Category Archives: saturation diving

Watch size throughout History

Posted on February 28th, 2011

The first reliable wearable timepiece was most likely the H4, commissioned in 1759 to John Jefferys by self-taught British watchmaker John Harrison in his quest to design the perfect longitude watch. Weighting 1.45 Kg, the ”pocket” watch measured more than 13 cm in diameter, but it was far more accurate than any of the previous clocks Harrison had ever built: only 5.1 seconds slower after 60 days [...]

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introducing: Magalex, run by an entrepreneur extraordinaire

Posted on January 13th, 2011

Born in 1949 in Pune, one of the largest metropolis of then-freshly independent India, Mr. Gurdeep Singh Kundan carried out a BA (Special) Economis at the University of Pune before relocating to Switzerland, where he studied Journalism and Sales Management in Fribourg and St. Gallen; and Germanic languages at the University of Bern. Besides High [...]

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introducing: Aeronautec watches

Posted on November 1st, 2010

Having been around since 2006, Aeronautec offers dressy and sporty mechanical watches. The founders have decided to connect the brand with aviation, as illustrated by the Website’s extensive use of beautiful photographs of aircafts. Aeronautec indiscriminately uses Swiss movements and their Asian clones, and the watches are mostly distributed throughout Germany for the time being. [...]

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First shots of the CREPAS Le Grand

Posted on October 8th, 2010

Pablo Calvo, founder of CREPAS watches (Compañìa Relojera Especializada Para Actividades Subacuáticas), contacted me with first shots of his prototype. The reader will keep in mind that this is the first prototype and that production pieces will benefit from further improvements. Trained in finance and holder of an MBA from a Swiss university, Mr. Calvo started [...]

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introducing: UhrMechanik

Posted on September 13th, 2010

UhrMechanik currently features a flagship collection, the 1000 meters, available with black dial with luminous indexes or luminous dial with black indexes. The 42 mm case features a 60-clicks 45 mm bezel, and a 7 mm thick domed saphire crystal, which bring the total thickness to 17 mm and the water-resistance do 100 barRecognized by [...]

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Introducing: Drass

Posted on August 26th, 2010

Hat tip to OceanicTime editor Tlex for pointing out to his May 2010 article for precisions. This year, Italian watchmaker Anonimo unveiled Drass, a spinoff of their eponymous brand. Anonymo has been building watches since 1939, and its history is linked to that of more prestigious Officine Panerai. In activity since 1927, DRASS is the oldest supplier [...]

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Introducing: North Eagle Military Watches

Posted on August 25th, 2010

Based in Bologna, Italy, North Eagle Military Watches sells Italian armed forces-themed watches. They offer the possibility of using custom dials and their automatic range starts with a Miyota automatic at EUR 220 up to a Dubois-Dépraz modular chronograph for EUR 850. Watches can be ordered directly from their Website at www.northeagles.com.

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Introducing: Azimuth

Posted on August 23rd, 2010

Azimuth somehow managed to source new old stock vintage movements such as the Fontainemelon 96 and a Marvin/Election hand-wound calibre. They took extreme care in designing limited series of military watch homages that met great success. Featuring vintage movements or modified contemporary UNITAS calibres, those timepieces boast a good reputation and now count amongst the very few watches that [...]

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Update on Benarus collections

Posted on August 10th, 2010

Since our first presentation of the brand, Benarus has been beefing up its collections with new chunky models. Watch collectors were able to get their hands on the Megalodon, which like the prehistoric shark it takes the name from, is resistant to the strong pressure of deep waters. Two hundred and fifty BARRecognized by the International System [...]

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Zinex is dead, long lives Zixen!

Posted on August 4th, 2010

Due to a trade mark conflict, Zinex has had to change its name. They reordered the letter to come up with ZIXEN and a new eponomous Web site. In the meantime, the brand has released more watches than one can shake a stick at. And they keep it coming… In the Special Edition collections, they [...]

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