Als onderdeel van de Australian Watch Week vragen we microfoonspecialisten Worn & Wound voor hun uit de manchet om elk horloge te bekijken die we beoordelen:
"Een functie over vormgereedschap duiker die bedoeld is om in het water te worden gebruikt. Niet één voor bureauduikers. "- Zach Weiss, Worn & Wound
The story behind how Aegir Instruments came to be is one of the most compelling and authentic I’ve heard for a long time – certainly one of the best I’ve heard from a brand without a marketing department. Todd Caldwell, the man behind the brand, is a commercial diver – and the inspiration for Caldwell to go out on a limb and make his own dive watch was hours of decompressing in a diving bell, with little to do but stare at his watch (I asked – it was a Panerai, and yes – he’s still got it).
Caldwell wasn’t happy with what he saw, or with any of the watches on the market for that matter. He wanted something he could wear at depth that wouldn’t look like a tuna can on the wrist, jutting out from a suit cuff. So decided to design his own, initially just for himself and a few diving buddies. Out of this process came two designs: The CD-1, forms the core of the Aegir Instruments collection, and the CD-2 – a limited edition of 100 pieces that has spared no expense in the quest for quality.
The CD-2 emerged because it turns out that people expect certain things of a dive watch. Water resistance is one, and a turning bezel is another. Somewhat ironically the classic dive watch bezel was superfluous to Caldwell’s needs as a diver. His dives, taken in diving bells, were measured in hours, not minutes. He’s only ever used a bezel to time how long it takes to boil an egg. But, people wanted a divers’ bezel – so Aegir delivered.
The CD-2 is quite a chunk of steel, with brushed 42mm case (with a helium escape valve) that wears a lot larger than you might expect thanks to that super wide bezel. This bezel is great, with simple numerals and hash marks that don’t try and fancy things up too much, and a luminova filled triangle at 12. It has a little bit of play in it, compared to the Rolex and Omega watches we happened to have lying around, but other than that it held up pretty well against the big boys.
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