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Ocean Twelve

The International Watch Company has always done things a little differently. First of all, the firm wasn’t founded by a venerable Swiss family in the remote mountains of the Jura or in the Vallée de Joux. Rather, it was an American entrepreneur from Boston, F.A. Jones, who set up shop on the banks of the [...]

A Watch to Watch

There’s a new player joining the burgeoning dive watch market – RedSea Dive Watches, started by two moonlighting nine-to-five guys with big dreams (like so many of us). RedSea is taking pre-orders on two models, the Holystone and the Six Pounder. Bonus points if you know the origins of the model names. RedSea’s two owners [...]

Sexy Beast

First, a little history: in 1970 Omega released a watch whose intention was to be the most rugged, perfectly adapted watch for extreme diving situations. Input on the design came from none other than Captain Cousteau and it was tested by commercial divers working out of a diving bell hundreds of feet underwater. The crown [...]

A Watch That's Not All Business

The economy may be awful, but as my compadre Jason recently mentioned, if you’re a watch enthusiast, as most of us at GP are, we live in fortunate times. Small companies are coming out with well priced time pieces and though they may not be bred from pure bloodlines, they have the performance to match [...]