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The move of the PloProf information to its own dedicated site will leave room at DeskDivers to focus on what we originally set out to do, namely to give you the information you couldn’t find elsewhere about rare dive watches...

 

Now, of course to celebrate the new site and these changes, we’ve got a superb (if we say so ourselves) article just round the corner for you. Its probably the biggest and best work we’ve done to date and we think you will be impressed... It will be released shortly so please keep checking back on the site.

The article starts with a short story of mystery, intrigue and deception which leads directly to the birth of a technical marvel with Italian flair - No other watch can offer that kind of backstory! As some of you may know, this article took some time to come to fruition due to the volume of research that was needed to be completed to do justice to this special timepiece. The full story or the Anonimo Polluce is a great yarn and the information gathered about the Polluce wreck and the efforts to salvage her, the Anonimo company and also the Sellita SW200 movement is all revealed along the way. We just know you will like this one and its been suggested that it should come with a warning... Perhaps, ‘Surgeon General’s Warning: be aware it will take you around 2 hours to read this in one sitting’... but like all good warnings, we should ignore them and simply ‘Enjoy’!

The modern world just gets better and better for dive watch enthusiasts. In recent years not only have we had Omega releasing a new PloProf (and this year in a white dial version!) and Rolex upsizing its Submariner range, but now we have the best news of all… a new rubber dive strap! (no that’s not a typo!)

Yes, We’ve finally lost it… we’re getting excited about a rubber strap! Ok, agreed, on the face of it that does seem a bit strange, but this isn’t quite as simple as the words might suggest. This story is of an old brand that has been re-launched and over the next year will be bringing further sizes and colours of this strap to market. But why all the excitement from DeskDivers? Well we are talking about Isofrane, makers of the best rubber dive straps… ever!

 

Back in 1968 a small watch company filed a patent for cool idea to measure depth on the dial of a normal dive watch. They decided to back that watch with technology through and through using cutting edge ideas including hydraulics and an electronic movement.