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:showFullImage('/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=%2Fstorage%2F36345profile.jpg%3F__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION%3D1294974317474',800,600);” target=”_blank”>In the popular (read: crowded and too often boring) dive watch market it seems that some of the most popular recent (and upcoming) releases have been trips down horological memory lane. One such stand out of 2010 was the reissue of the 1973 Kon Tiki Super,IWC Watches Replica, from Eterna,Datejust Men Replica, a great brand with a long history (they founded ETA before selling it to the Swatch Group). The Eterna we’ve found for you today was first seen in 2005 and is also called a Kon Tiki.
Say hello to the radically styled and technically impressive Kon Tiki Concept diver. Its most notable feature is it’s ‘flip out’ case; the PVD titanium ‘container’ pivots out from the skeletonized steel ‘bridge.’ Why go to all this fuss? Well,Zenith Watches Replica, aside from being pretty nifty in it’s own rights, it’s all about the bezel. You can only move the bidirectional internal bezel when the watch is flipped open, when in the bridge it’s solid as a rock. The crown for this watch is also impressive; it doesn’t screw down, which is unusual for a watch rated to 1000 meters. Again the non screw down crown is all in the name of deep sea functionality (should you wish to adjust your bezel at depth). The method of achieving this remarkable degree of water resistance was actually pinched from technology developed for the automobile industry (More on that later).
This iteration of the Kon Tiki certainly does not fall into the trap so common with many dive watches; that of bearing a more than passing resemblance to other dive watches. In part this is understandable given that they are Continue reading »