The Skinny 42mm Titanium case and bracelet Water resistance – 300 meters Price upon release – $2495 Released August 2022 Movement – Sellita SW200-1 COSC Certified (date wheel active, see below) A Watch Unto Itself We could look at all of the competition this titanium Pro Diver Super Sea Wolf is up against, but I… Read more »
Originally a Swiss watch company, Zodiac issued the Sea Wolf in 1953, tying Blancpain and beating Rolex with the first commercial release of a dive watch. Zodiac puttered out during the Quartz Crisis, but in 2001 Fossil Watches bought the Zodiac name and prepared for a relaunch. The revived Zodiac released the first modern Sea Wolf in 2015. Fossil owns and operates Swiss Technology Productions (STP), which builds the ETA/Sellita-equivalent movements used in the modern Super Sea Wolf
A unique and indispensable resource, our Iteration Trackers provide chronological information on all iterations of a specific watch model. Model Overview The Tudor Pelagos is meant for professional SCUBA diving. It takes features from vintage Tudor models, including the square markers and “snowflake” hands, but its construction is modern in titanium and with exceptional water… Read more »
A unique and indispensable resource, our Iteration Trackers provide chronological information on all iterations of a specific watch model. Model Overview The Oris Divers Sixty-Five is a very popular 21st-century retro-styled dive watch based on a mid-1960s model. The Divers Sixty-Five is widely considered to have started the “retro diver” phenomenon of the 2010s. The Divers… Read more »
A unique and indispensable resource, our Iteration Trackers provide chronological information on all iterations of a specific watch model. Model Overview The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight is an immensely popular retro-styled dive watch taking inspiration from Rolex and Tudor Submariners dating from the 1950s through the 1970s. Taking it’s basic form from the larger 41mm… Read more »
The Skinny 40mm 100 meters water resistance Calibre 400 in-house movement with 5-day power reserve and date Date of release: August 2022 Price upon release: $3500 on leather, $3700 on bracelet Oris Going Upmarket What had always made buying an Oris Diver Sixty-Five a no-brainer was its unbeatable price-to-quality ratio (under $2000 upon release in… Read more »
The Skinny 39mm Solid yellow gold case and bracelet Caliber 8801 METAS-certified Co-axial auto-winding movement with date Precision: -2/+2 secs/day from factory Year of release: 2020 Reference: 131.50.39.20.02.002 $29,800 Hanging Tough with the Big Three Amidst the integrated-bracelet-watch renaissance of the 2020s, the 39mm solid yellow gold Omega Constellation contends with heavy-hitting legends from The… Read more »
Contributor and photographer Gareth Munden ponders his experience of virtual representations of vintage-inspired recreations, those recreations in person, and then asks how they stack up against vintage watches. Images by Gareth Munden. Tudor Ranger on loan from Stuart Young. Encountering The Virtual Tudor Ranger Via Social Media On Friday July the 8th 2022, I was… Read more »
The Skinny 44mm Solid red gold case with 50 meters water resistance In-house caliber P.9010 autowinding with 72 hours of power, date, sub-seconds, and jumping hour hand Year of release: 2020 $22,900 Panerai On Par With The Holy Trinity It’s been liberating to shed my expectation that Panerai should – in accordance with rather dubious… Read more »
The Skinny 41mm x 14.6mm Tudor Manufacture Calibre MT5652 GMT, 70-hour power reserve, COSC certification Steel and Gold 200m water resistance Release year: 2022 $4300 on straps, $5500 with bracelet Imitating Its Way to Uniqueness It can be difficult to intellectually separate Tudor from Rolex. Rolex owns Tudor, their mutual technologies are well known, and the… Read more »