These are those respectful nods that Trieste has done on the Deepsea that makes me appreciate the history represented here with their watch. Most would agree that the case on the Deep Sea is reminiscent of those early Panerai Radiomir cases, but the signed screw down crown reminds me of the crown on the Rolex Mil-Sub 6538. □ But I want to break it down this way in my own observations and interpretation. But since Panerai was producer of diving equipment for the Italian Navy but not actual watches, the early Radiomir movements, cases, crowns where produced by Rolex therefore, I can technically say that the influences here are from Rolex. Now the other influences that I found appealing on the Deepsea is a combination of early Rolex and Panerai watches. (Tudor Self Winding Rotor) The white printing on the dial is extremely legible thanks to the beautiful backdrop in the form of the matte black dial. I like the curvature of the word automatic illustating how TRIESTE gave a nod of respect to those early Tudor dive watches, but infused it with their TRIESTE touch. What I find appealing about the Deep Sea’s dial is the combination of vintage charm influences from those early dive watches that started it all. Hence where the TRIESTE name came from and where the white printed 1960 printed on the dial came from. An underwater vehicle designed in Switzerland and built in Italy, the bathyscaphe Trieste is, to this day, the only manned submersible to have ever reached 10,916 metres below sea level.” The two pictures above are of the TRIESTE sub itself from its 1960 adventure. The Deep Sea watch main inspiration came from “ In January 1960, man achieved an incredible feat when the deep-sea submersible, the bathyscaphe Trieste, reached the bottom of ithe Challenger Deep, in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. The Trieste inspiration came from Italian sources, but the main inspiration isn’t what you think.
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