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Dive Watch Wednesday: 5 Dive Watches You Can Wear With Your Santa Suit

Since it is “that time of year” again, we at DiveIntoWatches felt it was important to provide an important bit of consumer advice to anyone finding himself in the position of wearing a fake white beard and a red coat soon for some festive occasion or other. Specifically, we’ve found five dive watches that won’t...

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Dec 10, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The 12,000-Meter Dive Watch (and It’s Not a Rolex)

Last week, we introduced you to the watches that were used during the U.S. Navy’s “Project Nekton,” with the Rolex “Deep-Sea Special” becoming the first watch that ever actually reached a maximum depth of 10,916 meters, or 35,797 feet. This week, we show you a modern-day dive watch that its makers hope will achieve another...

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Dec 3, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Watches Inside and Outside the Bathyscaphe Trieste

In 1952, Rolex approached Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard to provide him with a specially designed watch for his upcoming deep dive trials in the newly constructed bathyscaphe “Trieste.” Instead of the spherical design that was originally planned, Rolex was able to build a more traditionally constructed — though still quite unusual-looking — watch, consisting basically...

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Nov 19, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The ’70s Style of the Certina SuperPH 1000M

Back in 2004, Certina reintroduced one of its more unusual looking dive watches, launched in the early 1970s, as a limited edition. A more modern interpretation of the original model, the reborn Certina DS-3 1000M (Ref.633.7128.42.61), featured an integrated helium release valve, a rather unusual hour hand (which made quite a few request for a...

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Nov 12, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Swiss Military’s Doxa Dive Watch

Due to the fact that the development of most early dive watches was heavily influenced, or even directly initiated, by armed services around the world, it is no surprise that a large number of these watches were in fact used and issued by them as well. It did, however, come as a surprise to us...

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Aug 27, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Challenge of Proving Your Dive Watch is “Extreme”

In 1953, the first dive watches featuring a rotating bezel appeared. They started with a depth rating of about 100 meters. It took another 10 years for makers of serially produced dive watches to reach the symbolic 1,000-meters mark. And, as we at Diveintowatches.com have discovered, achieving this milestone might have been considerably less difficult...

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Jul 30, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: Collecting the World’s Smallest Dive Watches

There is good news for all those watch enthusiasts struggling with watch sizes beyond 42 mm… and even better news for boys-at-heart that occasionally recall their beloved Hasbro “G.I. Joe Hard Hat Diver” figure from 1968 (that’s Ref. 7620, should you be wondering about it right now): Not unlike the available after-market parts and accessories...

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Jun 18, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Visconti Abyssus 3000M

The most eye-catching new dive watch released this year also seems to be the least discussed. This might be because its maker was nowhere to be found in the main exhibition hall at Baselworld 2014 and also. probably, because the brand in question happens to be better known for writing instruments than watches.

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Jun 11, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

WatchTime Live 2020: View All The Panels and Presentations

From October 21 to October 24, WatchTime hosted its very first WatchTime Live virtual event, an unprecedented online festival including the industry’s top brands, leaders, writers, and collectors for four days of presentations, panels, and discussions. Below you can find each of these videos, with more highlights planned for the weeks and months to come....

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Oct 31, 2020 by WatchTime

PRESS RELEASE

WatchTime Announces New Editor-in-Chief; Thompson to Become Editor-at-Large

Beginning March 1, 2016, longstanding WatchTime Editor-in-Chief Joe Thompson will assume his new role as Editor-at-Large. Mr. Thompson steps down as Editor-in-Chief after a successful 16-year run at the magazine’s helm, and he will remain with the publication as a writer and reporter in a part-time capacity. Blending passion for watches and the watch industry...

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Feb 23, 2016 by WatchTime

Only Watch 2015 Auction Results: Another Record for Patek Philippe

The sixth edition of the biennial Only Watch charity auction took place on November 7th at Geneva’s La Réserve, with 44 one-of-a-kind timepieces, sold under the hammer of watch expert Aurel Bacs, Co-Founder of Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo, raising an astounding 11.2 million Swiss francs ($11.2 million) for the cause of battling...

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Nov 9, 2015 by Mark Bernardo