It must be dive watch season because we are going on a few dive watch giveaways in a row here on aBlogtoWatch. For February 2017, you can win an Ocean Predator Diver watch by the Stranger watch company. The winner read more…
The vintage-inspired trend that overshadows the watch market these past few years is still evolving, with most companies more or less digging in their archives, trying to find vintage designs, to bring them back in life. Although this may show the difficult position of the Swiss watch industry as a whole, it can be argued that it has some benefits. Perhaps the most important one is that the market is full of great new watches. One of these is arguably the new Squale Squalematic 60 Atmos, a vintage-inspired dive watch that comes from a company with great pedigree. So we placed it under the Monochrome microscope and here are our thoughts.
A 1,000-meter-water-resistant bronze case with a meteorite dial for under $750 in a watch that actually gets made in volume and delivered – tell me if that wasn’t a glaring niche in the market. The Zelos Hammerhead is the latest and greatest proof of why indie brands are so successful.
Panerai watches are great. They look super-cool, they have that unique aura of a robust and vintage dive watch mixed with that Italian je-ne-sais-quoi. They are icons of watchmaking. Still, there might be one issue with these watches. Most are sized for lumberjacks’ wrists. If the 45mm or 47mm diameters participate to the look (and they are actually easier to wear than what you can expect), a smaller size could be welcome. That’s what happened with the Panerai Luminor Due, the smaller, slimmer and dressier versions of the icon. But what if you want the sporty look? Well, for the SIHH 2017, the answer came in the name of the Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Oro Rosso 42mm PAM00684, the small & gold Luminor Submersible that rocks.
A 42mm steel Panerai Luminor Submersible. Need I say more?
Just a short time left in January & for your chance to win a Zelos Hammerhead 1000m Diver watch in this month’s aBlogtoWatch watch giveaway.
Panerai appears to be looking to replicate the success of the original green-dialed PAM 382 “Bronzo” from 2011 with the newly announced Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Bronzo PAM 671, or “Blue Bronzo” – a beautiful and worthy successor to the watch that put bronze into the luxury spotlight and ultimately helped make patina great again.
While the headlines at SIHH 2017 are more or less dominated by incredible complications and equally incredible price tags, it’s nice – almost refreshing – to find that some brands like TAG Heuer haven’t totally abandoned accessibility.
At SIHH 2017, Panerai announced a whole bunch of new Submersible watches, and one of the more interesting ones is this, the Luminor Submersible 1950 BMG-TECH 3 Days Automatic PAM692 watch. Find out what’s unique about it here.
For the 2017 America’s Cup, luxury Swiss watch manufacturer Ulysse Nardin will be releasing the Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing watch in their continued partnership with professional Swedish sailing team Artemis Racing. It’s a logical partnership for a company with such a deep connection to maritime timekeeping, but the Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing watch should also be able to stand on its own merits as a watch made to live on the high seas – or under them.