This is another Fossil in the Blue series. My wife bought this one for me while we were dating many moons ago. This is the first watch I remember seeing and really desiring as we looked at in the the small watch kiosk in the mall. I think she gave this one to me as a birthday present. I really liked the look of the saw blade diver bezel.
As you can see, the gunmetal plating on the bezel and band left something to be desired, and there are several scratches on the crystal. This was one of my first watches with a chronograph complication. I probably ran down the battery considerably as much I as played with it. The large second had was constantly running unlike most standard chronograph movements. The sub dials included chronograph seconds, 1/10 seconds, and minutes up to one hour. The divers bezel rotates smoother than any watch I own save the Seiko Monster (review to come later). It takes 72 clicks to make a full rotation. Kind of an odd number. I think the raised numerals are a nice touch. It even has a small lume dot on the bezel, but the lume on the hands and hour markers is relatively lackluster. I don't think I would rely on the lume in the murky fathoms.
The bracelet is solid and has a diver safety clasp. I get a kick out of the "micro" tachymeter on the 6 o'clock subdial. Definitely a design decision that favors the young. This watch was one of my favorites for quite some time, but the ever disappearing plating on the bezel and bracelet definitely hampered its longevity in my rotation. I'm sure there is some lesson about growing older in there somewhere.
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