By TLex I do actually think of water, when I hear the Davidoff name. The Swiss luxury brand is no stranger to the element; with its fragrance, Cool Water well over a decade old, now. But I wouldn’t have associated them dive watches.
Nevertheless, Davidoff unveiled a new diver at Baselworld this year, which joins other models from its Velocity collection. With its rugged steel watch case and Swiss Made self winding mechanical movement, the Velocity Diver does look the part, but is just another pseudo diver for poseurs or is it a proper dive watch?
Its round 42mm case is in 316L Stainless steel. It features a screw-down 316L Stainless steel crown, with either black or blue PVD and black or blue rubber inserts.
It is fitted with a domed Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides and a unidirectional rotational divers bezel with a dive-time scale.
Further divers features include: luminescent hands and markers, a solid 316L Stainless steel screw-down engraved caseback and a water-resistance of 300 meters / 30atm.
Its sunburst dial is in either black, blue or silver with diamond cut rhodium steel markers and red highlights. It features: centralized hours, minutes and seconds. There’s a date aperture at 3 o’clock.
It is powered by a Swiss Made self-winding mechanical movement with hours, minutes, sweep seconds and date, a custom Davidoff rotor, côtes de Genève finishing, 25 jewels and power-reserve of 42 hours.
The Velocity Diver comes on either a polished and brushed finished Stainless steel bracelet or a rubber divers strap with a polished stainless steel folding clasp with engraved Davidoff logo.
I’ll reserve my final judgment until I handle one in person. Integrated strap and lugs aside, first impressions are pretty good - like the cologne, it doesn’t stink too baldly, does it!?
By TLex Introducing the new Squale Master, a 300 piece Limited Edition diver with a special automatic mechanical movement that was built in Switzerland to Squale’s own specifications. The movement is based on an ETA 2892-A2 with a power reserve indicator, a personalized skeleton rotor, Cote de Genève gilded finish, a 12 hour calendar and a date wheel with an internal magnifying lens.
The new Squale Master will be presented, as 2 new versions, one in steel and the other in marine bronze. Versions include: black, blue, light and dark gray or green. They will come a 100% water-repellent rubber straps with a leather core.
The Squale Master was released as part of the Swiss brand's latest innovation designed to improve their existing product protfolio. For example: on the 2002A 100atm model, the press and release bezel has been built with a new twelve-sided shape for easier removal; a new version of this series with satin finished case will also be released -
plus two new versions of the 1521 50atm model, one with a blue bezel and dial and 2nd with a bead-blasted case, treated by blasting it with fine sand to give it a stunning pearly color, absolutely non-reflective as in the best processes of this kind.
Divers features of the Squale Master include: a 44mm 316L Stainless steel or marine bronze case with; a unique Squale press and release bi-directional bezel, a single sided anti-reflective Sapphire crystal, a screwdown crown and fully pressure-resistant Sapphire crystal display back and 600 meters of water-resistance.
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By TLex Here's the second (smaller) new green bezel'd diver that Oris have added to their Aquis collection for 2014. Introducing the new Aquis Date.
Divers features include a 43mm Stainless steel case with a green ceramic bezel with its dive-time scale in white, a double domed Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on its inside, a Stainless steel, screwed and specially engraved caseback, a Stainless steel screwdown security crown and a water-resistance of 30 bar (300 m, 984 ft).
Its dial is in grey with C3 Swiss Superluminova applied to its hands and markers. The watch is powered by an Oris 733 (base SW 201) 26 jewel automatic movement with Oris' famous red rotor. Functions inc: central hands for hours, minutes and seconds, a date window (6 o'clock), instantaneous date, a date corrector, a fine timing device, stop-seconds and a power-reserve of 38hrs.
The watch is available with either: a Stainless steel metal bracelet with a security folding clasp and divers extension Ref. 01 733 7653 4137-07 8 26 01PEB or a black rubber divers strap with a Stainless steel security folding clasp Ref. 01 733 7653 4137-07 4 26 34EB.
By TLex Oris have added a couple new green bezel'd divers to their Aquis collection for 2014. This is the new Aquis Small Second, Date.
Divers features include a 46mm Stainless steel case with a green ceramic bezel with its dive-time scale in white, a double domed Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on its inside, a Stainless steel, screwed and specially engraved caseback, a Stainless steel screwdown security crown and a water-resistance of 50 bar (500 m, 1640 ft).
Its dial is in grey with C3 Swiss Superluminova applied to its hands and markers. The watch is powered by an Oris 743 (base SW 220) 28 jewel automatic caliber with Oris' famous red rotor. Functions inc: central hands for hours and minutes, sub-seconds (9 o'clock), a date window (6 o'clock), instantaneous date, a date corrector, a fine timing device, stop-seconds and a power-reserve of 38hrs.
The watch is available with either: a Stainless steel metal bracelet with a security folding clasp and divers extension Ref. 01 743 7673 4137-07 8 26 01PEB or a black rubber divers strap with a Stainless steel security folding clasp Ref. 01 743 7673 4137-07 4 26 34EB.
