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 […]
The Top 5 Dive Watches: The Doxa SUB 300T
In our last post, we presented our definitive, set-in-stone, never-to-be-challenged-by-anyone round-up of the top five dive watches of all time. Now that that thorny subject has been put to rest in perpetuity, we get to delve a little deeper into each of the finalists and explore just what it is that makes them so worthy […]
The BeckerTime Guide to the Top 5 Dive Watches of All Time
There are a number of different types of watch, the category into which they slot dictated by both their style and their various functions. Arguably the most popular genre, of course, is the dive watch. However, it is an unusual class of timepiece for several reasons. To start with, their usefulness was negated almost as […]