The First Mass-Produced Dive Watch: the BUSHIPS watch
WW2 was the first large-scale amphibious & naval war in history. This meant that more and more combat units had to have the ability to operate in harsh and unpredictable environments, including...
Underwater Demolition Teams - The OG Combat Divers
Born from necessity, these UDTs would be critical in reconnaissance & shaping beach-heads before Allied landings Born from the US Navy’s analysis of the amphibious landing disasters of WW1, i...
The Faces Behind Praesidus, Tom Rice
It is hard to imagine a more perfect hero in many ways. Thomas Marcus Rice was born towards the dawn of the roaring twenties, growing up in a world imbued with the relief and optimism of the Great ...
How The Modern Praesidus Is The Perfect EDC Watch
It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of EDC (EveryDay Carry) was a new topic of conversation in watchmaking circles. Now, however, it is a firmly established trend that is most certainly here to st...
Anyone that has been involved in the watchmaking industry for any length of time will tell you that hunting down your perfect watch takes a lot of determination and patience. One should never exp...
How Military Watches Brought The Watch To The Wrist
Nowadays, we take the fact that watches live on the wrist for granted, but it was not always this way. In fact, for the time-honored craft of watchmaking, the adoption of the wrist as the watch’s p...
