Category: Diver
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Timex Diver and Dive-Like Survey Part 1: 1966-1990
A Chunk of Timex History Regarding Diver Themes What an odd and slightly academic title? It just came out. For years I have been thinking about and collecting various Timex models that are related to the concept of a Dive Watch. One of my favorite categories of watches is the the Dive Watch category. I…
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Marine Star Glory Days Part 5
Some more great finds It’s been a strange summer so far. Non-watch projects have kept me away from writing about watches. I have been reading a lot about watches, as usual, but trying to buy fewer watches and even trying to sell a few! That has been harder than expected..I continue to work with my…
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Seiko 5 Sample
Taking the Plunge (and hike) with Old and New I was writing more than one post at a time. Sometimes I start a post topic and get side tracked. Or research for one delays things, so I start another. I started reading about the Seiko 5 lines, both old and new, recently. As I read…
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Timex Allied Coastline
A Crossover in the Archive Era It took a while for the Allied Coastline (AC) to grow on me. At first contact is seemed strange. I was mostly interested in 38mm and 40mm Timex lines and the Coastline was 43mm and I was having trouble seeing where it fit in with the Mk1s, Allieds and…
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Rubber Strap Study
Reflections on finding that just right match I expected to move on to other things besides my new Timex Deepwater Reef, but it presents an opportunity to talk about one of my favorite things; watch straps. Like many of you, I have more straps than I do watches. If you want to do different things…
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Timex Deepwater Reef 200 41mm Hands On
That didn’t take long No sooner had I finished my first draft post on the Reef 41mm diver, when I went and ordered two. I suppose that was a good idea since Timex was out of stock in less than a week on all styles. It was a bit compulsive for me, but I really…
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Timex Deepwater Reef 200 41mm
Timex enters the Diver fray, as only Timex can I’m jumping right on this. Normally I write about watches I have discovered years after they were released. For this new Timex release I just stumbled onto this morning, I had to get out a lot of built-up contemplation. I never really wanted to write watch…