Watch Dandy

As of 6pm today, the Time+Tide shop is the only place in Australia and New Zealand that you can buy DOXA watches. Browse our range, and buy several models, including a Limited Edition for under $2K right now. It will come as news to very few of you that this is one heck of a legendary brand. First helium valve on a general public diver’s watch, legendary. Jacques Cousteau, legendary. Owning orange, legendary. We are mildly freaking – and geeking – out to introduce so much more of DOXA to you, in all of its historical, colourful and, yes, orange-dial-drenched glory.   We are offering a full range of DOXA watches, including the just-released, and GPHG-nominated SUB 200 range — which starts at $1550 on rubber. And before you ask, yes, indeed, we have secured a generous allocation of 30 pieces of the 130th Anniversary SUB 200 Limited Edition (of 130 pieces), which sells for $1890. You wanted it. You got it. Other classic models in the line-up include the SUB 300T, a reinterpretation of the SUB 300T Conquistador released in 1969, which was the first general public diver’s watch equipped with a helium release valve. Several of the collections are available for…

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As of 6pm today, the Time+Tide shop is the only place in Australia and New Zealand that you can buy DOXA watches. Browse our range, and buy several models, including a Limited Edition for under $2K right now. It will come as news to very few of you that this is one heck of a legendary brand. First helium valve on a general public diver’s watch, legendary. Jacques Cousteau, legendary. Owning orange, legendary. We are mildly freaking – and geeking – out to introduce so much more of DOXA to you, in all of its historical, colourful and, yes, orange-dial-drenched glory.   We are offering a full range of DOXA watches, including the just-released, and GPHG-nominated SUB 200 range — which starts at $1550 on rubber. And before you ask, yes, indeed, we have secured a generous allocation of 30 pieces of the 130th Anniversary SUB 200 Limited Edition (of 130 pieces), which sells for $1890. You wanted it. You got it. Other classic models in the line-up include the SUB 300T, a reinterpretation of the SUB 300T Conquistador released in 1969, which was the first general public diver’s watch equipped with a helium release valve. Several of the collections are available for…

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Tudor has decided to honour its partnership with New Zealand’s All Blacks the only way it knows how … with a limited edition watch, the Tudor Black Bay Chrono Dark. Made to not only pay tribute to the All Blacks’ illustrious history, which dates back to 1884, the Chrono Dark also celebrates the rugby team’s 2019 title defence of the Rugby World Cup. Just 1181 watches will be created initially, and we know what you’re thinking: what’s the significance of 1181? Well, that’s how many Kiwi rugby players have been selected for the country’s national squad since its inception. What’s even more unique is that for every new player added to the All Blacks roster, Tudor will create an additional example of the Chrono Dark. Based on the standard 41mm Black Bay Chrono, the limited edition timepiece has been styled to mimic the All Blacks’ famous playing jersey, a feat that Tudor has accomplished by applying a matt black PVD-treated coating (as seen on the Tudor Heritage Black Bay Dark). Originally developed by NASA and employed in several of their space programs, PVD, or Physical Vapor Deposition, is a thin-film technology that can be applied to almost any inorganic material.…

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Russian watchmaker Raketa has just released a modern interpretation of its classic Raketa Copernic wristwatch, and it is a uniquely compelling timepiece. First created in the 1980s in the twilight of the Soviet Union, the original Copernic was made to honour the renaissance-era Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus. Like the original, the new homage piece has a fascinating and novel dial that portrays the earth and moon’s rotation around the sun in space. As a result, the hour hand is styled as a golden orb that represents the sun, while the minute hand is a large, hollow silver ring that depicts the moon. The gorgeous gradient dial blends blue and black together in a mesmerising illustration of outer space, and while it may seem overtly unusual to some, we reckon it’s downright charming. In addition, Raketa actually went to some lengths to ensure that the new Copernic really did justice to the infinite expanse of space. The Russian watchmaker even consulted the celebrated Russian cosmonaut Alexander Ivanchenko, who helped design the dial. Available in either steel or blackened steel, the Copernic’s 40.5mm case houses Raketa’s calibre 2615 movement, which returns a fairly impressive accuracy rating of -10/+20 seconds a…

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The horological mavericks at Urwerk have just dropped their latest wristwatch and it is, pardon the pun, out of this world! The Urwerk UR-100 SpaceTime is a stratospherically cool and novel concept for a timepiece, and one that seems very, very complicated indeed. Essentially, the SpaceTime will not only tell its lucky owners the time, but the distance travelled on Earth and the distance travelled by Earth. Much like other watches in Urwerk’s back catalogue, their latest timepiece employs the use of the watchmaker’s famed orbital hour satellites and striking red-tipped arrow minute pointer, which makes its way across the bottom of the svelte case. However, once the minute pointer has travelled past the 60-minute marker, it then makes its way underneath the first sub-dial and then resurfaces at the 10 o’clock position to display the distance that us humanoids have statically travelled on Earth. The SpaceTime can calculate this by portraying the Earth’s average speed of rotation around the equator in 20-minute intervals, in which time it will shift approximately 555 km. Once it reaches the end of this sub-dial, the red-tipped arrow makes its way underneath another sub-dial and then reappears at the two o’clock position on the dial to exhibit the Earth’s…

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