![]() DOXA incorporated the US Navy’s no-decompression limit table – the reference for diver safety. Where other teams stopped at a unidirectional bezel, the DOXA team leapt further. It became a signature trait and the orange of a DOXA SUB is hard to miss, above and below the surface.Īn intelligent – and safer – bezel To dive safely, it is essential to know exactly how long you can stay underwater without a decompression stop when surfacing. After countless dives there was one clear winner for the range in which most sports divers operate: bright orange. Divers were sent down to various depths in Lake Neuchatel nearby and practically every color of the rainbow was tested. Orange is the new dial The team asked a simple question:“Does a black dial underwater make the most sense?” To answer this question the team’s engineers investigated the physics of light underwater. These features became the DOXA SUB 300 platform. The case is crafted from a single block of stainless steel guaranteeing absolute watertightness tested to a depth of 300 meters (1000 feet). The 45 mm diameter allowed for easier underwater handling and accommodated a larger dial for greater visibility. ![]() The first SUB iteration went beyond the typical size of other diving watch cases available at the time. ![]() Every aspect of what makes up a true diver’s watch was explored, examined and thought through until the optimum solution was found. Getting to the core of a true diver’s watch It would have been easy to simply tweak established diving watch characteristics – a black dial, hard to miss indices, fat luminescent hands, a rotating bezel and a heavy-duty strap. His research was helped by the fact one of the members, Claude Wesly, had been one of the first two “aquanauts” of the pioneering “Précontinent I, II, and III” dive missions that studied life in an underwater habitat. And so it was with a true sense of mission that Project SUB got underway in 1964. A team with a mission Divers depend on their watch for safety and so Urs wanted to design a watch that was more than just attractive, affordable and watertight.
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