what led me to the BP bathyscaphe

[mikeylacroix]

thought i'd provide better pics than the original thread:
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anyways, coupla years ago when I first read about it on ABTW & Hodinkee...I thought to myself 'I wonder how it would look on a bracelet?'
fast forward a few months and I had a chance to try it on at an AD and left not particularly impressed..higher end piece on a nato just didn't seem right..even if its a high end nato
that, the 'plain-ness' of it and that I was jone-sing for a Zenith El Primero lit no fire


somehow, it kept popping up on blogs and what not, I reached out to my personal watch enabler dealer..
a week later, he got me a used piece for a great price...bastard.


stark & clean dial




nicely bevel-ed date window cutout



applied indices are always nice = white gold I think?

minimal dial writing

matte-ish in certain lights

super glossy in others

pairing well with the ceramic bezel



i fitted in on a 24mm HR curved end rubber strap, shaving it off with a paring knife

the solid buckle looks great



i generally like crown guards..this works well without




which leads me to the kickass movement

5 day PR with a gold rotor

its running at +1/day I think..?

so purrty..and the strap fits so well!


green lume works well with this fella






i never say never..but this is probably a long term keeper