Navy-Inspired Dive Watches
While military personnel are no longer issued wristwatches as essential gear, a number of brands continue to celebrate their historic legacies in supplying armed forces with high-precision timekeepers.
Panerai’s esteemed military history includes the robust, luminous dive watches it supplied for the Italian Royal Navy in 1935 for a secret program of underwater assault vehicles. Last year, the brand partnered with the U.S. Navy SEALs in a set of five watches that bear the elite unit’s label. In military green, the Submersible Chrono Navy SEALs Experience Edition–PAM1402 ($61,700, limited to 50 pieces, center) is a 47-mm flyback chronograph in the brand’s brushed …