This is a very quick purchase, decided the moment I had a good feel of it.

What attracts me to the this model is
- Red, I just love red.
- Better movement, hacks, hand winds. I would have ignore if it’s a 7S.

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Vintage NOS Diver

The reason why I bought this is because it’s a limited edition series build from new old stock parts that Aquadive kept in their inventory.

Quoting Aquadive:

We have in our possession a very limited number of new old stock pieces of this classic 60s diver. A piece of dive watch history, a piece of Aquadive. This genuine NOS (New Old Stock) Aquadive has a Swiss hand made case equipped with a bidirectional rotating bezel and a classic aluminum insert. The cases were found fully assembled with a heslite domed crystal in the old Aquadive inventory. We have carefully re-assembled them by hand using all new gaskets. This watch had/has a depth rating of 660ft, and is equipped with a new Aquadive dial with applied superluminova markers. It is operated by a new Swiss Made genuine ETA 2824-2, 25 jewel movement replacing the original movement in order to guarantee performance for years to come.

The white rectangular hands looks good matching the hour indices.

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Finally, I got some time with my camera + natural lighting after yesterday’s unboxing armed with just my iPhone 4S.

Aquadive Bathyscaphe 100

I am very impressed with the solid built of the watch, there’s definitely a lot of wrist presence with the Bathyscaphe 100.

The whole dial design, hour markers and the choice of hands makes it very attractive as a modern diver yet retain some of the old designs.

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Finally, just a week since I placed my order @ www.aquadive.com

The unboxing begins…

Big box…

What’s that..

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I hope this will be the last piece for 2011.

I went to K2 to service my Aqua Dive Caribbean, then as usual, Mr Goh will bring some of his latest goods for us to take a look.

He brought out 2 Citizens, saying he just got it like that day or the day before.

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Just join the Speedmaster club  I wasn’t really keen on one till I saw the Mark II, love the case. Bigger, thicker and hefty.

The Omega Speedmaster Mark II also known as ST 145.0014.

Reference

ST 145.0014

International collection

1969

Movement

Type: Manual winding (mechanical)

Caliber number: 861

Created in 1968
17 jewels
Formerly called “27 CHRO C12 PC”
Used on second generation “moon watches”.

Functions

Tachymeter, Chronograph

Case

Stainless steel

Case back

Screw-in

Dial

Mat black (or luminous grey with burgundy/orange scale), with luminous hour markers, white luminous hands, and inside tachometer scale.

Crystal

Mineral (flat)

Bracelet

Stainless steel (attached)

Water resistance

60 meters

The condition is really great, lines well defined, could be refinish or polish at some point.

Face, dial and hands are in very good condition.

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During our last Seiko Club Singapore gathering, a Russian piece from Poljot International – Nights Of Petersburg appear among one of the collectors and he decided to let it go, so I took over this lovely piece.

Side by side with another Poljot International model that I have.

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Finally found this diver from Poljot. Poljot watches are mainly dress, chronographs but never a diver except this piece.

The condition is consider pretty good as the bezel is plastic, the markers are usually worn off and the second hand often replaced.

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I always wanted to add a DOXA SUB to my collection, I finally found one that meets my needs, 1 with a GMT function.

For the DOXA SUB 750T GMT DivingStar, it has the ability to track 3 time zones !

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Sandoz could be the first watch company to develop a monobloc watch case that could meet the water resistance of 1000m.

Of course this are just based on information I got from this site: http://www.rruegger.ch/sandoz_typhoon.htm
http://www.rruegger.ch/first_1000m_dive_watch.htm

Whether it’s Jenny or Sandoz, they are part of my collection now, part of the monobloc case theme.

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