Is that still related to your other thread? /boom tish, all the best though.
I think you might be right about the sub dial, does it need to be blown up to eat into the 7 & 5 like on the Omega? Would give it more presence. Is it even possible with the new movements?
Love the hands though!
Will the sub dial be plain, or have any turning texture to it?
Really excited for this one.
Smiths Astral Diver.
Such a cool watch and the timing seems right with Seiko and Tudor releasing smaller dive watches.
https://wornandwound.com/library/upl...dive-watch.jpg
The hands never look right to me, far too small and skinny.
Vacheron 222, no doubt!
This would be nice:
https://i.imgur.com/GV5NAFh.jpg
but at 38 or 39mm.
Knowing Omega they probably trademarked "pie pan", so it might have to be the Smiths flan platter.
Probably too close to the PRS-54 to fit into the current Timefactors lineup, anyway.
...or one of these:
https://i.imgur.com/dVJRiM1.jpg
but 36mm.
The movement is pretty decent/standard SmithS fare but so many period budget divers used this case, the operative word being 'budget'. For me as a pretty avid SmithS collector I have felt for many years that I can't justify the price that these fetch, given the quality of the case. They do have many fans though for sure. It would be interesting to see an aesthetically faithful 'Eddie' version with improvements. Mind you with the recent return of the PRS82 is another diver needed in the line up??
The case backs are currently being manufactured to include the NATO Stock Numbers I got for them. Here's an updated render, there's also an oliver strap in the same design.
http://www.tz-uk.com/pics/DD12-1024.jpg
Eddie
Oh boy, those look great.
These look absolutely superb!
I've been looking forward to seeing what new developments might be next, and this looks a cracker.
http://www.tz-uk.com/pics/RS2024.jpg
Due in September.
Eddie
Good to see you back posting boss, [emoji106]
Totally agree the Navitimer would make an interesting hommage.
Another option would be the UN Marine Torpilleur - the old Sewills version made a good stab at Marine Chronometer with a super dial, but at 38mm (same size as UN's own iteration from the 90s, which I owned a long time ago), it was a bit of a tiddler. Today's UN version is a much more contemporary 42mm:
https://content.thewosgroup.com/prod...17720369_1.jpg
https://content.thewosgroup.com/prod...17720474_1.jpg
I have the 44mm Marine Torpilleur Military, a bit more presence/heft again at 44mm ... took me a long time to decide with/without power reserve as the dial is a lot more open/uncluttered without it and also without date, but more in UN tradition with I guess with both present. Ideally I'd own both watches. I love the huge subseconds on these designs.
https://i.imgur.com/Qm3ny8d.jpg
Would love to see a good homage to this :
https://i.ibb.co/hFfp1D8/DSC07235.jpg
Thinking more about this, while the Torpilleur is certainly a strong candidate, the watch I'd most like to see hommaged is this one - the Heuer Bundeswehr. No date and full 43mm size - it just wouldn't work smaller than that.
Sinn did their own issued version of the Bundeswehr spec back in the day, and have reissued versions of it 'right' a couple of times (as in the Dark Star special edition from a few years ago), though mostly they've got it wrong with too many subdials in the wrong orientation, or coloured hands, or a date that unbalances everything. The simplicity of the original design wins out.
A cheapo version was made using a Chinese handwound movement a few years ago (the watch looks the part but isn't terribly well made or reliable) but I'd love to see this properly done with the two subdial Sellita movement (auto by preference, for convenience, though handwound is of course more original).
https://i.imgur.com/zmeUIRX.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/1Epfh9f.jpeg
A close relative in design concept is the Zenith Chronometro Tipo CP2 (a generally faithful reissue of Zenith's Cairelli 1960s watch for the Italian airforce), which is more svelte and somehow smaller on the wrist than the Heuer/Sinn watches (despite its similar measured 43mm diameter) ... in may ways it's absolutely the perfect watch.
The smaller bezel gives a lovely sense of openness to the dial, and it's very slim thanks to the El Primero movement which adds to the sense of delicacy - Zenith's re-make is far less tool-watch than Heuer or Sinn's take, more dress-watch-with-toolwatch-design-cues, with its thin, polished case as opposed to brushed/blasted on the Heuer or Sinn. Wouldn't look right at all on a bund strap.
A quality homage based on either would work for me ...
https://i.imgur.com/24WUXev.jpeg
The good people at Sinn heard you, introducing the Sinn 155S Bright Star LE. From the looks of it, they have addressed all the issues you mentioned.
https://www.watchbuys.com/store/pc/c...ail/SI-530.jpg
I am looking forward to WWW, I would love to see a larger sub dial and slightly bigger numbers like the Grana Dirty D
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I would love it if it could be an auto and with wind down crown too for practicality reasons but understand that this is not true to the originals and I have I expect there are design and production constraints.
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Very good option I'd say, my first (for me) very expensive watch, Gerard from Horlogeplatform Nederland succeeded in becoming the first agent in the Netherlands for Ulysse Nardin and I just fell in love with the original 38mm Marine Chronometer with round date. Many watches (mostly from Gerard) followed, but I still regret selling the UN, it was a lovely piece.
So, Eddie has my blessing ;)