Navy-Inspired Dive Watches
Cigar Aficionado|November - December 2023
While military personnel are no longer issued wristwatches as essential gear, a number of brands continue to celebrate their historic legacies in supplying armed forces with high-precision timekeepers.
Laurie Kahle
Navy-Inspired Dive Watches

Panerai’s esteemed military history includes the robust, luminous dive watches it supplied for the Italian Royal Navy in 1935 for a secret program of underwater assault vehicles. Last year, the brand partnered with the U.S. Navy SEALs in a set of five watches that bear the elite unit’s label. In military green, the Submersible Chrono Navy SEALs Experience Edition– PAM1402 ($61,700, limited to 50 pieces, center) is a 47-mm flyback chronograph in the brand’s brushed Brunito Steel with a ceramic anticlockwise rotating bezel and water resistance down to 30 bar (about 300 meters). The “Experience” in the name references a grueling Special Operations Experience that comes with purchase.

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