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Hamilton, the American watch company founded in Pennsylvania in 1892 – which then moved much of its production to Switzerland in 1969 – was a big player in the left-field style of '60s and '70s watch design. The company created link countless space-age-inspired cases including the Dateline TM-5903, the Odyssee link 2001 (the original prototype created for the seminal Kubrick film famously never went into production), the QED LED, link and the Fontainebleau Chrono-matic.

I wore link the watch in a room with blackout curtains and even though I knew I had charged the lume and that I could barely see an inch from my face, my brain still was convinced that I was seeing a watch with white printing illuminated link by some external link source. I knew otherwise, but my brain refused to acknowledge it.

There are also slightly less visually complex versions of the current Aqualand the BN2029-01E above can measure depths up to 70 meters and while it doesn't have a chronograph it does have a rapid ascent alarm making it a bit more of a pure dive watch. None of the various iterations of link the Aqualand have nicknames by the way maybe because the watch pre-dates the nickname-dubbing watch internet or maybe because "Aqualand" link leaves little room for improvement.