Tag: diver

Owner Review: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Navy Seals Alarm

Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC) has a thing with sound. Since 1959, JLC has been building alarms for the wrist. As such, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Navy Seals Alarm Watch (NSA) follows in the footsteps of giants such as the Deep Sea (1959) and the Polaris (1968) as well as the rest of the Memovox range through the…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller

The legendary Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller is a Big watch… The capital B has very much been used on purpose. Coming in at a seemingly huge 44mm in size, it doesn’t sit as wide as many large Panerai dive watches, but it is the acrophobia inducing height of 17.7mm that makes it feel a touch unwieldy,…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Tudor Black Bay 58 79030N

You want to be Connery’s Bond and wear a Rolex 6538 “big crown” while lusting over its warm gilt dial with elegantly proportioned case and sharp deep chamfers… but need something robust and modern that doesn’t cost you a house deposit.. meet the modern 114060 Ceramic Rolex Submariner, but wait..it’s way too modern and clinical..…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: NTH Näcken

If you take serious medication against homagitis I advise you to skip this perversion of a review on the NTH Näcken. I’d like to focus on aspects that strike to me as improvements on this milked platform instead of the usual “bang for buck” talk. Brand name & logo are combined in a vertically symmetric…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Vostok Amphibia – A for Adventure

The Vostok Amphibia has been around since 1967. The design principles and factory in Chistopol, Russia remained the same through the decades, delivering a true in-house product with rich history at a modest price point. The case features a lot of convex shapes! While the base looks quite chunky, it blends in nicely forming a…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Jaeger LeCoultre Master Compressor

So here is my Series 1 Jaeger LeCoultre Master Compressor chronograph ref 146.8.25. This watch had been on my hit list for some time before I was able to acquire a good condition variant. It oozes character in its masculinity from the super compressor case. The dial is laid out beautifully making it both functional…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Rolex Submariner 14060, A Great Companion

One fateful night back in 2014 while watching ‘Live and let die’, I made the decision to buy a Rolex Submariner. As an avid scuba diver I have always been drawn to dive watches with a clean aesthetic that can be worn everyday. I settled on the Rolex Submariner 14060 manufactured in 1990 for the…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Tudor Harrods Black Bay – Little brother to the Kermit

Behold the Tudor Harrods Black Bay – a limited/special edition of the Black Bay exclusive available from Harrods London. A dive watch with the same in-house movement as its other regular production brothers. At this price point, it’s hard to beat with so much going for it – depth rating of 200m, power reserve of…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver

In the nineties and the noughties the Royal Oak Offshore was the biggest, baddest luxury watch on the market, continuing to grow in size as the years progressed. But in the following decade tastes had begun to change slightly and downsizing began to occur. While the 44mm ROO was still a staple of the range,…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Rolex Submariner Date 16610 – “pre-ceramic”

Before I get to the review of my Rolex Submariner Date 16610 pre-ceramic, I will give you a bit of the back story. It was whilst leafing through National Geographic magazines as a kid that made me get the Rolex bug – It seemed from the ads, that if you were an adventurer, explorer, sailor,…
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02/01/2021