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#DOXA SERIAL NUMBERS PROFESSIONAL#
This rare watch features an incredibly crisp and vivid orange Professional dial, an impeccable bezel, correct signed screw-down crown, sailing ship caseback, and even the correct elasticizedbeads of rice bracelet with first year "DOXA Sub 300" markings and lever for ratcheting micro-adjustments. DOXA recently paid tribute to this model with their 50th Anniversary model, but the example we have here is the real deal - one of the first ever purpose-built orange-dial DOXA Sub 300s from 1967. While not nearly as well-known as the Blancpain Fifty-Fathoms or the Rolex Submariner, the DOXA Sub series played an integral role in the development of the modern diver's watch. The first generation of the model, introduced in 1967, brought innovations we now take for granted the uni-direcitonal bezel with the US Navy's no-decompression dive timing marks engraved, the expanding bracelet, and oversized luminous minute hands to name a few.Īfter its introduction, DOXA rapidly became a household name for professional and amateur divers in the late 1960s and 1970s, and the Sub 300 evolved into an even more capable and reliable instrument.īut the first generation - known affectionately amongst enthusiasts as the "Sub 300 No-T" or "thin-case" models were only produced for a single year, and in our estimate there are less than one hundred remaining examples in the world. The mere mention of "the orange-faced DOXA diver's watch" today will send a shiver of delightful recognition through tool-watch enthusiasts the world-over. Our founder's love of vintage wristwatches began with the Sub 300 series, which he first discovered mentioned on the pages of Clive Cussler novels while still in grade school. We think its safe to say that we're well known for our love of DOXA.