Reviews
Honest, in-depth reviews of dive watches worn in real life — not just spec sheets. We test them at the desk, on the trail, and everywhere in between.
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Timex Expedition Pioneer Automatic 41: Initial 48-Hour Impressions
You ever buy something, get excited for it to arrive, open it up and immediately feel disappointed, only to spend some time with it and end up really enjoying it? If so, you have experienced what I have during my first 48 hours with the Timex Expedition Pioneer Automatic 41. Recently I have been on…
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10 Watch “Rules” I Don’t Follow
In this hobby there is no shortage of snobbery and bullshit. One of the biggest examples is the list of unwritten “rules” people have created about when, where, and how you are supposed to wear or collect watches. Some people take these rules way too far and treat them like laws everyone in the hobby…
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Timex Deepwater meridian gmt first impressions
First impressions of Timex’s upgraded automatic GMT in the Batman colorway There is a dirty little secret in the Land Diver Society. Dive watches are our favorite style of watch, but for our normal lives the GMT is a much more practical and useful complication to have. Tracking the different time zones of friends and…
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September Update
First off, I want to say that I hope everyone had a good month of August. Today we are going to do the monthly Land Diver Society update for September. September is the month I am supposed to be taking a break from posting as much across all platforms so I can spend more time…
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An Open Letter to the Community
I am writing this as an open letter to the community and, hopefully, to put this all to rest early so it does not become a forever thing. Over the last week or so, I have received a few DMs that I want to address publicly. This is not meant to start a fight or…
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Sketchy Boyz Watch Club x Brigade SC74 — Final Review
The Sketchy Boyz Watch Club x Brigade SC74 collaboration piece has been a pleasure to test and is a piece that will be sticking with me for a long time, if not forever, which is not something I can say about many watches or gear in general. Starting off, I want to give you a…
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Laco Palermo 39: Initial Impressions
First 24 Hours What if I told you that, for a period of a year, there was not a dive watch that ended up on my wrist? What watch or style of watch would you assume filled the everyday-watch role? If you guessed a pilot’s watch, you would be right. For around a year, when…
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Monterey Watch Co. Darkfathom Final Review
The Monterey Watch Co. Darkfathom is a watch that had been in the back of my mind for a while to try out. Why I kept pushing it off for so long is beyond me. I always found something else to spend my money on, and it just kept falling to the wayside. Finally, I…
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Land Diver Society Housekeeping Dispatch
A Quick Housekeeping Note This is something I feel like I should do occasionally: some housekeeping for the website and Instagram page. These will be kind of impromptu dispatches that update everyone on where we are at, what we are working on, and just general information we want to put out there. Community and Conversation…
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Brigade x Sketchy Boyz Watch Club SC74
Initial Impressions The Dream Watch Problem I consider myself a realist. I can be a dreamer, but at my core I am a realist. Those two worlds have collided when it comes to what I would call a true dream watch. My favorite watch design is the blue-on-blue Tudor Submariner Snowflake with square indices. Something…
