With regards to a watch, typically, you simply need one thing that covers the fundamentals, and also you don’t need a whole lot of further bells and whistles. On the similar time, you most likely don’t need that watch to appear like it fell out of a white label elements catalog. There are lots of choices for that, however one with it’s personal attention-grabbing aesthetic has been Paulin Watches. They’ve iterated and riffed on their base designs, and now they’re launching one thing utterly new: a dive watch, hereby generally known as the Paulin Mara.
Properly, it’s a dive watch, in fact. Anytime a model launches a brand new instrument watch, although, we have to ask: is that this simply the look, or can this factor perform because the instrument it’s purporting to be? Curiously sufficient, this design took place after a dialogue in 2023 with Jason Heaton (pictured above within the higher left) in regards to the fundamentals of what makes for dive watch. Now, I could discuss dive watches and evaluate them, however Jason truly takes this stuff for his or her supposed goal, and goes diving with them. So, he know what works and what doesn’t while you’re truly down underneath the waves. Professional steerage, certainly.
For the watch itself, you’ve bought a 40mm stainless-steel case that – with the crown screwed down – carries a 300m WR ranking. The dial itself is crisp and legible (white on both black or blue) with clearly differentiated hour and minute fingers. Whereas they don’t name it out within the specs, we’re presuming that the domed diving bezel (which itself surrounds a double-domed sapphire crystal) is uni-directional, which is how a diving-specific watch ought to be.
For a brand new design, you would be tempted to assume a youthful model would go for, say, a extra pedestrian motion, see how gross sales go. Not so, right here. To actually give this watch a pan-European really feel (watch designed in Glasgow, a dial made in Germany), they’ve gone for a Swiss motion. On this case, it’s the La Joux Perret G101, which is designed from the beginning as a three-hander, no-date motion, so there’s no extraneous bits. It additionally has a tungsten rotor on it (a heavier metallic), which means it ought to get itself wound up fairly properly out of your shifting about.
That’s bought to be key as properly, proper? It’s one factor for a model to introduce a brand new design, but when it’s not someway identifiable as coming from that crew, properly, it might be nearly any manufacturers’ watch, proper? No worries right here. They took their customized ‘Wim’ typeface (commonly used on the Neo and Modul fashions) and introduced it right here, on the dial and the bezel. Secondarily, they’ve bought a number of colours on their handset, after which they’ve gone and combined up our expectations of what indice shapes go the place on a dial. It’s all legible and helpful, however nonetheless whimsically them.
We’ve been followers of how Paulin (and anOrdain) have gone about placing their aesthetic on watch design, and the brand new Paulin Mara looks as if a wonderful broadening of their horizons. Whereas it was simply introduced as we speak, it is going to be accessible for buy beginning tomorrow (2025 August 22) at 4pm BST (GMT +1), so mark your calendars on your explicit timezone. It is going to be accessible in one in all two colours – blue or black – and command a worth of $1,650. paulinwatches.com
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PRICE: $1650 / £1200* +VAT (*Reside conversion charge at checkout for worldwide prospects)
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MOVEMENT:
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CRYSTAL: Double domed sapphire with 3 layers of anti-reflective coating
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WATER RESISTANCE: 30ATM / Waterproof to 300m (990 ft)
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CASE: 316L Chrome steel
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DIAL: Lacquer and Tremendous-LumiNova on brass
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CASE DIAMETER: 39.7mm
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CASE THICKNESS: 13.5mm
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WITHOUT CRYSTAL: 10.8mm
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CASE LUG-TO-LUG: 48mm
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STRAP WIDTH: 20mm
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WEIGHT (CASE ONLY): 74 grams
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WARRANTY: 24 months
Accessible to buy from 4PM BST 22
