Tool watch

Ollech & Wajs Zürich, is an independent watch brand, which was established in 1956. The OW Caribbean 1000 was the very first 1000M diving watch in 1964, its Astrochron was worn by three key figures of NASA, and its M65 was adopted by a great number of US troops during the Vietnam war. All are highly collectable today.

If John Keil was to recommend a brand-new functional diver’s watch to a friend who was looking to spend within a certain price range, these would be his suggestions. Or, more specifically, here is what he would purchase himself in a variety of price categories.

The Pelagos has always been a watch with no middle ground. It’s not for everyone, and it never really tried to be. It wore its identity on its sleeve and scoffed at the conventional wisdom of more demure tool watches built for easy everyday wear. That is, until now. The new Pelagos 39 is a […]

I know what you’re thinking. Not another boutique brand. But when the Vice President of the Christie’s New York Watch Department, aka our good friend Eric Wind, emailed saying he’d found a dive watch from the Netherlands worth checking out, we wondered what a newborn watch company had done to land on a vintage expert's radar. So we got in touch, had a few watches sent over to the office, and, surprise, what arrived was a very vintage-inspired watch built to modern standards.

The 10 best tool watches include dive watches, chronographs, field watches and even smart watches. And while we're at it, what is a tool watch, anyway?

The Trintec ZULU-07 PRO is the original aircraft instrument panel watch. Inspired by the gauges in aviation, but packed with enough features to be a dive watch.

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