The Seiko brand brings to mind electronic devices, but in fact Seiko has an important tradition of mechanical watches. The Prospex 1965 Heritage Diver’s 60th Anniversary Limited Edition, reference SPB511, is a new watch that has all the Seiko trademarks – great attention to reliability, durability and safety, an in-house mechanical movement, hour markers and…
This is almost a diving watch, in the sense that it offers nearly all the features required by ISO 6425, but not quite all of them. For example, an ISO 6425 diver’s watch requires that the hour and minute hands be distinctly different, and in this watch, they are pretty much the same except for…
Captain Robert Maloubier’s champion handlebar moustache made him immediately recognizable. He was also pivotal in creating another face you wouldn’t forget: the diver’s watch. In the early 1950s he worked with Blancpain on a watch suitable for divers, and the result was the Fifty Fathoms. Other watches for use underwater had been made previous to…
IWC have always had a 2,000 metre diving watch in their collection (Aquatimer Automatic 2000, water resistance 200 bar equivalent to 2,000 metres), and Rolex developed the Deepsea Special experimental watch built to resist the high pressure of deepwater diving at sea. CX Swiss Military Watch have now launched a 20,000 feet watch, so…
Panerai builds its success on watches that have a clear link to their past as supplier to the Italian Royal Navy, pieces that have a sufficient degree of quirkiness to set them apart from all other brands and make them immediately recognizable. In addition, they don’t make many of them, and so they virtually become…
You can’t talk about Tudor without talking about Rolex. Tudor was formed by Rolex specifically to make cheaper watches, and therefore cover the market segment below. It’s an area where a lot of battles are being fought, with new brands appearing right down at the entry level (such as SevenFriday), brands that are quietly expanding…