90'S

90'S

In the 1990’s, imposing watches intended for professional use came into fashion.

 

Not everyone, however, was able to produce such watches, so models like the Teknodiver were rather rare and extraordinarily innovative; a technically sumptuous watch that represents one of the highest levels achieved by Philip Watch. It is an automatic chronograph, with at its heart a “classic” ETA Valjoux 7750 movement. The case is remarkably thick, partly due to the layout of the hands: four levels of overlapping hands, very solidly mounted in parallel. The stopwatch buttons feature a screw-down device to prevent them from being activated underwater. The choice of the surface finishing is good: the finish that was chosen is known as “micro shot peening”, which yields uniform opacity and eliminates reflections. The genius of the designer of the Teknodiver shows through thanks to the unidirectional rotating bezel, useful for calculating the autonomy of scuba tanks and decompression times. Overall, the Teknodiver is a watch that fits well into one of the traditional specialties of Philip Watch: making waterproof watches (even extreme ones, as in this case) that are technically flawless.