IWC

Gone, but not forgotten. I got it in the early 2000's. Sold it 5 or 6 years later, but it was quite a watch. Always loved the idea of a mechanical depth gauge in a wrist watch, even if I didn't really have the need of it. Credit photos: Antiquorum. And it...  

Nobody makes watches like this anymore. No more super niche technical watches anymore. They've all become "luxury objets d'art" and no longer "tools" for specialists.

As a president of a watch company - I would think, this watch is going to cost a lot to develop. Development costs in the past 20 years (since the IWC mentioned above was made) have definitely gone up A LOT. And thus, the small volumes would mean that thi... 

I've got so many ideas - some rather elaborate - that serve really niche markets.

Fully agree that there’s a lot less of this experimentation and complication exploration nowadays than back then. Unfortunately 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not sure what happened, after my last dive I checked and everything was screwd down, or maybe it was a valve failure… but my case flooded with sea water, and this is what happened: It’s so light, just even picking it up now to shoot this picture was a tru...  

You should have included a trigger warning before that picture. My whole day is ruined now!

I owned it on 2 separate occassions. Possibly my favourite IWC. ...  

Blancpain with a depth gauge. Oris has one with a very simple system.

I enjoy wearing these two followers, but they are pretenders to the throne. The Deep One is the true king! ...