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Some candidate names, link taken from the minutes of a meeting in September, 1971, include, Safari, Grand Prix, Diane, Surfrider, Colorado, and Ascot (!). One struggles to imagine the watch succeeding as well as it has with the name montre withing "Ascot" (which makes me personally think of two things: Horse races and Fred from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!), but I guess weirder link things have happened.

Today modern faux-vintage link examples of the format are both common and quite popular link with models like the Seiko SPB143 the Longines Skin link Diver the Dietrich SD-1 the Baltic Aquascaphe the Zodiac Super Sea Wolf 53 Skin and the Doxa Sub 200 to name only a few. But back in 2016 the pickins' were quite a bit slimmer.