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Montoir Dive Watch makes Swiss-made timepieces accessible to all

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The adjective “Scandinavian” carries a lot of weight in the production and design industry. The term “Swiss-made” is a distinction given to products that have achieved a high degree of quality and craftsmanship thanks to the spirit and practices embraced by denizens of Switzerland, characteristics best embodied by the mechanical timepieces hailing from that country. Unfortunately, that same level of quality and elegance has made these products well beyond the reach of most people, which is good for their image but bad for spreading the appreciation of Swiss-made products. Fortunately, there are brands that strive to cast their nets wider, and this handsome mechanical watch is a glowing example of a well-made Scandinavian product that isn’t just a beautiful fashion accessory but also a loyal companion for all occasions and environments.

Designer: Montoir Watches

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It’s almost as if Switzerland itself was created to embody the traits of good design. From the majestic peaks of the Swiss Alps to the breathtaking landscapes of the French Riviera down south, everything about the place serves as an inspiration for designers and makers across the globe. But unlike these natural galleries of beauty, Swiss-made products, particularly watches, have traditionally been kept behind expensive walled gardens accessible to only a few. Worse, many of these glamorous timepieces seem to be made to be worn only on very special occasions, limiting the enjoyment of their external and internal beauty to a very small number of opportunities.

The Montoir Dive Watch, however, breaks down those walls to wrap the spirit of adventure inspired by these locales in a beautiful Swiss-made timepiece and make it available to more people around the world. The watch bears a contemporary yet clean design, hallmarks of the famed Scandinavian minimalism, that make it look quite at home in any setting. The Swiss-made classic Sellita SW200-1 Automatic Movement provides the accuracy, reliability, and ease of servicing that you’ve come to expect from such luxurious watches.

Making a timepiece accessible for all isn’t just about price or location, either. It’s about making sure it can stay on your wrist wherever you are, whether it’s in a boardroom meeting, a raving party, or even a quick dive in a pool. With a brushed 316L stainless steel body topped by a top hat double dome sapphire crystal glass, the watch exudes both elegance and durability at the same time, while quick-release recycled FKM (fluoroelastomer) straps enhance the watch’s resilience in any environment. It also boasts a 20ATM water resistance of up to 200 meters in depth, and Superluminova BGW9 markings allow you to tell the time even in the darkest depths or the blackest nights. On the back is an embossed relief of a diver in old yet iconic equipment, emphasizing the watch’s all-around usability even in places where most Swiss-made watchers would never dare tread.

We’ve gone past an age when high-quality products are things that only the elite can afford. Good design, after all, is something everyone can enjoy, and this Swiss-made watch embodies that goal to perfection, with a super early bird VIP price of $375. Available in five colors, including Black, White, Blue, Cyan, and even Orange, the Montoir Dive Watch puts a beautiful reminder on your wrist that the spirit of adventure calls anyone and everyone, and this timeless watch is the perfect companion for those exciting and memorable journeys.

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The Seiko Mai tabletop Alarm Clock looks like adorably enlarged versions of their iconic Dive Watch

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The only difference is the lack of a strap, and the fact that the crown now sits at the 12 o’clock position instead.

Meet the Seiko Mai, a scaled-up version of the Japanese watchmaker’s famed SKX dive-watch collection. Designed, instead, as a tabletop clock, the Mai has an aesthetic that isn’t easy to miss. It’s pretty impressively true to its inspiration, and comes with the numbered bezel sitting against the clock’s minimalist body. The bezel doesn’t rotate, but the clock DOES come with a night feature that mimics the original, and an alarm function that can be toggled from the back, and snoozed on days where you just want those 5 more minutes in bed.

Designer: Seiko

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The Mai Alarm Clock comes in as many as 7 different color variants, modeled on the color combos seen in Seiko’s own watches. The clocks are portable for travel, running on a single AA battery, with a quartz movement on the inside and a silent sweeping seconds hand that eschews the annoying ticking sound found on most table clocks.

The night-light allows you to see the time even in the dark, glowing with the familiar Superluminova-inspired green hue seen on the watches. Powered by an LED, the night light also flashes when your alarm goes off, along with a beeping sound that’s loud enough to wake up even the most sound sleepers.

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Pompeak’s stunning Sub-Aquatic automatic dive watch can be submerged up to 200 meters underwater!

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I’ve come to associate the Pompeak brand with the 3 Ds – Dapper Design, and Diversity. Founded by brother-duo David & Noah Pomphrey, Pompeak has managed to, in a limited span of time, surprise and stun the watch aficionado community with incredibly designed, precisely manufactured, dapper-looking watches, without sporting that premium price tag. With their latest watch, the Sub-Aquatic, Pompeak hopes to add a little diversity to their lineup by building a watch centered around performance… specifically, performance underwater.

