The past ten years have seen a steady increasing number of companies that have released dive watches into the same pool. Many have sunk. Some still swim, buoyed on by the membership of various watch fora. The history of these watches goes back almost a decade to the first of the “microbrew” dive watches…
Bell & Ross began selling watches back in 1992, although in those days, their watches were made by Sinn. Since then, they have designed watches for astronauts, pilots, divers and even bomb disposal experts. Although announced at Basel this year, SalonQP was the first time that the BR 01-02 Compass…
Right. This one”s a little different. Most of what I know about this watch has been gleaned from French dive watch forums (see list below). There was a small arms race in watchmaking in the mid-90s: a race to develop oil-filled watches that would be able to resist incredible pressures (below…