![]() Five modern Chronomasters are now available in the Shop. That's where the "Aviator Sea Diver" comes into play on the dial and can come to play on your wrist if you head over to the Shop. Guillaume Laidet, a watch industry veteran, announced plans to revive the Nivada Grenchen brand last summer. So, it would be normal to feel that this is essentially the same watch or should belong to the same group in the same way that CASD watches that are not branded Nivada or Croton is allowed. Altogether, I'm a big fan of these Chronomasters I like how they were marketed as basically a do-it-all watch, perfect for diving, flying, racing, etc. Point taken, but I do remember seeing a strikingly similar watch as mine with CASD on the dial. Crystal: Hesalite crystal with tension ring. Signed screw back - Bi-directional rotating bezel with Tritium round serve. small subdials (why 5-4-3-2-1 on that minutes dial it only makes it worse). SOLD JUMBO vtg 1960s CROTON Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver - RARE maroon dial - Landeron 248 - SERVICED No Mercy Oct 9, 2017. ![]() ![]() cheap, fussy bezel coming from that same skin diver. And the: - cheap looking, oddly sized hands that seem to have been taken from a second-rate skin diver. It really looks like it lived a life – the once black bezel has gained to a greenish hue, depending on the light. 142 subscribers Subscribe 1. The 29 mm dial surrounded by a large bezel may give that unbalanced look. However, the feature that sticks out to me the most is the bezel. I really love how the lume has aged on the dial and on the broad-arrow-style hands. The watch we have today is in overall beautiful, honest condition and has developed a great patina on the dial and bezel. These early ones say "Chronograph Aviator Sea Diver'' on the dial, yet the same model would later read "Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver," so it's pretty cool to play with the OG. I'm particularly excited about the example we are offering today, because it's from the first run of the Chronomaster that came out in the early 1960s, which featured the Venus 210 movement.
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