While the Mido Ocean Star, and its revolutionary AQUADURA sealing system that protected it, had the visual cues of a standard wristwatch, in 1961 Mido officially introduced their decompression diver with retrograde division bezels and black and white dials that framed a central rainbow decompression scale. Mido, however, understood that playful colour and functionality could go hand in hand. Aesthetically they were all very distinguishable in certain respects, such as the hands, fonts, and case shapes/diameters, but they all leveraged rather plain utility-driven designs that typically had black colour schemes. Brands such as Omega with their Seamaster watches, Panerai with the Radomir, and Mido with the Multifort (1935) and Ocean Star (1944), had created watches prior to the 50s that were described as “waterproof”, but their designs did not have the purpose-driven characteristics we have become familiar with today (i.e timing bezels).įollowing on from the Rolex/Tudor Submariner and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, which became a framework for many brands to re-interpet, came the Breitling Superocean ’57 (1957), LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm (1959), Longines Skin and Super Compressor Divers (1959), and Omega Seamaster 300 (1957). The brands who really birthed the category as we know it today are Rolex/Tudor and Blancpain – who each began production of their dive watches in 1953 (it should also be noted that Zodiac introduced their Sea Wolf diver in 1953 as well). Let’s take a quick dip into diving watch history. ![]() ![]() ![]() I/trending 5990 HANDS-ON: The return of the Rainbow Diver Limited Edition! The 2021 Mido Decompression Timer 1961 Zach Blass
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