The Top 5 Dive Watches: The Rolex Submariner
And so we come to the number one spot on our list of the top 5 dive watches of all time, and the only watch that could ever fill it… There have been other timepieces created throughout history which could be described as influential; Speedmaster, Royal Oak, GMT-Master, etc. But in terms of all-round importance, […]
The Top 5 Dive Watches: The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
If you study up enough on the history of iconic watches (which I thought I had) you get to know the most famous stories very well. Eventually, you accept them as fact and defend them against any view put forward by sceptics. It gets really interesting, then, if one of said sceptics suddenly turns up […]
The Top 5 Dive Watches: The Omega Seamaster Professional 300M
I saw an interview once with Desmond Llewelyn, the much-missed actor who made the role of 007’s cantankerous quartermaster, Q, his own in a total of 17 Bond films. In it, he was asked to chime in on that most perennial of questions of which I’m sure he was thoroughly sick; who is the best […]
The Top 5 Dive Watches: The Panerai Submersible
The Eiffel Tower, Mickey Mouse, The Statue of Liberty, Batman; some things are recognizable just by their silhouettes. To that list we can easily add the Panerai Submersible. Its rounded square case is distinctive enough on its own, but when you then add the unmistakable crescent moon of its innovative crown guard, it offers as […]