armis Cermaic as well as the 12hr marker of its 120-click unidirectional rotational diver’s bezel. Dimensions include: a diameter of 42mm (excl. crown), a lug-to-lug of 50mm, a thickness of 14.9mm and 22mm wide drilled lugs. In addition to the its HHC Stainless steel bracelet, the Armis is supplied with an additional Italian made black rubber diver’s strap. Please follow the link HERE or the one embedded, below for more info. on the HALDOR Armis Ceramic.

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CAVENAGO Tricolore II

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=9186 What could be more Italian than the Tricolore, Italy’s flag and their most recognizable cultural icon with its three equally-sized vertical stripes of green, white and red; it can be found on some of the country’s most famous exports – from Ferraris to fettuccine, it is a proud symbol of Italy. Italian boutique brand specializing in diver’s watches, Cavenago have taken the Tricolore and used it to further enhance the aesthetics of one of their latest diver’s models, the NEW Cavenago Tricolore II.

Its sturdy 46mm in dimeter satin-brushed black steel case which has a certified water-resistance to 1000 meters is fitted with a high-tech and special domed sapphire unidirectional rotating diver’s bezel. This uniquely styled diver’s bezel perfectly highlights the most critical element on any diver’s watch, the elapsed dive-time-scale which can be found in white BGW9 Swiss SuperLuminova markings that emit a bright blue light – while the remaining portion of the bezel has been left totally sterile so that you can enjoy the premium look of the sapphire crystal inlay all the more!

With oversized hands, numerals and hour-markers, accentuated by a luminescent coating with SuperLuminova technology, optimal readability even in the darkest depths of the ocean is insured. The dial is minimal with a vintage touch and some Italian flare by way of their national flag colors. The Tricolore II with its original and distinctly professional style houses a Swiss Made self-winding movement, the ETA 2824-2. It is hand-assembled in Switzerland and the production is limited to just 100 pieces per year. The Tricolore II comes presented in beautifully hand-made wooden box along with a three year international warranty. It is available to order HERE.

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Ocean Crawler Core Diver: Probably The Sexiest Dive Watch You’ll See All Year

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Ocean Crawler, based in New York, is just about to release their latest diver, the Core Diver, and I can confirm it’s a beauty.

It’s been designed with the mindset of being a true divers watch, built with a pleasing amount of heft with plenty of practicality and ease of use while underwater. Meanwhile on land, and on the wrist that deep blue dial with the orange and blue bezel and matching hands, coupled with the mesh bracelet (the watch comes with both a leather strap and a shark mesh bracelet) and either choice makes the watch look sensational.

The Core Diver has about it an untamed sense of adventure and is ready at a moment’s notice to dive into the blue in search of a coelacanth. It’s no mere desk diver either, every single Ocean Crawler has been immersed in water and has been thoroughly tested to withstand pressures of up to 2000 feet or 600 meters – far deeper than you will ever go. The 44mm Core Diver is made from 316L stainless steel. It’s a must have under-water accessory for water sports enthusiasts who scuba dive, spearfish and even searches undertake deep on the ocean bed.

This special edition from Ocean Crawler features a practically scratchproof sapphire 120 click unidirectional rotating bezel which bears hour-markers filled with seven layers of BGW9 Lume. The powerful lume is also on the key elements so as to ensure perfect readability when deep diving. The movement chosen for the Core Diver is a regulated Sellita SW-200 movement. With a 40-hour power reserve, it has a beat rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour and has been enhanced for added accuracy.

The Core Diver is something of a rarity too. There are only 83 units per color. It comes with either an orange/white a black/white dial or a blue/white dial and each watch is stamped with a unique serial number. Core features for the Core Diver include:

Precise and ultra-smooth 120 click bezel action underwater

Special bezel edge no-slip grip designed for ease of use underwater

Thick crack resistant sapphire bezel insert with large triple lumed numbers

Selitta SW200 movement regulated to +/-5 seconds guaranteed accurate 5 years

Date window at 6 o’ clock

How much? Pre-order price: US$999

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Introducing the Baltic Aquascaphe Dive Watch

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=8998 Following the launch of the Bicompax 001 chronograph and time-only HMS 001 last year, French startup Baltic has just launched its first dive watch, the Aquascaphe. Like many successful “microbrand” watches, the Aquascaphe combines retro design and solid specs at an affordable price.

