The Millennium Watch Book: The Diver’s Watch

Dust off that empty space on your bookshelf and make some room: the third volume in The Millennium Watch Book series has arrived, ready to be gift wrapped for the holiday season.

The Millennium Watch Book: The Diver’s Watch focuses on the essential companion for journeys to the depths of the seas: the mechanical dive watch. Exploring that transition from a pure tool watch to an essential part of a watch aficionado’s collection, the XXL 200-page book was carefully edited and assembled by experts in the field, headed by GMT Publishing’s Director Brice Lechevalier.

This complete overview of diving watches is now available online, just in time for the holidays as a gift for lover of mechanical watches. And if you want to go even bigger, you can purchase Volume 0 (The Millennium Watch Book) and Volume 1 (the Tourbillon Edition) along with the Diver’s Watch edition and get 10% off your order on www.the-watch-book.com.

About The Millennium Watch Book Collection

Following the success of the first volume, The Millennium Watch Book, in 2020, GMT Publishing decided to expand the idea to a collection, publishing one thematic book a year until 2030. 2021 was focused on the evolution of the tourbillon, for the mechanism’s 220th anniversary, followed by this year’s edition on diving watches.

Each edition is written and assembled by an editorial committee and experts, headed by GMT Publishing’s Director Brice Lechevalier, and retains its XXL coffee-table book approach for each volume.

Readers will find inside the pages of The Millennium Watch Book: The Diver’s Watch the editorial committee’s picks of 50 imperative diving watches produced since the year 2000 to know about. The committee also dedicated a chapter to the technicity of diving watches and another on professional divers and free divers that frequently use mechanical diving watches. Experts also analyse the explosion of diving watches on the vintage and Certified Pre-Owned market, and even look forward to the future with a retrospective on what’s still possible to develop in the next 10 years in this rich segment of the watchmaking industry.

Fans of the Rolex Submariner will not only find the reference on the cover, but a whole chapter dedicated to the piece and its influence in making a “tool” watch into a “cool”, luxury accessory. And special spreads were also dedicated to the Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms and Panerai’s Submersible—timepieces that each defined and redefined the concept of a diver’s watch.

Info about the book

The Millenium Watch Book - The Diver's Watch

Printing limited to 4,000 copies

Editorial committee:

• Brice Lechevalier 
• Joy Corthésy
• Sophie Furley 
• David Chokron
• Olivier Müller

Writers: Roberta Naas, Timmy Tan, Serge Panczuk, Xavier Markl, Jason Heaton, Justin Mastine-Frost, Ken Kessler, Yannick Nardin.

Photographers: Marc Ninghetto, Gishani Ratnayake, Sebastien Aubord. 

• Dimension: 380 x 285mm
• Number of pages: 200
• Number of illustrations: 600
• Number of brands: 50
• Release date: 2022
• MSRP: CHF 190.00 (tax. included)
• ISBN 978-2-8399-3616-3

For more information on The Millenium Watch Book Collection, visit www.the-watch-book.com