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SOTC - my Dive (and dive-inspired) Watches

A quick look at my dive watch line-up. I like to build collections. I’m not really academic about it, but rather focused on what captures my imagination.

For the first time I’m actually ready to sell some watches, starting with that big IWC Aquatimer.

In the box:

Heron - Marinor - Rainbow: A wonderful little dive watch. The rainbow colors make sense to divers as you can gauge your depth by what colors disappear.

Mido - Ocean Star - Decompressor World Timer: An quirky watch with too much well-intentioned functionality on the dial, though I don’t really need to know what time it is in Tokyo while calculating my decompression time. I love the colors though.

WMT - Green Label - Sea-Wolf: This Chinese brand has fun by taking a classic design and making it look like someone accepted a bar challenge of drawing a Fifty Fathoms from memory while drunk.

Swatch x Blancpain - Ocean of Something: I don’t know the exact name, but it’s a great watch for the price, and fine for swimming.

Unimatic - UC-1: this Italian microbrand has taken the idea of a dive watch and minimized its design. I am really into this watch right now.

Christopher Ward - Desk Diver: A riff on all of us suit boys who wear fancy watches but never have the time to go diving, in a clever and humorous style.

Blancpain - Fifty Fathoms - 70th Anniversary: the real diver against which all others are measured in my mind.

Ulysse Nardin - Diver Air: high horology & design within the lightest (and coolest!) dive watch ever made.

Spinnaker - Fleuss - Fifty Phantoms: Another fun watch, playing with the genre’s obsession with lume using ghosts that glow in the dark while referencing a beloved classic.

Rolex - Submariner: A well-known diver popular amongst people new to watches. I borrowed my assistant’s for this photoshoot, I don’t actually do Rolex, though I bought a Sea Dweller when I got my instructor certification in 1997.

IWC - Aquatimer - Chronograph Galapagos: a serious piece of gear that looks out of place on land.

Some Lume shots at the end.