In keeping with the retro styling, the Aquascaphe has a 39mm stainless steel case featuring a screw-down crown and 200m depth rating. It’s also fitted with a domed sapphire crystal that has an anti-reflective coating on its underside.

While the watch is vintage-inspired, the design has also been modestly streamlined compared to the 1950s originals that inspire it. The sapphire-covered bezel, which is meant to evoke Bakelite bezels of old, is a five-minute interval bezel. Notably, all of the bezel markings are luminous, a simple but useful feature that is surprisingly lacking on most modern dive watches. The Aquascaphe is available in three iterations: black dial with white markers, as well as black or blue dials with “gilt” print and faux vintage ivory Super-Luminova. Reminiscent of more famous dive watches, the dial has a “semi-sandwich” construction. The triangle quarter hour markers are cut-outs on the upper dial plate that show the luminous paint on the lower dial plate, while the other hour markers are printed. It’s matched with pencil-shaped hands and a “lollipop” sweep seconds.

Hidden behind the solid caseback is the automatic Miyota 9039 with a 42-hour power reserve. While made in Japan, the movement is tested and adjusted in Besançon, the historical centre of French watch manufacturing and chronometer testing, and now also home to Baltic. To complete the retro styling, the Aquascaphe is fitted to a “beads-of-rice” bracelet with an integrated quick-release mechanism (two tabs retract the spring bars that hold it in place), or a Tropic-style rubber strap. Price and Availability At the pre-order stage, the Baltic Aquascaphe is priced at €485 on the Tropic-style rubber strap, and €550 with both the bracelet and rubber strap. In future, the Aquascaphe will retail for €579 on a rubber strap and €659 on just the bracelet. They are available for pre-order direct from Baltic, with the first watches slated to ship in early June 2019. This article was originally posted on watchesbysjx

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Check out the new ZELOS Watches GREAT WHITE

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=9254 What’s bigger and badder than a Mako but belongs to the same family? That might depend on whether we’re taking dive watches or sharks, right? Carcharodon Carcharias AKA the Great White shark is certainly bigger and badder than a Mako, also belonging to the family of Mackerel Sharks.

By no happy coincidence, the latest diver from Zelos, the Great White has been designed to be a bigger and badder version of their popular MAKO dive watch. With a case offering increased size and thickness, the Great White also goes deeper; its 44mm case is water-resistant to 1000 meters, double that of the Mako. Like its smaller brother, the Mako, the Great White’s dial features a spiral 3D pattern that is punctuated by double markers with shark teeth at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. A generous amount of SLN has been applied to the hands and markers of the Great White in a mix of C3 and BGW9, so perhaps it not only bigger and badder but possibly brighter, too. A sapphire crystal and ceramic bezels provide provides the Great White with excellent scratch resistance while a Swiss Sellita SW200 automatic reliability an accuracy. The ZELOS Great White has been released in collection of 8 variants (4 x CuSn8 bronze and 4x 316L steel) priced from 499USD. Follow the link HERE for more on the Great White.

This story was originally posted on oceanictime.com

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REVIEW: Seiko’s Save The Ocean Tuna - Prospex SNE518P

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=8526 A little while ago Seiko lifted the lid on a tasty trio of dive watches with a marine conservation theme: a turtle, a samurai, and a solar chronograph. All united by a gorgeous graduated blue dial, inspired by both the blue of the sea and its mightiest inhabitant, the blue whale; these summer-suitable divers sure have plenty of presence on the wrist. But not as much presence as the newest member of the Save The Ocean clan — the appropriately nicknamed Tuna can variant, the SNE518P.

Now, in case you’re not all over your Seiko dive nomenclature, the ‘tuna’ family of watches are as distinctive as they are significant. The design dates back to 1968 when a Japanese saturation diver wrote to Seiko with his particular dive watch requirements. Seven years later, in 1975,  Seiko met the challenge with the 6159-7010, an epically impressive diver that boasted 23 world firsts, not least the distinctive protective shroud. It’s the combination of massive blocky case and shroud, which bears more than a passing resemblance to tinned fish, that led to the tuna can moniker. It’s a design that’s been an important part of Seiko’s Prospex line ever since, and one that has evolved over the decades.

