Early Vintage ”Dive” Watches
Friends, You all know my fascination for early Vintage “Dive” Watches. I have put the dive in quotation marks due to these watches do not carry some of the typical trades of what is considered a dive watch today. Features like a turning diver’s bezel, scr...
The common point of all of those you showed is that they don't have a bezel.
Which is curious, because since 1953 the " modern " diving watches had this feature, inaugurated by Blancpain and Rolex. BUT they are marvellous examples. The Kontiki and the Eberhard, without forgetting the Zenith S 58. The GP is intriguing, indeed. I li...
I guess many were in a hurry to create a divers watch....
And due to that skipped the turning bezel... Or like JLC that had a non-turning bezel on their first diver, the Deep Sea Alarm...! Best, my friend Blomman
Yes, that was a surprising feature on the JLC DSA, but...
at least you had another way to measure the elapsed time via the alarm...
Diving was very primitive...
...in the early days. And dive watches were expensive, as much as the rest of the gear combined. It sounds stupidly dangerous but often dive timing back then was not done with a watch, but when your air started to run out. It got hard to breathe, so you p...
Also the Zodiac Seawolf, which first appeared in 1953 as a response to Malubier's specification.
Zodiac made the Seawolf and the Aerospace GMT in 100m "waterproof" snap-back cases through the late sixties, and then graduated to higher water resistance cases. Here's a first-generation Seawolf, not mine, from a user on the Vintage Zodiacs forum: ca. 19...
Reasonably. But it may have been 1954 before the first ones appeared on shelves.
The 1955 catalog did not describe the Seawolf as being "new". Seawolf listing in 1955 catalog --Rick ...
The Sea Wolf and the Deep Diver second generation have very similar cases
Both with snap-back cases. I should make a side-by-side shot, if I only could remember where I put my Sea Wolf.... Best Blomman ...