Rolex

I often find myself daydreaming of nautical adventures, and more often than not, find myself swimming miles after miles, dreaming of conquering the English Channel one day. I find myself wondering which dive watch I would bring with me, for my next adventure. Or should I wear 2 while diving?

I also find myself reading dive watch releases a lot, often reflecting how a “perfect” mechanical dive watch would look like. 

This dive watch is close to my ideal form of a dive watch, yet it intentionally traded away the utility of a harder material, for silver, as if to tell one that it is good enough to be in silver..just because….

If I could improve on it, I’d swap the minute hand for a fat Doxa orange hand filled with lume.

I love eating fishes, well, but I can never catch a fish. I tried the same bait, same rod, and honed my fishing skills over months fishing in the sea and lakes, with my friends. They always catch something, but I do not seem to hook a fish. 

Yet, something magical happened. I actually swam with a Great White Shark by coincidence. It didn’t attack me, and swam away quite quickly. I guess, the ocean has been telling me, they’re friendly to me, so far. Maybe that explains my affinity to dive watches.

(The GW shark was a juvenile, maybe 2m long. I happened to spot it by the corner of my eye, and I panicked so badly. I was 5m from the shore, along Frenchman’s Beach at La Perouse Sydney. I think it was wondering what this crazy guy would be doing, swimming in the dead of winter, for hours after hours, along the beach.)

 It was a day when I realized how fragile life can be - I could have been killed easily by that fearsome but beautiful predator. In the meanwhile, I’m happy to be living.=D