Wenger’s SeaForce line of diving watches, which is, by the way, quite popular among enthusiasts searching for a “Swiss Made” beater on a tight budget, has recently received a comprehensive update with a new Wenger SeaForce Chronograph timekeeper. Still featuring the same basic styling, the refreshed model not only adds chronograph functionality, but also looks a lot more modern than their older three-hander.
Around 18 months ago, Rolex’s “cheaper” brand Tudor has unveiled its Tudor Heritage Chronograph (Ref. 70330) automatic watch that paid tribute to the legendary Tudor Oysterdate from the 1970s. The resemblance between the original and the reissue was, well, a little less than obvious, so, learning on past mistakes the brand decided to offer this new Tudor Heritage Chrono Blue featuring styling that makes it look almost like a faithful recreation of the old “Montecarlo” version of the same Oysterdate range.
Presented in a lightweight titanium body, the new Technomarine BlackReef Ti Ultimate watch features a highly reliably Swiss made automatic movement and is adorned with whole 54 precious stones covering its unidirectional rotating bezel. So far, this is the most bizarre diver that I’ve seen this year.
Breitling has just informed the press that it is updating its trendy SuperOcean line of diving watches. According to their press release, the new Breitling SuperOcean 42 Mariner Blue will be, as usual, issued as a limited edition model and will feature a new Mariner Blue color scheme.
Baselworld 2013 will finally close its doors tomorrow, but there are still dozens of watches I plan to tell you about during the coming weeks. Among them, the new Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe clearly stands out thanks to its vintage-styled body, which is crafted using the most high-tech materials and manufacturing processes.
For this year, ML has updated its Pontos family of “active lifestyle” watches. Besides the sporty Pontos S Extreme and Pontos Chronographe that are similar in styling to the last year’s Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diving Chronograph, the Swiss watchmaker has also revealed a professional-grade Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver. Rated for water resistance of impressive 600 meters, the watch is claimed to be designed to professional specifications, but, for some unknown reason, is supplied on a not particularly practical leather strap.
The Swiss watchmaking specialist enters the year 2013 with a radically redesigned version of its Girard-Perregaux Sea Hawk “professional” diving watch. Rated for a pretty much impressive water resistance of whole 1000 meters, the refreshed Girard-Perregaux Sea Hawk 1000M watch gives you probably the best possible combination of reliability, build quality and design.
Here comes another good one from the young American watchmakers. Called Deep Blue Daynight Recon T100 White, the new semi-professional diver gives you an easily recognizable design with elegant dial sporting luminous tritium tubes and a pretty much impressive water resistance rating of 500 meters.
With its new JeanRichard Aquascope Diver Monocoque automatic diving watch, the Swiss brand successfully bridges the stylistic gap between its original Aquascope and Highlands collections. Besides the refreshed dial, the new version of the Aquascope Monocoque has also received the same self-winding movement that powers the new limited edition Highlands CDC Carbon that was released last month.
Similar in styling to the limited edition Edox Chronodakar Chronograph that was unveiled earlier this month, the new Edox Iceman II brings you a trendy black body with delicious red accents on the matt black dial as well as on the ceramic bezel with an inevitable diving scale.
