Following on from your incredible feedback and reviews of our Daily Beater Field watch, I humbly present to you, our second watch: The NOTO OGGIN, Mil-Spec dive watch for those of us who love high performance tool watches who probably don't dive much in the ocean or the Oggin as a bootneck calls it.
I wanted to create a dive style Mil-spec watch that didnt take itself too seriously. When I was in the military I would come into contact with special forces soldiers and apart from being highly effective operators one thing that always stood out about these guys was their sick sense of humour. It was crime for anyone who took themselves too seriously and for anyone who turned up with an Arnie US Navy SEAL, approved by Johnny Rambo sniper watch then stand by for a royal rinsing. I was lucky to have spent a fair bit of time with lads from the Royal Marines and as hard and deadly as they all were, they would love to rip the piss and get dressed up in a tutu for a run ashore dressed in silly rig right before jumping in the freezing oggin.
Performance mattered but so did humility.
So my inspiration for this design was the Mil-W-50717 US Military Specification of watches originally created for military divers back in the 70's. I wanted to create a modern version that was highly specced, accurate, good looking, tough, designed to get wet and cheaper than a Seiko or G-shock to buy and own.
This is a watermans watch whether its swimming, snorkelling, surfing, scuba diving, fishing, jumping in muddy puddles with your kids or dragging your dog out of the park lake. Its designed to get wet. A lot.
No it is not a dive computer and it doesnt have decompression times printed on the strap, its a watch for every day watermen (and women).
I wanted a watch that got better looking with age and use, I wanted it to be fire and forget so I went with the mega accurate and reliable Seiko VH31 quartz movement with the cool semi-sweeping seconds hand. Domed sapphire crystal and pumpkin lume to give it a sweet vintage and less sterile look.
Pressure tested to 200 metres of water Resistance, screw-down crown and caseback. I also wanted a 12 hour bezel that you can actually use to track a second time zone when travelling or drinking pina coladas in the pool in Tenerife.
To add even more value I've had the caseback engraved and paired up the watch with one of our FKM rubber tropic watch straps which is worth £30 as well as a black nylon Classic Military straps with matching sand blasted steel hardware. Finally Ive backed it with our no BS lifetime guarantee.
You get:
1 x NOTO OGGIN Steel Watch
1 x FKM Rubber tropical strap with quick release spring bars.
1 x Black Nylon Classic Military Strap with sandblasted steel hardware
1 pair of 20mm steel spring bars for the nylon strap.
1 x Crap packaging (It keeps the cost down)
No instructions (Its a watch! Unscrew the crown and pull out, set the time, screw the crown back down until it locks, use vigorously)
Specifications
- Case Diameter: 41.5 mm
- Case Height: 11.4 mm
- Lug Width: 20mm
- Lug to lug length: 46.15 mm
- Full sandblasted 316L stainless steel case w/ screw-down crown
- Double domed sapphire crystal
- Anti-reflective coating
- Two tone Super-Lume on dial markers and hands
- Uni directional rotating sandblasted 316L stainless steel bezel, aluminum inner ring
- Super accurate Seiko Quartz VH31 movement with 4 seconds per tick automatic style sweeping seconds hand
- 20 ATM water resistance / 200 metres
- Black FKM rubber tropical strap with pin buckle
-Nylon black classic military style nylon strap with matching sandblasted steel hardware
- Screw down case back, sandblasted steel
- MIL SPEC NOTO OGGIN engraving
-Lifetime warranty (battery excluded), 90 days no risk returns.
Stock is extremely limited and manufacturing time is 90 days so please don't hesitate to buy if interested as it will be at least three months before we get the next run in.
