Deep Blue - DepthMaster
Off shore and into the deep, well beyond our coasts, lurk monsters. Beasts of enormous sizes and capabilites. They reign unchallenged in an underwater world.
A realm we must venture into when duty calls. You can only afford to trust the very best tools when Human lives are at stake.
Deep Blue, a very organized boutique label tasked with creating the standard in 'Precision Divers'. Panatime, a watch strap company with a huge online following, is Deep Blue's parent company. Pantime created this watch brand to match their standards in excellence, customer service and affordability.
The Depthmaster is Deep Blue's Halo watch. A timepiece rated to Three Thousand Meters of water resistance. Three hundred times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. This watch is a technical masterpiece for Deep Blue. Only a handful of Automatic ISO rated "Professional Diver's" watches on the market are rated for 3000m.
It's limits far exceed our own, that is the point.
Only the most elite dive watches are rated to 3,000m and up: Rolex Deep Sea Sea Dweller (3900m), Hublot Oceanographique (4000m), Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk Pro (3000m) and Breitling 's Avenger Sea Wolf (3000m). Three out of those four watches retail at a price above $10,000. The Breitling Avenger Sea Wolf retails for $4,000.
The Depthmaster's lumed sapphire bezel adds another dimension to this highly specialized and exotic dive watch.The Depthmaster is also the deepest watch in the world with a sapphire crystal bezel. Followed by the Omega PloProf 1200m and the Blancpain Five Hundred Fathoms (914m).
Officine Panerai was a pioneer in luminous watch materials. Deep Blue has shown they have perfected the art.
A Miyota Caliber 9015 powers the watch. LÃœM-TEC founder Ray Knight had this to say about the movement:
"The 9015 is nothing like any other Miyota auto movement ever made. It was specifically designed to kill the ETA 2892 and 2824 market. This movement was designed with all the latest available technology and precision that was not available way back when the ETA movements were designed. The machining is 100x better than any other Miyota auto movement. If you see it in person, it looks and runs more like something made by Rolex than Miyota. It could easily pass for a groundbreaking new high line in-house movement. The other Miyota movements are all good and reliable but in comparson to the basic ETA movements they are very basic and boring with average accuracy and basic metal finishing. Just nothing exciting. The 9015 on the other hand is incredibly good. Its done in all top level materials and finishing. The positional timing variances are super tight. The feel is very precise, seconds sweep is Rolex smooth, servicing and assembling is FAR easier than with the ETA movements. The 9015 could change the way you feel about Miyota auto movements forever."
A Strong Single Sided Anti Reflective coating that is truly colorless, to the point of nothing I have ever seen. Even Audemars Piguet with their Diver cannot claim to have a 100% optically clear coating.The coating does a disappering act on a 6.5mm thick one piece domed sapphire crystal.
PloProf style hands may lack originality, but they are a welcomed familiar touch for me on a watch that is already so unique. Light dances off the blue sunray dial at every opportunity.
Deep Blue was founded in mid 2009, yet they were technically capable enough of creating an ISO 6425 3000m watch in just two years time. It is safe to say the future is bright for them, but owners of the Mk.1 Depthmaster will always have the original version of Deep Blue's "Genesis".
The cold reality is that deep dive watches are not for the limp wristed. This watch can do many things but it cannot defy the laws of physics. It is 49mm by 19mm thick. The lugs are 26mm wide and on the bracelet it weighs nearly 3/4 of a pound. Yet the watch is very well balanced on the wrist and wears very flat.
There is no "top heaviness" to the head at all.
The 26mm wide bracelet is of excellent design. It takes styling cues from Omega's divers. It uses pins instead of screws which is almost surely a cost cutting measure. It makes no difference to me given the strength of the bracelet.The Clasp has a double locking mechanism with a diver's extension feature.
A manual helium escape valve at 10 o'clock.
The C3 Superluminova is fueled by the faintest of light sources.
Rounded "Bubble" Caseback. The Blue Depthmaster is limited to 2000 pieces.
Presence on the wrist is undeniable.
A tool watch that is not for tools
All in all a tremendous watch in every sense of the word. Size, value, exclusivity, design, and brand. The Depth Master 3000m is available for $660 from ShopNBC or direct from Deep Blue Watches.
