If you've got a history of tool watches, flaunt them. This certainly seems to be the mandate in the watchmaking arena for the past decade or so, and brands with legitimate tool watches from the past have found an avid crowd of watch buyers who want the appealing look of a vintage watch with contemporary mechanics. Although Alpina has been providing rugged tool watches for almost 140 years now, it was a late-1960s dive watch that was chosen as a candidate for a remake in 2016. The latest edition of the Seastrong Diver 300 Heritage is a historically faithful re-edition of the 1960s diver with its super compressor-style case and double crowns. Although the watch shares the same specs as the 2016 edition, and there has already been a Seastrong Heritage Diver with a black dial, the latest model livens things up with golden elements that underscore the vintage vibe even further. Another novelty that will make many of our readers happy is that the date window has been eliminated.


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