Meet the Sub-Aquatic, a timepiece that combines the best that British design has to offer with the best that Swiss engineering has to offer. Classy on the outside, capable on the inside, the Sub-Aquatic is a 40mm dive watch that’s been designed, tested, and perfected over the last 12 months. With a body made out of brushed and highly polished 904L Stainless Steel, a ceramic rotating bezel, incredibly powerful Super-LumiNova markings, and a sapphire crystal display capping it all, the Sub-Aquatic looks stunning out in the open, but it really shines when you venture into the waters. Equipped with 200M water-resistance, the Sub-Aquatic is a watch that isn’t afraid of being thrown into the deep end.

The Sub-Aquatic is a pretty serious flex from Pompeak, and propels them as a watch brand to be reckoned with. The 904L Steel is an upgrade from the default 316L Steel, but it’s in every way a premium, luxury metal and comes with more chromium in the alloy that gives it an unmistakable polished appearance and unbeatable corrosion resistance. Given the circumstances under which the Sub-Aquatic watch is meant to be used, the timepiece comes with high-visibility BGW9 Swiss Super-LumiNova markings on the rotating bezel as well as on the watch face, allowing the numbers to be visible even at the depths of the ocean. The visibility of the numbers is increased further by the presence of a double-domed Sapphire crystal on the top, complete with multiple Anti-Reflective (AR) coatings to give the watch-face utmost clarity. The watch face itself is simple and sophisticated, prioritizing minimalist cleanliness more than anything. The face sports a dark-ish blue gradient hue that sets the perfect contrast for the white, LumiNova coated numbers… and a date window at the 3 o’clock position gives you all the information you need at a mere glance. On the inside, a self-winding Sellita SW200-1 movement gives the watch its life, lending its signature Swiss-backed accuracy to the timepiece.

Pompeak’s dive-watch (its first one so far) manages to pull it all off while still sticking to its ethos of being honestly priced. With a Kickstarter launch price of just £389 ($530), the watch matches up to (and surpasses) other luxury brands with its use of high-end materials like sapphire crystal and 904L Steel, and its stunning water-resistance of 20ATM (200 meters). The watch comes in two variants (a textured face versus a flat gradient face) with a choice between a classic stainless steel link bracelet and a more durable matte rubber strap. Along with its Dapper Design and Diversity, Pompeak adds Durability to the Sub-Aquatic too, giving you a 2-year warranty on the timepiece.

Designers: Pompeak Watches

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Pompeak Sub-Aquatic: British Design Meets Swiss Movement

Pompeak is back with their third collection and their first-ever dive watch. The Sub-Aquatic is a fusion of British design, high quality materials and Swiss automatic movements, with a price point to contrast the premium features.

Swiss Automatic Movement

The Sellita SW200-1 is recognized as one of the best work horse movements around. Often found in watches costing thousands, features include: hacking, hand winding and a quick set date function. A truly outstanding display of horology.

SW200-1 Specs:

– Self-Winding Mechanism
– 28,800 Vibrations per hour
– 26 Jewels
– 38 Hour Power Reserve
– Automatic/self-winding watches are often chosen as the perfect combination of character and heritage of the mechanical watch, without the need to manually wind the movement each day.

Dial Option 1: 3D Textured Dial

With bold hands and applied indices contrasting the 3D textured dial, the designers have added depth to what is traditionally a very generic watch face.

Dial Option 2: Gradient Dial

For the stunning yet clean look, the team has introduced a deep blue/black gradient dial.

Super-LumiNova

Dive down (or switch the off lights) and the watch really shines thanks to the Swiss Super-LumiNova (BGW9) filled hands, indices and bezel. BGW9 Lume has a long lasting, blue glow at night, with a clean white look in the day.

The Case

The inspirations for this case may be clear, 40mm of highly polished and brushed 904L Stainless steel, topped with a 120 click, uni-directional ceramic bezel. Historically 904L has been reserved for a select few watches costing big bucks, largely due to the increased complications in sourcing and processing, however as the technology and machinery becomes more widely available, the cost associated also comes down.

904L is often referred to as a corrosion-resistant superalloy due to its exceptional, almost perfect, aging properties, even in the harshest of environments.

Water Resistance

Frequent Scuba Divers use a digital dive computer as their main life saving tool, but who doesn’t want a watch that can survive just about anywhere they can? That’s why the team have doubled the minimum water resistance required for a “divers” watch with 20ATM – Up to 200m.

