Though the pursuit of creating water-proof watches started decades before, true divers didn’t show up until 1953. The Blancpain Fifty-Fathoms, Rolex Submariner and Zodiac Sea Wolf were all precursors ...
From the ’50s through the ’70s, dive watches became extremely prevalent on the consumer market, and with that onslaught of watches came a variety of different designs meant to make a more efficient, ...