The Luxury Watch Blog

But try to buy these ticking masterpieces of cool and you’ll feel backhanded by reality. ‘Cause in the real world, watches like Tom Cruise’s Bulgari multi-function super-computer from Minority Report or Roger Moore’s buzz-saw bezeled Rolex 5513 Submariner from Live and Let Die simply do not exist. That was, at least, up until 1999, when reality unleashed a horological counterpunch that all but knocked cinema out for the count. Because that year, the world bore witness to what was possibly the coolest wristwatch ever created: a diving super-computer forged from titanium and housing the first mechanical depth gauge ever found in a timepiece. Even the watch’s name - the Deep One - smacked of a John-Holmes-like hyper-endowment. The watch flung down the gauntlet, stating: “Take that, cinema! We defy you to create something cooler.” And the sad thing is, since then, cinema never has.

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