The watch being reviewed is from my personal collection, so please excuse any scratches you may see in the photos.Īdvertisement 829 Squale 50 Atmos ref 1521 Review Case Stainless Steel Movement ETA 2824-2 Top Dial Black Lume Yes Lens Sapphire wAR Strap Rubber or Bracelet Water Resistance 500M Dimensions 41.5 x 48.5mm Thickness 13mm Lug Width 20mm Crown 5 Warranty 2 Years Price 829 Case The 50 Atmos case is a master class in proportion and design.Ĭoming in at approximately 41.5mm wide, with a lug-to-lug height of 48.5mm and a case thickness of 13mm, the 50 Atmos is certainly smaller than most contemporary dive watches. Todays review takes a look at the black dial variant of the 50 Atmos (Ref.Īt approximately 829, the 50 Atmos is an impressive Swiss-made watch that, in terms of both style and construction, outsmarts most of the competition. Squale also introduced the Blue Dial and the Super Matte, two attractive additions to their popular 50 Atmos line. They introduced the Master at Basel, and working with Jonathan Bordell of Page and Cooper, they created a limited edition Master line using a batch of recently discovered NOS bezels from the 1960s. It should be noted that some current models have even used NOS parts.) 2014 has been an especially exciting year for Squale. What they make are watches that very much look and feel as though they were designed (they were) and built in the 60s and 70s, albeit with modern manufacturing processes. The watches Squale makes today arent marketing ploys or upsized reinterpretations of a bygone era. They directed production back to automatic dive watches, tapping into Squales rich past and paying homage to some of their most important historical models (read our review of the Squale 101 Atmos Ref.Ī ). With that, the brand faded from memory, but never truly went away In 2010, Squale returned to the spotlight, this time under the Maggi family, Squales longtime Italian distributor. Though Squale persevered, efforts were refocused on producing affordable quartz models. The brand saw some serious growth under his tutelage, and throughout the 60s and 70s Squale was a respected leader in the dive watch world (in fact, a number of brands, from Doxa to Blancpain, subcontracted Squale to build cases for their watches). Despite the effort, it all feels a bit disingenuous, with marketing departments clearly playing up heritage to sell consumers stories that, more often than not, arent true.
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