Came across this on line, thought it looked like a good beater, manufactured by James Fisher Defnse for commercial diving.
https://www.jfdglobal.com/products/c...ivers-watches/
That looks very familiar - is it not just a generic watch with their branding on it, rather than made by them?
Out of interest is there anything in particular about James Fisher Defence that makes them notable, as I've not heard of them before.
https://www.jfdecommerce.com/divex-p...ional-200.html
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This is mine. Had it a couple of years. Seiko movement and a bit of an industry workhorse. Good value for the money.
I'm liking the look of their 500m version:
https://www.jfdecommerce.com/divex-offshore-500.html
Great watches with Seiko movement.
There’s an interesting story here:
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/di...cean-shipwreck
I bought mine off the back of that article. Cost £75 back then and worth every penny. It's a "must have" watch for me. Strap is extra long so needs cutting down or just swapping out as I did.Originally Posted by Onelasttime
Apeks, Astina, Cressi, Aqualung, Tauchmeister & others: the same watch, different branding.
They've been the subject of posts on here for at least ten years, so nothing new...
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Jim.
Out of curiosity what's the lume like on these compared to a Seiko diver?.
Very good actually. Comparable to the SKX007 and SPB077.
Nothing special about them other than the have a manufacturing site near me in Glasgow, they manufacture a lot of equipment for the offshore industry.That looks very familiar - is it not just a generic watch with their branding on it, rather than made by them?
Out of interest is there anything in particular about James Fisher Defence that makes them notable, as I've not heard of them before.
https://www.jfdecommerce.com/divex-p...ional-200.html
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I’m sold.... will order one.
Out of interest what did you replace the strap with?
As has been said, these have been discussed multiple times in the past - most notably a thread started by TakeTheCannoli entitled something like ... Is this the best value diver ever?”
On the strength of that thread I bought one and think it’s a great dive watch for the money.
Like Dunce, I replaced the strap - in my case with a Borealis ‘ISOfrane’ lookalike... the whole rig cost me just under £100 which imo is excellent vfm.
Here it is...
Simon
Ditto the Borealis Isofrane-style for about £20 (I think). It's been on the watch ever since.
James Fisher is a big group. A few years ago they bought up Divex to give more access to the commercial and military diving supply industry.
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I'm thinking of picking one of these up after all this has hopefully passed
Cheers.
My Divex watch has a Seiko quartz movement btw. Great value watches imo
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Could it be that since they seem to have Seiko movements and similar lume, that they are in fact made by Seiko for the above brands? Does anyone know who makes them?
There are case makers in China who will put together a watch such as that using any movement of choice, the most expensive part being the movement, in the case of that watch probably between £10-15 depending on quantity.
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Great point, if you can find a supplier that can put something like this together (with the Seiko movement) for £15 let’s get a Forum watch made, withTZUK printed on the dial I’m sure we could fill an order of at least 500 units, I’m sure there would be a clever graphic designer on here who would make a graphic for the watch as well??
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Great point, if you can find a supplier that can put something like this together (with the Seiko movement) for £15 let’s get a Forum watch made, withTZUK printed on the dial I’m sure we could fill an order of at least 500 units, I’m sure there would be a clever graphic designer on here who would make a graphic for the watch as well??
The ideal person for this would be our forum owner, Eddie, who already has a watch manufacturing business. Would this be viable for him? If he could get 500 at £15 each = £7500. He could then sell them, for say, £50 to forum members. That would represent a profit of £17500, minus vat and shipping. Maybe it would have to be £70 each. That would be £27500 minus out goings. I definitely think 500 would sell. It could be the start of a number of forum special editions.
He could keep the Timefactors brands for the high end models and start another brand for something like this. Could be just "TZUK" or something.
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Thank you all for the info on these and Divex. My current favourite is the 500m version, but I imagine it's pretty chunky (can't see the specs on their site).
I was watching 'Last Breath' last night, which wasn't only a really enthralling film, but also had quite a bit of Divex equipment in it.
As already stated above... Apeks is just one of many variants sharing the same case and movement.
This is mine...lume is amazing
Mike
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