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Junghans Goes Monochrome with the Max Bill Chronoscope and Automatic Black and White
Sponsored post presented on best watches by advertiserOriginally established in 1861, Junghans has been quietly producing outstanding watches in Germany's Black Forest for over a century and a half, transforming the sleepy towns near Schramberg into a haven for watchmaking. At the turn of the 20th century, Junghans was the largest watch and clock factory in the world, exporting over three million timepieces each year. Over the following century, the brand would continue to expand and diversify, creating chronographs for the German military, introducing a host of new calibers, and producing the first German quartz watch in 1970. However, it was Junghans' collaboration with the famed Swiss architect and designer, Max Bill, in the late 1950s that would come to define the brand's signature line. Featured here, the Junghans Max Bill Chronoscope and Automatic Black and White are monochrome releases that showcase Max Bill’s timeless, minimalist style.Max Bill was a Swiss architect and d
Confessions Of A Commercial Diver: The Final Word On The Helium Release Valve?
While much real and virtual ink has been spent proclaiming the necessity of the helium release (i.e., "escape") valve for any professional diver's watch, this subtle and relatively simple case feature remains one of the most misunderstood complications in the undersea watch world. In order to bring light to the murky depths surrounding the real purpose behind this unassuming valve, I will call upon my training and experience as an inland commercial diver, along with a little help from a few salty saturation divers I happen to know, to finally and correctly describe the helium-rich environment for which the HRV was designed, how the concept works in practice, and why you don't need one (unless you do). So, do all deep-diving watches need HRVs? How does water not infiltrate the watch through the valve when it operates? Is an HRV required for all dive watches certified over a certain depth? Speaking as a watch-nerd-turned-commercial-diver, I can tell you from experience that the answers t