Obscure and Vintage Dive Watches

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Here’s a couple of mine. Monvis is a keeper. Great size at 38mm and wonderful dial and patina. The Cronel is a catch and release; modern feeling at 40mm with tropical dial.
 
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Super funky Belforte divers. The Electronic version has the Lip R148 movement inside.



Wittnauer Electronic diver but with an ESA 9154 inside:



Titoni Seascopers. Only have the middle and the left one anymore, but still have to show off the whole set.



Certina isn't obscure, but still fits in this thread I think.

 
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Ok I’ll play, a helbros nothing special but is pretty clean.
 
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Titoni Seascopers.

Those vintage Titoni divers were a very popular brand of skin divers and are still found all over the tropics. 👍
 
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Anthony diver- don’t know much about it, but it’s based on a Squale medium case with Bakelite bezel and ETA movement- small for a pro-diver but wears about the size of a 386 Snorkel or 60’s Seawolf.
 
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Anthony diver- don’t know much about it, but it’s based on a Squale medium case with Bakelite bezel and ETA movement- small for a pro-diver but wears about the size of a 386 Snorkel or 60’s Seawolf.
Gorgeous🥰
Bakelite, ETA, day only and Tritium... It checks all of my boxes
 
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Gorgeous🥰
Bakelite, ETA, day only and Tritium... It checks all of my boxes
It’s a cool one- hence I had to give it a try. These medium sized divers are still a “deal” compared to their larger siblings, but they vary in size so you need to watch out. I like small watches (wear comfortably and discretely), but depending on bezel/dial ratio, the case size specs can be deceiving.
I got this one recently which is 34.5mm-


only .5mm smaller than a Seawolf, but the dial size is much smaller,


hence makes the watch wear a touch too small for me.


Forcing myself to get used to it, but it may end up on my lady’s wrist.
 
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Those vintage Titoni divers were a very popular brand of skin divers and are still found all over the tropics. 👍

Yep, almost every single one I have seen for sale has come from an Asia/Pacific country. And nearly all their ads and accessories are in an Asian language. Definitely not a brand that ever made it too far out of that region.
 
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And a Camy. This is actually lovely with super details. Trapezoid date and cyclops. Wonderful lume. Super smooth winding.
 
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Luxor Subaqua Dive-O-Matic Diver with an interesting second ring, like you normally see on Enicars.

 
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Added a few more Seawolf’s to the stable recently- but this one is an oddity.


MKII dial and hands with MKIII bezel isn’t that unusual, it was a normal transitional assembly with the grey/blue Bakelite and black hash marks. But this has a red hash marked bezel- not orange, RED! I have never seen a red bezel on these. The orange bezel was always paired with the orange dial- but has anyone else seen a red bezel?