The SNE518P is a proud part of this lineage. Sized at a substantial 46.7mm, it looks the part of a professional diver, and, thanks to the puck-like, short-lugged design, actually wears better on the wrist than the dimensions would suggest. In addition to the Save The Ocean colorway, the SNE518P stands out for its solar movement, the V157, which takes in light through the dial and is good for up to 10 months of power reserve. Add the matt black shroud and chunky silicon dive strap to the equation and this is a watch that — while it’s not in any way dressy — packs a punch on the wrist. And, bonus points, goes a little way to supporting marine conservation and education. It’s not for everyone, but you can’t deny the power of the mighty tuna. This article was originally posted on timeandtidewatches

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The “Small” Breitling Superocean Héritage II 42 Still Packs a Punch

https://www.divewatchhq.com/?p=8512 When you’re accustomed to Rolex watches, a 42mm sized case is by no means considered small. Conversely, when dealing with Breitling men’s watches, 42mm sits, believe it or not, on the more restrained end of their spectrum. Take for example the Breitling Superocean Héritage II 42; this is the smallest offering in the collection alongside 44mm and 46mm sized versions! Let’s take a closer look at this new Breitling diver’s watch with a design that dates back to the 1950s.

Brief History of the Breitling Superocean

In the mid-twentieth century, Breitling was already known for their dominance in the military aviation space with a host of pilot watches, aviation chronographs, and aircraft instruments to their name. However, in 1957, the brand ventured into a slightly different direction with the introduction of the Superocean dive watch. Combat diving, professional diving, and hobby diving were picking up steam in the fifties; therefore the need for dive watches was also on the rise.

The Breitling Superocean takes a few notes from the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms

Created to compete with the Rolex Submariner, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, and Omega Seamaster launched earlier in the decade, the Breitling Superocean watches plunged into the dive watch space with 200-meter water resistance. Breitling actually unveiled two versions of the Superocean—an automatic three-hander and a manual-wound chronograph.

As a dive watch, the Superocean watches had all the typical traits needed for an underwater watch such as a rotating knurled bezel graduated to 60 minutes in order to record immersion times, a legible luminescent dial with oversized markers and hefty sword-shaped center hands, and a large 38mm case to house everything. The bezel was particularly intriguing thanks to its concave shape rather than a traditional flat surface. Plus, the steel mesh bracelet could withstand salty seas and look great out of the water too.  

Breitling continued to manufacture the inaugural Superocean models until they were replaced by the Superocean Chronograph ref. 2005 in the mid-1960s.

Breitling Superocean Héritage II 42

For the 60th anniversary of the Superocean in 2017, Breitling presented a new Superocean Héritage II collection including two sizes, two types of functions, and three different colors to choose from. Taking the homage watch route, the new Superocean Heritage II watches use the vintage 1957 Superocean models as inspiration but of course, include modern functionality and flair.

The new Breitling Superocean Héritage is a modern reincarnation of the old classic

Among all the options, the most straightforward—and closest to the original time-only Superocean—is the Superocean Heritage II B20 Automatic 42 in classic black that we have here. We don’t have to look far to see the Superocean design codes that were established six decades ago brought back to life.

There’s the marked black rotating bezel, but this time built in ultra-modern scratchproof ceramic. What’s more, the center sword-shape hands are similar in shape but are even bigger to accommodate the larger dial size. Breitling also retained the minute track running the periphery of the dial but did add a date window at 6 o’clock for day to day practicality. Finally, echoing the style of the very first Superocean watches, this modern Breitling dive watch also comes with a steel mesh bracelet.   Water resistance remains at 200 meters but encased within the watch is the in-house B20 automatic movement with a generous 70-hour power reserve. Breitling has no shortage of timepieces built with the spirit of aviation in mind. However, the Superocean Heritage II collection reminds us that along with a focus on the skies, Breitling also had one eye on the deep. This article was originally posted on bobswatches