Jack Spade Dual Time
The Dual Time features a stainless-steel case and bracelet, sapphire crystal and a Swiss-made Ronda movement. The caseback is screwed in, helping ensure 10 ATM of water resistance. This is a dual time-zone watch, and has two crowns -- one for adjusting the watch and one for rotating the inner bezel -- which feature the second time zone in 24-hour format (the second time zone is indicated with a fourth hand). The Dual Time is a brightly colored watch with navy blue dial and a bi-color rotating inner bezel in orange and white. Yellow and blue inlay on the crowns complete the color palette.
Swatch SCUBA Libre
Nope, that price isn’t a misprint. This new collection from Swatch follows in its tradition of colorful, inexpensive watches executed in plastic. The SCUBA Libre features an updated classic dive watch style, and, yes, the bezels rotate. Swiss ETA movements all around, and the 44-millimeter cases are good to 20 bar (660 feet of depth). Plastic or textile straps, depending on the model you select, complete the look. There are two skeleton models, and while quartz movements aren’t as interesting to look at as their mechanical forefathers, you’ll still have some gears and such to peer at.
Gucci Sync
The Gucci Sync is a great-looking sport watch with a men’s model with a great sport-jogger-meets-Urban-Saturday-night look. The 46-millimeter stainless-steel case features a mineral glass crystal and integral rubber strap, and is water resistant to 50 meters. A Swiss quartz movement is tucked safe inside.
Vittorium Deep Diver REF DD360300
After a while, all dive watches begin to look the same. Here’s something a little different, and you still get a Swiss-made watch. This is a big boy with a 47-millimeter, 316L stainless steel case on a rubber strap. There’s the requisite rotating bezel, an ETA quartz movement and sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. A cool touch is the carbon-fiber dial. No word on screw-down crown or screw-in back, but the watch is rated to 200 meters depth water resistance.
$395 at Vittorium
Casio Edifice Twin Sensor ERA 200B
The Edifice Twin Sensor is an auto-racing-oriented version of the Edifice. This is another big watch, guys -- 46.5 millimeters. Who said big watches were dead? Stainless-steel case with a water resistance rating of 100 meters, mounted on your choice of stainless-steel bracelet or rubber strap. The movement is a Casio in-house caliber and features a 1/100th of a second stopwatch, thermometer, digital compass, world time in 29 time zones, a perpetual calendar (to 2099) and five -- count ‘em -- alarms.
ArmourLite AL-217 Men's Watch
The CGA Company has a history of carrying solid guy watches with a decidedly tactical look and function. The all-black ArmourLite AL-217 follows in that tradition. The case and bracelet are PVD (physical vapor deposition)-coated stainless steel. The crystal is hardened mineral glass, which CGA calls shatterproof. The ArmourLite features a Swiss-made Ronda quartz movement, held in a 45-millimeter case with a screw-in case back and double O-ring sealed screw-down crown. The hands feature small vials of Tritium, an extremely luminous compound. No worries about reading this guy in the dark.
Anstead Oceanis
Update on the Anstead Oceanis: After wearing the Oceanis off and on for the better part of a month, we can report that this watch has delivered. It’s comfortable despite its size (44 millimeters), with either leather or rubber strap, and it’s extremely readable (although if you’re on a mission where seconds count, we’re still concerned about the mostly black sweep second hand). We’ve been assured the issue with the very stiff uni-directional rotating bezel is being addressed in future production pieces. We have to say, all in all, this one’s recommended for an excellent everyday timepiece -- from missions to the home center to casual daytime and date-night wear.
$399 at Anstead
