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Dan Henry 1975 Automatic Skin Diver Owner Review by @archiepeterson1303
The Dan Henry 1975 Automatic Skin Diver is a fun, colourful and retro styled skin diver, meaning it features only 150m of water resistance as opposed to the typical 200-300m of other dive watches. This means that whilst you can certainly swim with it, I wouldn’t recommend diving whilst wearing it. However this lack of…
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Owner review: Foster 11 Atmos Skin Diver
My friend Jonathan turned me on to the the Foster 11 Atmos Skin Diver, the first watch out of Oregon-based Foster Watch Co. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t heard of the brand or its founders, Everett and Christian. Apparently, Everett co-hosts a popular podcast where they talk about affordable watches. I haven’t listened to…
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Owner review: Dietrich SD-1 Skin Diver
As a micro-brand guy, I have bought and sold hundreds of watches over the last decade. So, I feel like I’m a pretty good judge of watches in the $500-$1500 range. Coming in that range ($1050 USD) recently is the Dietrich SD-1 Skin Diver. Historically while their watches have been very cool, they have been…
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Owner Review: Smiths Astral CM4501 Skin Diver – A History of a Company
This Smiths Astral Diver dates from 1966. It has a frosted, gilt finished, 60467E 17-jewel movement with a double-roller lever escapement, a steel escape and a monometallic balance with a beryllium balance-spring. The stainless steel case is marked 20 Atmos, but the non-screw down crown makes the claim of 200m water resistance questionable. Samuel Smith…
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Owner Review: Sears Tradition Skin Diver – A 1970s Cult Classic
If your parents ever dragged you to the local Sears department store for back-to-school supplies in the 1970s, somewhere among the endless racks of discounted tie-dye shirts and bell-bottom jeans, you may have seen this handsome Sears Tradition Skin Diver sitting in a display case. “Tradition” was Sears Roebuck’s private label for their line of…
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Owner Review: Mitchell Skin Diver – A short history
Most of you probably might not have heard of the Mitchell Skin Diver. If you are wondering if this watch has any associations with the fishing reel company, Mitchell Garcia, you are absolutely correct. Early advertisements have indicated that this elusive watch was first launched in the early 1960s. Just a few models were featured…
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Owner Review: EMG/HKED Nemo Diver
Oh what’s this, a vintage inspired dive watch. There is no shortage of these around but this EMG/HKED Nemo Diver is done rather well and offers some great value. Initially, I disregarded it due to its 13.5mm thickness featuring quite a bulging case back. I felt it wouldn’t quite give that sporty but elegant feel…
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Owner Review: Seiko 5 Sports SRPD Diver
When I was lucky enough to see the Seiko 5 Sports SRPD Diver on a local shop’s flash buy email for 60% off retail last Friday week, I just had to buy it. Sure I have a few watches in my collection, but I was wanting one for riding my bike to work and not…
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Owner Review: Oris Divers Sixty-Five
I’ve owned many diver-style watches in the past, and several claiming to be re-issues, but not many pull off the 1960’s-1970’s ‘Skindiver’ vibe quite as well as the Oris Divers Sixty-Five series. Although some of the 65 designs are made with more modern watch fashion influences, like their bronze editions. I have a deep love…
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Owner review: 1967 Bulova Snorkel 666 “J”
Did you know that America runs on Bulova time? Or so went Bulova’s motto in the world’s first ever television commercial broadcast on July 1, 1941 during a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. These days, America runs on Dunkin and the Dodgers play for Los Angeles — but we can still…
