Tag: diver

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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06/09/2020
Owner Review: Enicar Super Dive MKIII – Can You Dig It?

During this pandemic, I found myself with ample time to shop for watches. Who am I kidding I find the time even when I’m working at the office. I had always been interested in vintage watches and had explored brands like Heuer, Universal Geneve, and Zenith in the past, but the prices for these legends…
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22/08/2020
Owner Review: Orient Triton – the swan song of the tool dive watch

The Times They Are a-Changin’. Watches are by no means a necessary instrument in today’s world – tool watches, even less. And when an item is no longer a necessity, it starts becoming luxury. The watch industry is a prime example of this and with even Seiko steadily increasing their prices and pushing into Swiss…
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20/08/2020
Owner Review: Panerai PAM 359 – The incarnation of cool

I went into the local AD to have a look at the Rolex Milgauss. Actually, I was planning to buy one. While trying it on and talking watches, the salesman (who really knew what he was talking about (he is a watchmaker) and was a good salesperson, too) said “in this price range, we also…
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16/08/2020
Owner Review: Oris Divers 65 Hodinkee – A day to remember

It was a day in June and at that time I had no idea, that at 4 PM, I was going to purchase an Oris 65. I knew Oris from my good friend, fellow watch nerd and big Oris fan, Jasper. He has a nice collection of Oris all super cool watches, one of them…
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10/08/2020
Owner Review: Ollech Wajs P-101 – The Rebirth of Cool

Ollech & Wajs (pronounced: “Oh-leck and Vice”) may not be a brand most people are familiar with. Established in Zurich in 1956, OW enjoyed quite a bit of success selling precision tool and dive watches via mail-order catalogs and military PXs during the time of the Vietnam War; Digging through their back-catalog, it’s not hard…
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02/08/2020
Owner Review: The Ianos Avyssos is a Dive watch you must sea to believe.

So, what can I tell you about my Ianos Avyssos Blue?? I got it for my Birthday this year in January – placed a blind order online – and it arrived, very quickly, straight from Ianos Watches in Switzerland, with regular updates throughout from Jacob, the creator and owner, via email. It is a steel…
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24/07/2020
Owner Review: The Nivada Cousteau

The ability of vintage watches to tell stories of mankind always fascinated me. I am particularly attracted to tool watches with the Portuguese import hallmark, as they connect me to my country and make each piece more distinctive. Growing up in Portugal in the 80s, like every other kid I frequently watched Cousteau and Calypso…
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23/07/2020
Owner Review: Ratio Free Diver Professional 500m

П Ratio is quite an obscure brand – there’s little to be found about them around the web – they’re not big on marketing, using influencers or “disrupting the industry”. They, however, make a hell of a tool watch. Just like the transcendental number Pi they’ve taken up for their brand logo, the Ratio Freediver…
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01/07/2020
Owner Review: Isotope Goutte d’Eau Nordblad

The Isotope Goutte d’Eau Nordblad “Special Edition” really is a unique take on a divers watch. I love to see watch companies that take chances as Isotope did with this watch. Isotope is a micro brand based in the UK who have put together 2 versions of the Goutte d’Eau. This one with blue touches…
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26/06/2020