The Super Compressor was developed to increase water resistance. The design may have been superseded, but the look endures.

Everybody knows the typical dive watch look: a functional design, bold markers and, most of all, a prominent rotating bezel. Typified by watches like the Rolex Submariner, this formula comes in myriad variations and is so ubiquitous that you’d be forgiven for thinking that any other design wouldn’t even qualify as a dive watch. You’d be mistaken, though.
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