Category Archives: stock design

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: Môntrèk watches

Posted on September 15th, 2009

A new player called Môntrèk offers saturation diving, square and world time watches equipped with the Miyota 8215 automatic caliber. The watches are all rated to 1000 meters and use what seem to be stock designs.   I haven’t been able to locate an official website yet. Here is their Website.

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introducing: Boschett timepieces

Posted on August 21st, 2009

Boschett timepieces currently offers three lines of diving watches: the Reef Ranger: rated at 30 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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When a homage becomes confused

Posted on August 20th, 2009

I couldn’t help notice that the Meisterart Militarisch D-Day is a bit of a conflicting homage: the watch honors both Europe’s invaders and liberators at the same time. The design is inspired by B-Uhren (abbreviation of BeobachtungsUhr = observation watch), the wartime tools built from 1942 onwards to help Germany conquer Europe. At the same time, [...]

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introducing: Kweather Wayne Group

Posted on August 20th, 2009

Founded by Norihisa Uenishi, Wayne Enterprises Co., Ltd. is a small business distributing watches under several trade marks, namingly: Prodive, diving watches on strap Meisterart, pilot watches Sea Monster, diving watches on bracelet Longio, a diving tourbillonWatch with the escapement housed in a cage that completes a revolution in a fixed amount of minutes.

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introducing: the BaliHa’i Project

Posted on July 23rd, 2009

The BaliHa’i is a “comic strip” diving watch concept… well, maybe the founder’s own words will explain it better: Perhaps the most unique single attribute of the BaliHa’i is its caseback design.   So far as we know, this is the first watch to rely on the services of a professional illustrator and comic book artist, [...]

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introducing: Enzo Mechana

Posted on July 23rd, 2009

Enzo Mechana offers some very rugged diving watches. Here is the company’s description: During his quarter century in the watch business where he designed watches for several companies and accepted private label commissions, Enzo spent decades dreaming of his quintessential diver’s watch, inspired by the action heroes, both real and imaginary, of his youth. To [...]

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introducing: Maurice Duplain

Posted on July 23rd, 2009

Maurice Duplain has a stock of components and movements for assembling your very own Swiss watch. You can either choose from one of his already assembled watches, or choose your own components and have them assembled or doing the job yourself if you’ve got the skills.  

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introducing: Deep Blue

Posted on July 23rd, 2009

Deep Blue offers some heady-duty diving watches.

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