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A little Doxa action


Nanuq

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Wow, Clive Cussler has one, Dirk Pitt too – it´s the first Doxa Sub 300 Pro I´ve ever seen on the forum.

Always loved that orange dial and the simple and bulletproof logics of that uni-directional bezel with the

no decompression time limits on the inner ring.

Congrats on that one Nanuq, simply great – and thanks for the pic.

It simply looks great.

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Thanks! That means a lot coming from a pro diver. Notice the USD logo in the 3rd quadrant? That makes it a "Black Lung", one of perhaps 10 ever made.

And it's a little known fact that 3 more besides mine live right here on RWG.

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Thanks! That means a lot coming from a pro diver. Notice the USD logo in the 3rd quadrant? That makes it a "Black Lung", one of perhaps 10 ever made.

And it's a little known fact that 3 more besides mine live right here on RWG.

 

I should have brought that one on ebay that time when it became available last year (when nanuq told me to) . I hope to grab one in the future if the price is reasonable

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The aqualung is covered by the second hand square. So thats one of those extremely rare with the hand engraved lugs and it´s a no-t Sub 300. That´s an about 1968 vintage. Fantastic, collectible watch, really something special "The Best Sub" :) . You have it´s story?

This has been fun renovating my interest for the Doxa, so I will follow the progress of mission 31.

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Thanks mate! I told the story here a few years ago, here it is:

 

The coolest of the 300s was called the Black Lung. There were only a handful made, so they're rare as an honest politician. I did a LOT of looking and got banned from the Doxa site in the process (a long story) but eventually found one. I mentioned it to my diver friend and it turns out when he helped start SeaLab he was also doing some R&D for Doxa and they gave him one as a thank-you. He tried to find it so he could give it to me (more generosity) and discovered it had been lost somewhere in all his moves.

 

Now this is cool: he lived in Chicago for awhile. And a Black Lung was just sold on Ebay, it was discovered in a box of old watches in Chicago by the son of some junk collector that rooted around and found all these old watches. So I wrote the guy that won it, and told him the story; who knows if it's the same piece? But what a story.

Here's a better picture of the Aqualung logo:

 

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That's quite a story and makes it the more interesting and a perfect pic with the orange dot still shining. That's a piece that made history on Your wrist. Very exotic indeed. Looking at this classic design makes You think why there aren´t modern thoughts about how to give a watch additional simple and effective mechanical functions besides showing the time (Rolex to simple inspite using it a lot to time things and Breitling with excess of functions and too small lettering). This was a pleasure to revisit:)

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Very nice.. I have a Doxa as well but without the same story behind it, sadly... but it is a newer version with a similar case and bracelet :)

Enjoy!

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Sweet watch! I saw a guy wearing one in San Diego a couple months ago, and couldn't keep my eyes off it!

 

That is also a piece you don't see a lot of guys wearing around everyday, so it has tremendous wrist presence. 

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