The Bezel

The elapsed time bezel is used to measure total dive time and decompression stops – a crucial addition to any dive watch. With a 120 click uni-directional bezel and ceramic insert, the timepiece combines precise timing with an almost scratch proof material, complete with a refined and elegant shine. The uni-directional feature means the bezel will only rotate counter-clockwise and any accidental knocks will only “add” to the elapsed time.

The Glass

Sapphire Crystal is the most scratch resistant you can get, with a hardness only inferior to diamond. The double domed, solid sapphire crystal is no different, with added Anti-Reflective (AR) coatings ensuring crystal clear readability in all conditions.

The Straps

Choose between a classic stainless steel link bracelet with highly polished center links, complete with a sliding micro adjust clasp or an extremely durable rubber strap complete with quick release pins for easy, yet secure, on/off.

Technical Dimensions

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The Dango Watches are modular, allowing you to adjust it to suit your needs…

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A lot of care and curation goes into the outfit you wear everyday. From your shirt, all the way to your shoes, everything is picked compliment one another in order to look great as a whole. The Dango Modular Watch takes on a similar approach.

Split a watch into three key details, the face, the lugs, and the band, Dango’s watch comes with interchangeable parts, allowing you to easily build a watch the way you build an outfit…with care, consideration, and a sense of style. The Dango Watch’s dial comes in three different design variants. A minimal-yet-solid Trek variant for people who want a watch face that’s bold but not overdone; a more chunky, diver-friendly variant titled the Dive, that’s armed with luminescent dials and a water resistance of up to 200 ATM; and lastly, a variant for the serious wristwatch aficionado, the Chrono, with its three subdials, also including a stopwatch.

The three visual styles broadly cater to three different personas (although it’s highly likely that you could like more than one, just like me), but boast of the same ability to switch up bands and lugs. They’re built to be inter-compatible (so that bands and lugs can be used between too), and you can even ditch the lug by attaching the band directly to the watch’s body. While visually different, the watches come with the same attention to detail and level of construction we’ve come to know and love with all of Dango’s EDC products. Each watch is powered by a Swiss Ronda Movement encased in a 316L stainless steel casing and viewed through a sapphire crystal. While a RONDA Cal. # 515-2 powers the Dive and the Trek, giving both variants a battery life of 45 months, the Chrono comes with a RONDA Cal. # 3540.D, packed with a larger battery that powers it for 54 months. All three watch styles pack a date window too, for extra measure.

At the very heart of the Dango watch is its ability to be modular. The interchangeable lugs and bands instantly allow the watch faces to take on different avatars, allowing some to go well with casual apparel, some to complement a leather jacket, and others to look great with a suit and a tie. With a choice between NATO, Stainless Steel, Silicone, and Horween leather straps, you can simply and easily change the way the watch looks on your wrist (even choosing to use or ditch the lugs to create unique styles), allowing it to be crafted with the care and diligence you’d take to choose your outfit… and it its strong, robust, long-lasting build, the Dango will see you through all your style-updates and changes through the years!

Designers: Thuan Tran, Binh Tran & Charlie Carroll

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Dango Modular Watches with Quick Release Lugs and Straps come with Swiss Movement, Fine Materials and Modular Components. The line includes: the TREK – a field watch, DIVE – a sport watch that accompanies you on every adventure, and CHRONO – an automotive inspired chronograph watch.

The TK-01 Trek, DV-01 Dive and CR-01 Chrono. Split a watch into three key details, the face, the lugs, and the band, Dango’s watch comes with interchangeable parts, allowing you to easily build a watch the way you build an outfit…with care, consideration, and a sense of style.

The Design Story – The Dango Watch’s dial comes in three different design variants. A minimal-yet-solid Trek variant for people who want a watch face that’s bold but not overdone; a more chunky, diver-friendly variant titled the Dive, that’s armed with luminescent dials and a water resistance of up to 200 ATM; and lastly, a variant for the serious wristwatch aficionado, the Chrono, with its three subdials, also including a stopwatch.

The Trek Watch

The Dive Watch

The Chrono Watch

Features

Each watch is powered by a Swiss Ronda Movement encased in a 316L stainless steel casing and viewed through a sapphire crystal. All of the watches come equipped with interchangeable lugs & quick release straps providing comfort, versatility and character.

Interchangeable Lugs and Straps along with Quick Release Spring Bars

How to change the lugs.

How to change the watch strap.

The watch buckle.

Available Straps: Nato Strap, Ventilated Silicone Sport Band, Horween Leather Strap and Stainless Steel Bracelet with Micro Adjustment Buckle. Horween Leather offers an unparalleled blend of quality, consistency, responsiveness, and innovation. It is available on the TK-01 TREK Watch or the CR-01 Chronograph Watch.

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