Category Archives: saturation diving

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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introducing: Zenton Instruments

Posted on April 26th, 2010

TLex of OceanicTime published exclusive pictures of Zenton Instruments’ first collection. The case is rated at 200 BARRecognized by the International System of Units, BAR replaced ATM (atmosphere) as the standard unit of pressure. Interestingly, 1 BAR comes close to the air pressure at sea level; and roughly amounts to a column of 10 meter of sea [...]

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introducing: Essex watches

Posted on March 29th, 2010

Editor TLex of prominent diving watch blog OceanicTime has some exclusive information about Essex, a new watch company offering two saturation-diving watches using Swiss ETa movements and built in Germany. «A technical engineer with an eye for style, Rainer Brändlein founded Essex in 2007 as an exclusive watch brand for today’s active gentleman.» Read more [...]

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New custom Dwatch dial

Posted on December 16th, 2009

OceanicTime is currently giving away Dwatch discount vouchers. Within a year, Oceanictime  editor TLex singlehandedly became a reference  in the niche market of professional and saturation diving watches; and this voucher is a result of the many contacts TLex now has with the industry. Through this special offer, Dwatch is promoting their new Numeric dial with fat Arabic numerals (I suggest to call it “jumbo“), which is either available on [...]

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the best resource for diving watches

Posted on November 2nd, 2009

OceanicTime just celebrated their 1rst birthday last week. Editor tLex does a lot of research and he has managed to gain the trust of small diving watches companies, who regularly keep him updated with exclusive informations. If you’re passionate about independent diving watches companies, we can only recomment to subscribe to OceanicTime’s RSS feed or [...]

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Upcoming Kazimon watch

Posted on November 2nd, 2009

OceanicTime has exclusive pictures of the upcoming Kazimon saturation diving watch, the Kazimon 1500. Judging by the shots unveiled to editor tLex, the case design will feature a double bezel, a concept similar to that used by Doxa on their diving watch from the 1960′s. The fixed part of the bezel features an etched minute track, while the rotating [...]

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Introducing: Vigoria Miletto dive watch

Posted on October 23rd, 2009

tLex, the editor of diving watches resource OceanicTime recently took advantage of the discounts to acquire one of the VM (Vigoria Miletto) dive watches. VM is a new brand featuring diving and saturation diving watches. The designs are very angular and agressive, probably to suggest the watches’ imperviousness to water. At the time of writing, they give out big discounts on [...]

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Deep Blue Master 2000

Posted on October 22nd, 2009

Revealed by prominent diving watch blog OceanicTime, Deep Blue will start shipping on November 1rst their latest saturation diving watch, the Master 2000. Built to withstand 200 BARRecognized by the International System of Units, BAR replaced ATM (atmosphere) as the standard unit of pressure. Interestingly, 1 BAR comes close to the air pressure at sea level; [...]

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Introducing: Korsberk watch company

Posted on October 13th, 2009

Korsberk currently features two models on their web Site, the Oceaneer and the Ocean Explorer. Both models feature the ubiquitous ETA 2824-2 and a German-made saturation-diving stainless steel case. Korsberk has started taking input from dive watch enthusiasts on their forum to develop a new model, the Sea Rover:

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Pictures of sAs prototype

Posted on October 12th, 2009

Prominent diving watches resource OceanicTime has posted teaser pictures of the upcoming sAs cusion-shaped saturation-diving watch. Click here to go to the article.

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