By TLex This is the new 2014 Oris Aquis Chronograph, equipped with a Stainless steel case, a unidirectional divers bezel with a black ceramic divers inlay and a reliable Swiss mechanical automatic chronograph movement.
Divers features include a 46mm Stainless
steel case with a ceramic bezel with its dive-time scale in white, a
double domed Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on its
inside, a Stainless steel, screwed and specially engraved caseback,
Stainless steel screwdown security crown and chrono-pushers, and a
water-resistance of 50 bar (500 m, 1640 ft).
Its dial is in black with BG W9 Swiss
Superluminova hands and markers. The watch is powered by an Oris 774
(base SW 500) 25 jewel automatic caliber with Oris' famous red rotor.
Functions inc: central hands for hours, minutes and chronograph 1/4
seconds, 3 sub-dials for continuous seconds, 30 minutes and 12 hours
counter, a date window (12 o'clock), a date corrector, a fine timing
device and a stop-second and a power-reserve of 48hrs.
The watch is available with either: a Stainless steel metal bracelet with a security folding clasp and divers extension Ref. 01 774 7655 4154-07 8 26 01PEB or a black rubber divers strap with a Stainless steel security folding clasp Ref. 01 774 7655 4154-07 4 26 34EB.
By TLex This is the Oris Aquis Red Limited Edition, a tribute to the Red Sea and dedicated to the ongoing support of marine life projects there. Among its many feature is a destro (left-handed) crown position.
Divers features include a 43mm Stainless steel case with a black ceramic bezel with its dive-time scale in red, a double domed Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on its inside, a Stainless steel, screwed and specially engraved caseback, a Stainless steel screwdown security crown and a water-resistance of 30 bar (300 m, 984 ft).
Its dial is in grey with BG W9 Swiss Superluminova applied hands and markers. The seconds indicator is in red to match. The watch is powered by an Oris 733 (base SW 200-1) 26 jewel automatic caliber with Oris' famous red rotor. Functions inc: central hands for hours, minutes and seconds, a date window (6 o'clock), instantaneous date, a date corrector, a fine timing device, stop-seconds and a power-reserve of 38hrs.
The watch is available with either: a Stainless steel metal bracelet with a security folding clasp and divers extension Ref. 01 733 7653 4183-Set MB or a black rubber divers strap with a Stainless steel security folding clasp Ref. 01 733 7653 4183-Set RS.
By TLex This superb looking diver is the new Edox Hydrosub Northpole Limited Edition watch; made in celebration of Edox's 130th Anniversary and due to equip the wrist of the first man to freedive under the polar ice-cap, Christian Redl AKA the Iceman, who will make the historic freedive in February 2015.
The 500m dive watch, which is due for a worldwide release this Autumn will be made in a Limited Edition of just 350 pieces features (that's not going to enough). It features an ample 46mm 316L Stainless steel case (49mm if we are to include the crown-protection system). It will be powered by an Edox 07 caliber that is a C.O.S.C-certified chronometer. MSRP is likely to be over 3400USD. I want one!
By TLex Tissot have added a new red bezel model to their existing Seastar 1000 Automatic family. Maintaining a water-resistance to a pressure of 30 bar (300 m/ 1’000 ft) the Tissot Seastar 1000 Automatic Gent Ref. T066.407.17.057.03 is equipped (as are all models in the family) with a Helium Escape Valve that allows it automatically depressurize its case.
Further diving features of the Swiss powered mechanical include: a unidirectional divers bezel, a black rubber strap with a divers buckle and extension and Swiss SuperLumiNova applied hands and dial markings.
By TLex First presented in 2012 in red, then awarded the 'revival' category prize by the jury of the 2013 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève the following year, the TUDOR Heritage Black Bay is back in cool midnight-blue for 2014.
Not just a mere re-edition, the Heritage Black Bay combines styling cues from both the past and the present. Its vintage aesthetic dates back almost 60 years to the brand’s first divers’ watch, the Tudor Submariner Ref. 7922, launched in 1954.
It owes its domed dial to the first Tudor Submariner models, its imposing winding crown to the 1958 Ref. 7924 AKA Big Crown and its characteristic Snowflake hands to models dating back to the late 60s to the early 80s.
Echoing Tudors military heritage, when the Marine Nationale Française were equipped with Tudor dive watches, which were generally blue -
its 41mm steel case is now fitted with a blue anodized aluminium crown tube in the same midnight-blue as the bezel. And its deep-black dial now sports contrasting silver-accented hour markers and hands with white luminescent material.
As are all models in the Tudor's Heritage line, the Black Bay comes with two bracelets or straps: an adjustable blue fabric strap with a sophisticated weave; and a choice of either a midnight-blue distressed leather strap to match the bezel, or a satin-finished and polished steel bracelet. Each come with a folding clasps.
By TLex Oris have made a Limited RED Edition of the Aquis in tribute to the Red Sea and dedicated to the ongoing support of marine life projects there. The Aquis Red Limited Edition watch features a ceramic bezel inlay with red dive-time indications and a grey dial with 5 minute indications and red seconds hand.