Thanks for reading ...
Off shore and into the deep, well beyond our coasts, lurk monsters. Beasts of enormous sizes and capabilites. They reign unchallenged in an underwater world.
A realm we must venture into when duty calls. You can only afford to trust the very best tools when Human lives are at stake.
Deep Blue, a very organized boutique label tasked with creating the standard in 'Precision Divers'. Panatime, a watch strap company with a huge online following, is Deep Blue's parent company. Pantime created this watch brand to match their standards in excellence, customer service and affordability.
The Depthmaster is Deep Blue's Halo watch. A timepiece rated to Three Thousand Meters of water resistance. Three hundred times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. This watch is a technical masterpiece for Deep Blue. Only a handful of Automatic ISO rated "Professional Diver's" watches on the market are rated for 3000m.
It's limits far exceed our own, that is the point.
Only the most elite dive watches are rated to 3,000m and up: Rolex Deep Sea Sea Dweller (3900m), Hublot Oceanographique (4000m), Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk Pro (3000m) and Breitling 's Avenger Sea Wolf (3000m). Three out of those four watches retail at a price above $10,000. The Breitling Avenger Sea Wolf retails for $4,000.
The Depthmaster's lumed sapphire bezel adds another dimension to this highly specialized and exotic dive watch.The Depthmaster is also the deepest watch in the world with a sapphire crystal bezel. Followed by the Omega PloProf 1200m and the Blancpain Five Hundred Fathoms (914m).
Officine Panerai was a pioneer in luminous watch materials. Deep Blue has shown they have perfected the art.
A Miyota Caliber 9015 powers the watch. LÃœM-TEC founder Ray Knight had this to say about the movement:
"The 9015 is nothing like any other Miyota auto movement ever made. It was specifically designed to kill the ETA 2892 and 2824 market. This movement was designed with all the latest available technology and precision that was not available way back when the ETA movements were designed. The machining is 100x better than any other Miyota auto movement. If you see it in person, it looks and runs more like something made by Rolex than Miyota. It could easily pass for a groundbreaking new high line in-house movement. The other Miyota movements are all good and reliable but in comparson to the basic ETA movements they are very basic and boring with average accuracy and basic metal finishing. Just nothing exciting. The 9015 on the other hand is incredibly good. Its done in all top level materials and finishing. The positional timing variances are super tight. The feel is very precise, seconds sweep is Rolex smooth, servicing and assembling is FAR easier than with the ETA movements. The 9015 could change the way you feel about Miyota auto movements forever."
A Strong Single Sided Anti Reflective coating that is truly colorless, to the point of nothing I have ever seen. Even Audemars Piguet with their Diver cannot claim to have a 100% optically clear coating.The coating does a disappering act on a 6.5mm thick one piece domed sapphire crystal.
PloProf style hands may lack originality, but they are a welcomed familiar touch for me on a watch that is already so unique. Light dances off the blue sunray dial at every opportunity.
Deep Blue was founded in mid 2009, yet they were technically capable enough of creating an ISO 6425 3000m watch in just two years time. It is safe to say the future is bright for them, but owners of the Mk.1 Depthmaster will always have the original version of Deep Blue's "Genesis".
The cold reality is that deep dive watches are not for the limp wristed. This watch can do many things but it cannot defy the laws of physics. It is 49mm by 19mm thick. The lugs are 26mm wide and on the bracelet it weighs nearly 3/4 of a pound. Yet the watch is very well balanced on the wrist and wears very flat.
There is no "top heaviness" to the head at all.
The 26mm wide bracelet is of excellent design. It takes styling cues from Omega's divers. It uses pins instead of screws which is almost surely a cost cutting measure. It makes no difference to me given the strength of the bracelet.The Clasp has a double locking mechanism with a diver's extension feature.
A manual helium escape valve at 10 o'clock.
The C3 Superluminova is fueled by the faintest of light sources.
Rounded "Bubble" Caseback. The Blue Depthmaster is limited to 2000 pieces.
Presence on the wrist is undeniable.
A tool watch that is not for tools
All in all a tremendous watch in every sense of the word. Size, value, exclusivity, design, and brand. The Depth Master 3000m is available for $660 from ShopNBC or direct from Deep Blue Watches.
Thanks for reading ...
