Doxa Dive Watches

Georges Ducommun was only twelve years old when he began his apprenticeship with an established watchmaker in 1880. Over several years Georges imagined ways that he could improve the components to make an even better watch. He soon realized it was time to move on and open his own business. And that’s what he did in 1889 aged just 21 “Georges Ducommun, Fabriques Doxa” started manufacturing his own watches.

A divers watch for the growing community of underwater explorers

It was the head of product development, Urs Eschle,  who had a vision to create a precision timepiece for the growing number of professional and recreational divers. This was in the early 1950’s when people had just been given the invention of the Aqua-Lung. What Urs wanted was a reliable and robust watch that moved away from the military look and feel of the dive watches from the last decade.

Enter Aqua-Lung co-inventor Jacques Cousteau

He also wanted to produce an affordable watch purpose-designed for the expanding community of underwater explorers. He set up a team that included professional divers such as Claude Wesly and none other than Monsieur Jacques-Yves Cousteau – co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung

Welcome to the Doxa Sub 300T

The DOXA SUB 300T was introduced to the world at the huge Baselworld watch expo in 1967. It was the first 100% purpose-designed, professional-grade sports diving watch. Many of the design features we see in other popular dive watches have taken their DNA from the radical innovations of the DOXA SUB 300T. It really did establish itself as the benchmark of the professional diver’s watch. For the record, the Doxa SUB 300T gets the name from it’s water resistancy – 300 meters and the, now banned, luminous material on the hands and dial- Tritium.

Current Models in the Doxa Collection

Doxa Sub 200 (including C Graph and T Graph)

Doxa have dozens of dive watches starting with the ever popular Doxa Sub 200. A stunningly simple three handed timepiece with date and unidirectional dive time bezel. Most popular in this range, as with a majority of the others, are thos watches with the Orange dial (Professional). The Sub 200 also comes with Black dial (Shark Hunter), Silver Dial (Searambler), Blue dial (Caribbean) , Yellow dial (Diving Star), Aquamarine and White Pearl.  The Sub 200 C-Graph version features a Chrongraph and the T-Graph with 2 sub-dials, a 30 minute chronograph and a small seconds dial.

Doxa Sub 300 and Sub 300T

This is my personal favourite. I love the innovative, patented dual function dive time bezel. On the outside of the ring is the depth in metres (300 version) or feet (300T model). On the inside of the ring are time markers in minutes. This clever calculator can be used as a quick reference depth and the related “no decompression” time – eg at 20m diver can spend up to 50 minutes with the need for decompression stops. For more details on the other Doxa Diver’s watches please pop over to their website, link below.

Official Website (external link) – Doxa Watches