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1665 Sea Dweller

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement 
  • Water-resistant 2,0000 ft./610m
  • Triplock screw-down crown with protective shoulders
  • Date – no cyclops lens due to stress caused by pressure at great depths
  • 60-minute, rotating time elapsed bezel
  • Dial – black with luminous markers
  • Bracelets – 9315 fliplock clasp
  • Available in steel only
  • Equipped with patented gas escape valve for saturation diving
  • The official timepiece of Comex, World’s largest professional diving and salvage company
  • Illustration not actual size

1675 GMT-MASTER

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 165ft./50m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown with protective shoulders
  • Cyclops lens magnifies date
  • Red triangle 24-hour hand reads bezel setting in second time zone
  • Models  Bezels  Dials
  • 1675s red/blue black
  • 1675sg gold/brown brown
  • 1675s brown brown
  • Bracelets
  • 1675s — 207, 218, 9315
  • 1675sg (14kt.) — 308, 313
  • 1675s (18kt.) — 6311, 8387, 9290
  • Official Timepiece of Pan American World Airways 

1680 Submariner

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 660 ft./200m
  • Triplock screw-down crown with protective shoulders
  • Cyclops lens magnifies date
  • 60-minute, rotating time elapsed bezel
  • Dials; Bezels 
  • 1680s — black with luminous markers; matching bezel 
  • 1680g — black, skyblue,: with matching bezel
  • Bracelets
  • 1680s — 207,218, 9315 (fliplock clasp)
  • 1680g (18kt.) — 6311, 8387, 9290
  • The official timepiece for Comex, world’s largest professional diving & salvage co.

1803 Day-Date

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 165 ft./50m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown 
  • Cyclops lens magnifies date
  • Day spelled out — available in 23 languages
  • Dials – silvers, champagne, burgundy, brown, skyblue, black
  • Bracelets — 109, 7286, 8385, 8386
  • Available in 18kt. Yellow or white gold; also in platinum , ref. 1804, with platinum bracelet, ref. 8385
  • Diamond dial and bezel available
  • Bark finish bezel ref.1807, with bark finish bracelets ref.8209 or 8723

6263/6265 COSMOGRAPH 

  1. Second Hand
  2. Sweep Second Hand
  3. Watertight screw down push button
  4. Triplock winding crown
  5. Watertight screw down push button
  6. Minute totalizator 
  7. Hour totalizator
  8. Calibrated bezel
  1. Read seconds continuously.
  2. Started and stopped by depressing push button
  3. Start and stop timing sequence.
  4. Ensures the watch is completely pressure proof and water resistant.
  5. Returns second hand and totalizators to zero.
  6. For timing a 30-minute operation. If it exceeds this time, the ½ hour is recorded by hour dial. Additional time is recorded by minute dial.
  7. For timing of an operation lasting several hours.
  8. For reading speed or rate of production per hour.
  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Manual wind movement
  • Oyster case — steel or 14kt.
  • Water-resistant when all crowns are screwed down — 165ft./50m

Bezel Face Dials Recorder

6263s black – black, silver – silver,black

6265s steel – black, silver – silver,black

6263g black – black, champagne – champagne,black

6265g gold – black, champagne – champagne,black

  • Bracelets 

6263s/6265s – 206, 219

6263g/6265g — 405, 406

  • Official Timepiece for Daytona Speedway

1016 Explorer 

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 330 ft./100m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown
  • Dials — black
  • Bracelets — 207, 218
  • Available in steel only
  • Accompanied Sir John Hunt in 1953 when he was first to conquer Mt. Everest

1019 Milgauss

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 165 ft./50m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown
  • Dials — silver
  • Bracelets — 207, 218, 9315
  • Available in steel only
  • Watch designed to withstand magnetic fields up to 1,000 gauss, oersted
  • Of special interest to professionals such as engineers and radiologists

1601 Datejust

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 165ft./50m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown
  • Cyclops lens magnifies date
  • Dials

1603s — silver, skyblue, black, gray

1601sg — silver, champagne, skyblue,black

1601g — silver, champagne

  • Bracelets 

1603s — 207, 218

1601sg — (14kt.) — 308. 313

1601g — (18kt.) — 109, 7286, 8385, 8386

  • Roman Numeral Dial available

1601 — silver, champagne

1063 — silver 

1655 Explorer II

  • Superlative Chronometer
  • Perpetual rotor self-winding movement
  • Water-resistant 330 ft./100m
  • Twinlock screw-down crown with protective shoulders
  • Cyclops lens magnifies date
  • Red triangle hand denotes 24-hour time on fixed bezel 
  • Black luminous dial
  • Bracelets — 207, 218, 9315
  • Available in steel only
  • Designed for those professionals such as speleologist, amateur cave explorers (spelunkers) and residents of the artic regions 
  • Accompanied Julian Nott and Felix Pole in 1974 when they set a new world’s altitude record for hot air balloons (45,670 ft.)
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