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Titanium case with a titanium bracelet. Unidirectional titanium bezel. Black dial with luminous hands and dot hour markers. Minute markers around the outer rim. GMT scale. Luminescent hands and markers. Date display at the 3 o'clock position. Quartz movement. Scratch immune sapphire crystal. Protected screw down crown. Screw down case back. Case diameter: 43 mm. Double locking safety clasp. Water immune at 500 meters / 1650 feet. Additional Information: date displays at 3 o'clock position. Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master Men's Watch 241262.

The Victorinox Swiss Army Story

In 1884, Karl Elsener opened a cutlery workshop in Ibach-Schwyz, Switzerland with the aid of his mother Victoria. Just like that, Victorinox Swiss Army was born.

In 1891, Elsener and his coworkers deliver knives for soldiers in the Swiss Army for the original time. Six years later, the company legally protected the names Swiss "Officer's" and "Sport Knife." The model later became known as the Original Swiss Army Knife.

Following Elsener's mother's death in 1909, the company integrated her name into the brand and unveiled it is well-known cross and shield emblem. Elsener arrived at the name Victorinox by combining the name Victoria with "inox," an abbreviation of the French word for rust-resistant steel, "inoxydable."

In 1989, Victorinox officially entered the timepiece business in the United States beneath the brand name Swiss Army. In 1999, Victorinox collaborators with the American TRG Group in St. Louis and enters into the global travel gear market. In 2001, the company launched a fashion line in the U.S. with a collection that delivers technical and tailored styling capturing the brand’s essence of practical luxury. If that wasn't enough, in 2007 Victorinox sets up Victorinox Swiss Army Fragrance AG, and in 2009 Victorinox Swiss Unlimited was launched.

Victorinox Swiss Army treasures it is heritage, the future is evenly inspiring. Innovation is at the heart of each Victorinox product it introduces, with stimulating technical progress all around all it is product categories.

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5 of 5 persons found the following review helpful.
Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master Titanium makes no compromises
By Niall O. Donoghue
I've had my Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master Titanium for closely two years and it still feels new each morning.
It is a superbly designed, machined and matt honed watch and the price is breathtakingly lowcost for what one gets with this watch.
The case is bulky but the Titaniuam material compensates for that.
The bracelet is robust.
The only very minor gripe I have with this watch is the quality of the diver's clasp: it does not close with no problems or difficulties with a ascertaining double snap.
So it is not rather up there with clasp quality of Breitling and Omega.
Other than that, I have no quibbles with this watch.
I also own a Breitling Aerospace Chronograph Titanium which has COSC certification, but to be honest, this keeps as good time anyway as any COSC watch.
So if you are looking for a robust yet somewhat lightweight activity/diver watch which oozes quality, look no further than the Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master Titanium.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Very Nice, Quite Pleased. (But too thick.)
By Ed Menke
For a heap of things, the picture looks better than the thing. For this watch, the watch itself looks far better than the picture. A few quick points.
1) It's big. If you have less-than-average size hands, it'll look too big.
2) It's thick. If you want a thin watch, look elsewhere. (I do wish it were thinner.)
3) It's heavy. 4.7ozs with 2 links removed. I would not want this watch in steel.
4) It's frickin' titanium, people. Solid, end-to-end.

PVD blows. I had a steel/PVD-coated Heuer. After a few years, it scratched-off and looked CRAPPY! This watch has a nice, "Fine-brushed" finish. (It looks much better if you have the patience/resources to polish-out the brushed finish; a Dremel will do.) When PVD chips-out, you have no such options, and your watch will look like crap.

Titanium alloy is harder than stainless steel, so it will scratch less. PVD normally involves a form of titanium, so it isn't more-or-less hard, but again, when it at last scratches/chips-out -- and it will -- you can't "fix" PVD. The color of titanium (a sort of light yellow/gray/brown) is rather lovely.

Finally, I don't need to calculate "time-to-mark" on my yacht, or airspeed/arrival time of my private plane too often, so I don't need an 18-function wrist-based chronometer. I am a diver, but I don't even need a dive watch for that. (Hello, application-specific computers for everything nowadays.) I do, however, oftentimes need to cram a quarter in a slot and do not forget when the meter maid is going to ticket me. A rotating bezel is perfective for that.

Very, very pleased with it.

Finally, numerous other reviewer proposes it "doesn't polish as well as stainless steel." I don't know rather what that means. It doesn't polish "as easily?" That's true. (It's a harder material, and consequently harder to machine and polish.) It can't be "as shiny?" That's false. It's not colorless? That's true.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great value.
By Frank C
I had my Victorinox for 12 months and may share a reasonable review.
Other than the clasp not having a "positive" lock, it is a outstanding watch. Looks more costly that it is, it is easy to see the time. I play golf with it, the weight does not bother me, it is titanium and 1/3 equated to a steel watch. The dull finish is awesome, I think it looks better now that when it was new.

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