I have booked both watches into a first class watchmaker for a thorough overhaul! I have been shamed into it lol.
Johnnie, am with you on the Assam, how did you source a decent watchmaker to service your watches, I am in London, and would be most grateful to find someone competent locally.
my first post on this forum i have the EU version , my brother have the US , watch are different both is the best
Can we trade brothers? I'll give you a good deal. Two for one? Three for one? I like my brothers just fine, but they have poor taste in watches.
Reviving this old thread for one correction: the original versions also did not have a rotating bezel. Note also that in any event the bezels show hour demarcations, not elapsed minutes; so even had the bezels turned they wouldn’t have been of much use to a diver. The bezel then shows the hour of the day, absent from the dial itself. The point of the Deep Sea alarm was to provide an underwater alarm for elapsed dive time, instead of an elapsed minute dive bezel. The Tributes are nearly 1-for-1 correct but for being 0.7mm larger, new innards, etc. Ironic, as with the historical US vs Euro versions there were far more of the former made than the latter, with vintage Euro versions being much harder to find. Finally, I thought I’d add for completeness to this thread that a third edition of this watch was made by JLC later in 2013, but only 3 examples were made for charity in connection with the Bono-led (RED) campaign. #1 of 3 was auctioned, the other two were kept by designers designers, Jonathan Iveand Marc Newson. It appears to have been a well received charity auction, with #1 of 3 going for a hair above estimate:
Love mine. Years ago I saw oem straps on eBay for $100. Didn’t buy them and now JLC doesn’t make them and can’t replace them. I still have the original but in rough shape. It’s currently on a similar strap but in goat leather. I have a feeling that JLC doesn’t have much if any spare parts so if the bezel breaks I think the owner is sol