This Edox Skydiver Aged Steel Looks 300 Years Old

For this 2022 Skydiver Date 80126-3VIN-GDN, Edox used a manufacturing process that gave the watch an interesting "Aged Steel" look.

For this 2022 Skydiver Date 80126-3VIN-GDN, Edox used a manufacturing process that gave the watch an interesting "Aged Steel" look.

The 2022 Deep Blue Rally Diver 1000 comes in a nonspecific Submariner-style case and a pretty meh caliber. What saves it is the jovial dial.

The 2018 Ulysse Nardin Diver 42 offers a beautiful, clean exterior, superior build quality, and... a cheap(ish) automatic movement.

In 2017, Doxa has released several "anniversary" timekeepers that celebrate the brand's first semicentennial in the business of making professional diving tools. While the blackfaced Sharkhunter and the silver-faced Searambler attracted their fair share of attention from collectors and, um, more normal enthusiasts alike, it was the Sub 300 "Black Lung" Limited-Edition automatic diver that broke the brand's own sales record with the whole bunch being pre-ordered during the first 24 hours after registration officially commenced.

The 2016 Eberhard & Co. Scafograf 300 (ref. 41034) looks like a faithful recreation of the classic Scafograf from the 1950s. Offering you a nice combination of a robust Swiss-made movement, adequate water resistance rating of 300 meters, and an elegant exterior, it is mildly overpriced but will probably be successful in the long run when all sorts of discounts and rebates kick in.

The 2016 Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage (refs. AL-525S4H6 & AL-525G4H6) collection is a reference to the brand's "days of independence." Back in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, the company introduced one beautiful model after another. Although I can't call it a real "homage" (and I like that it is not,) this new pair of timepieces does a good job at recreating the spirit of the days long gone. Perhaps, the only thing that somehow devalues these gorgeous retro-styled models -besides the fact that, differing so much from other members of the Seastrong family, it needed to become a foundation of a completely new collection- is the simple mass-produced mechanism: each of these beauties just screams for a hand-wound NOS job!