According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the deepest dive with scuba gear is 437 feet off the coast of the Bahamas. In light of this, perhaps the best way to illustrate such a depth is by offering a record-breaking feat. To say that 1650 feet is deep is to state the blatantly obvious. No matter what kind of water sporting events you enjoy-snorkeling, deep-sea diving, scuba diving, sailing or ocean dwelling-your best swimming companion could very well be the Croton 1650 Feet Dive Watch, primarily due to its amazing water resistance capacity. But its not just swimming I enjoy, its anything having to do with the water, whether it’s on the hot sands off the Atlantic coast, skiing on the ocean’s surface or feverishly pounding Olympic-sized pools with breast stroke after breast stroke. There is a tachymeter around the circumference of the dial and a minute and seconds track around the circumference of the dial.One of my very favorite things to do is swim. The subdials are painted white with running seconds at 9 o’clock, chronograph minutes at 3 and chronograph hours at 6 o’clock. The sub dial hands are all painted black. The Hour, Minute and Chronograph Seconds hands are all silver in color and have luminous compound. The dial is matte black in color with silver hour marker inserts. This is a very cool, large piece which comes with an interesting story, making it perfect for many collectors.

The watch has been fitted with a brand new heavy stitch Hirsch strap. The watch is in fair condition with its original screw down crown and rotating bezel. Of course we can come up with any story to suit our own narrative but we have since found multiple models with the same ghosted Croton front behind the Rotary logo making this certainly not a one off. We think that Rotary had a few pieces, removed just the Croton logo and applied theirs making the watch quite unique.

When we looked closer at the rotary logo we noticed some ghost font that starts with a “C” and ends with a “N”, Croton? we think so. What makes this watch so interesting, and somewhat mysterious, is that this watch model is from Croton (Nivada Grenchen) and we have not seen a partnership from them before. The watch is housing a manual wind Valjoux Cal 7736 Chronograph movement. This is an interesting, large Rotary Croton Diver-Chronograph that back in the day was water resistant to 200m.

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