Rolex Explorer & Glashutte Original SeaQ Dive Watch: Chronographs, Luxury Watches

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Oct 13, 2019

WatchBox Reviews

Weekend Watches returns with a showdown between the Rolex Submariner and the 2019 Glashutte Original SeaQ! Dive watches, chronographs, tourbillon watches, and even a minute repeater feature this morning on YouTube’s most popular live tour of leading luxury watch brands.

• Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 5015-1130-71 $10,450
• Cartier Roadster XL W6206012 $5,450
• De Bethune DB15 Perpetual Calendar DB15WT $54,950
• F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain $139,500
• F.P. Journe Linesport Octa Sport Automatique Reserve 44mm platinum $67,950
• 2019 Glashutte Original Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date $12,400 (Through Govberg)
• 2019 Glashutte Original Spezialist SeaQ (Through Govberg)
• Jaeger LeCoultre Duometre UTT Chiseled Dial / Metiers Rares Q606344U $29,500
• Jaeger LeCoultre Duometre a Chronographe Q6011420 $25,950
• Jaeger LeCoultre Master Minute Repeater Antoine LeCoultre Q1646420 $79,500
• Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro Rotor piece unique LCF004.G1 $37,950
• Panerai Luminor Marina PAM 140 PAM00140 $15,995
• Panerai Luminor 1950 Marina PAM 422 PAM00422 $6,950
• Patek Philippe 5170R-001 Chronograph $49,950
• Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer 214270 $6,050
• Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona 116523 $16,950
• Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner 116610LV $14,650
• Sinn 140 ST Space Chronograph 140,020 $3,950
• Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Contemporaine Exellence Platine 43150/000P-9684 $37,950
• Vacheron Constantin Malte Perpetual Calendar Chronograph 47112/000J-8913 $44,950
• Zenith El Primero Chronomaster 38mm 03.2150.400/21.M2150 $5,450


Rolex watches always are a staple of the show, and we have a mix of mainstream and offbeat Rolex models for today. The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona in two-tone steel gold hardly qualifies as an exotic, but a black Tahitian mother of pearl dial sets this example apart from the crowd. The Rolex Explorer appears as the transitional 2010-2015 39mm model with the larger case but the solid white gold tri-Arabic numeral dial before full luminescence arrived in 2016. A Rolex Submariner “Hulk” in green trades blows with a muscular challenger from Saxony.

Speaking of Rolex rivals from Glashutte, the 2019 Glashutte Original Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date and SeaQ make an extraordinary appearance in prototype form.

The 43.2mm SeaQ Panorama Date boasts an impressive manufacture automatic caliber GUB 36-13 with a silicon hairpsing, six-position adjustment, and a 100-hour power reserve. With a ceramic bezel, handsome sunburst blue dial (made by Glashutte Original in Pforzheim), and 300-meter water resistance rating, the stainless SeaQ Panorama Date is ready to rock against Rolex.

Fans of traditional sizes and vintage dive watches will prefer the 39.5mm SeaQ, a model based on Glashutte Original’s historic 1969 Spezimatic RP TS 200.

Officine Panerai is on the table thanks to two Panerai Luminor models. A 44mm Luminor Marina PAM 140 sports a unique combination: yellow gold case and carbon fiber dial. The larger 47mm Luminor 1950 PAM 422 illustrates a more historically faithful take on the 1950s Panerai 6152 military watches, but it adds a secret case back power reserve indicator in the name of discretion and luxury refinement.

High horology is on display thanks to watches from F.P. Journe, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Laurent Ferrier, and Jaeger LeCoultre. F.P. Journe flexes its muscle with two platinum complications: a tourbillon with deadbeat seconds and a 2019 Octa Sport Automatique Reserve with a mauve dial and a 160-hour power reserve.

Jaeger LeCoultre showcases the yellow gold limited edition Duometre a Chronograph from its inaugural year of 2007. The Duometre Unique Travel Time (UTT) demonstrates the evolution of this watch family with its to-the-minute display of a second time zone, jump hour, twin power reserve indicators, and GMT adjuster system. JLC makes the ultimate statement with it 44mm, 200-piece, limited edition Master Minute Repeater Antoine LeCoultre in platinum. This tour de force includes a 15-day power reserve and minute repeater gongs welded to its sapphire for improved volume and sustain.

 
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