Yeah, I’m late to the party…. Just picked up the “vintage black” 2020 and regardless of the photos or review, the piece is so much better in person. It’s absolutely lovely. If you have the opportunity, this is one not to be missed.
Vostok offer a blue strap very similar to the one shown in Armand's video. The watch itself is beautiful, a product with pedigree. Thank you Armand for bringing this to us.
This is a masterpiece in the diving chronograph world but yesterday I got a striking offer on a Longines Heritage Diver 1967,similar Heritage and movement at 1600 euro...I ordered it.
The blue variant is just gorgeous. I would, of course, like to own the watch but it's outside of my budget. By the way, I loved the choice of music. It was so apt and atmospheric.
Great review! is difficult to talk about pricing in this kind of pieces, because obviously they are no longer pro-diver options, so what are they? for collectors?, for people who like the design but never in life are going to use them to diving?... For people who knows the history behind the scuba-developing era, so they are willing to pay the cost? I don´t know... May be for all those people. The price is high if you don´t know the history behind, but for the "connoisseur" I think is worth. Cheers
the appeal to me of this watch is the unquie design of it - and its well executed too. Edit - The price to me, makes it comparable to some seiko ProSpexs - more specifically the Marine Master
From the photos, I was thinking that the blue version was the way to go, but now I’m wondering whether it does not look too “modern” for such a vintage-heavy piece 🤔
Let’s hope they keep the brand alive, as a owner of a Benthos, it has been impossible to service it over the last 10 years. So let’s see if they get the importance of retaining heritage pieces..
Great review !, And a great time-piece ! Just one detail to add: the unidirectional bezel was patented by Blancpain, for the 50-Fathoms (in the ´50s). So every dive watch of the era (including Submariners and Seamasters) were bidirectional, until 1980, when the patent rights expired. Thanks for share it. Cheers!
Would you buy it in a 39mm version [ mid size for 2022 ] for $2,790 special offer [ only 300 for the year ] and discounted BOR bracelet for $79 ...?-- I have , now sold out in grey. The MLJP column wheel movement cal 7773 wheel movement may be considered thick...but what would be considered a slimmer auto movement instead ? - without punching up costs. 55 Power reserve / 28 Jewels. The new Rolex sub movement Cal 3235 -/ 70 hr pr / 31J maybe thinner as an example ? -but not column wheel chronograph.
+ Elliott & Co Elliott: That's an interesting question. Given that I own the original limited run, I wouldn't replace it for the sake of exclusivity, the knowledge that I own the watch which relaunched Aquastar and because my wrist fits this version very well. However, I have no doubt that the 39mm will be better for most wearers even if it may be a bit top-heavy on account of the shorter lug-to-lug length combined with the same thickness.
@@ArmandTheWatchGuy Enjoyed your work on this video btw. Im looking forward to mine, no doubt there will be some reviews on the 2022 Deepstar in due course.Cheers
Beautiful watch for a collector and at a collector’s price. As a tool watch… and even as a diver’s status symbol, there are too many other options a professional diver might go for and at better value propositions.
I've been looking at this re-issue for over a year and am leaning towards pulling the trigger on it soon . Your video was most illuminating. There's another watch I'm very interested in but can't seem to find a video on , or a lot of independent info . Aletier Millesimme makes what would appear to be a very well made dive watch called the Monarque. I would love to see a video on this peice, as it appears to be a high horology class watch . Just a humble request. Thanx
@@davids.2317 Thanx for the heads up. I have looked to find all the information on this watch and company. Not a lot of in-deapth info that I could find . I'll look for this review. Again, thanx.
A really lovely and individual looking watch. Very desirable too I’d say, but that 52mm lug to lug would concern me. That’s if I could afford one of these, which I can’t.
Excellent review of this eccentric diver! I agree - the watch world needs more unconventional designs (though an original design would be nice - hurrah for Seiko). In it's oddball, unrefined way I rather like it. It's design is a product of passion and vision, not committee. A good thing. The finish looks very good (excellent macro, BTW!) and the movement is more than you'd expect of 'another' retro-inspired micro brand. But there's the problem - it's expensive. Not necessarily poor value, but a lot for an online punt, for a brand that has no continuous trading heritage, like eg Dodane. A lot more than the Ollech and Wajs C-1000, which looks as well finished, albeit with a lesser movement. Yes, Doxa is more, but that says more about Doxa pricing (extortionate now). But, that said, its a punt I might take, were it not for that lug dimension: 52mm. Ouch. I regularly wear big divers, even a 52mm Tuna, but 52 lug-to-lug? Unfortunately, a deal breaker for me.
I'm not sure is this watch a real Jacques Cousteau's style, yes, maybe for a pictures in a newspapers...but in reality for a real diving i'm really not so sure. That bezel is completely unusable at the depth of the sea, simply because there's no enough lumed markings....diver really don't have any need for a guessing what's happening and what's the time....maybe even a lume on a dial is not good enough but ok, there's no lume on the right side of a dial at all..... Anyway, a nice saloon diver, and off course, a nice video. A big like
Armond, I've been a subscriber for a good few years but your new background music is really annoying, that sonar beep every five seconds or so really grates. Any chance you could change it? Your last few videos I've stopped watching part way through because of the ringing beep in my ears. ☹
The whole thing about diving watches is so funny and dumb these days. Nobody literally nobody goes diving with them anymore - it is stupid, useless and in most cases plain dangerous. The fixation watch bloggers have on ‘diving’ watches is absolutely ridiculous - it is gimmick, the whole helium valve is an useless feature that leads to nothing as nobody will ever dive with watch to these depths as it is as useful there as a hole in the head. Jacque Cousteau would not dive with watch nowadays - back in the day it was necessity - now it is just a fashion piece.
@@junkyardparadise my real estate is super limited on my wrists - I have dive computer, backup dive computer, compass, wet notes and maybe bottom timer. Wearing watch that only can count time with manual intervention isnt something I want or need underwater. Additionally, I am willing to bet 100 euro ;) - 90% people wearing 'divers' have no idea how to use it.
