We’re residing within the Golden Age of Enjoyable Watches, and there’s maybe no model having extra enjoyable with their watch collaborations than the irreverent preps at Rowing Blazers. Following sizzling on the heels of the model’s limited-editionCarrera chronograph made in live performance with TAG Heuer, classic watch mega-dealer Eric Wind, and watch customizer George Bamford, the colourful New York-based label is as soon as once more on the helm of a compelling mission—this time with Wind and Zodiac. When you’re unfamiliar with the latter’s Sea-Wolf, it was one of many very first dive watches in the marketplace in 1953. Following that seminal launch, the model later developed a sequence of sensible world timers for the jet-set, upon which the brand new Zodiac X Rowing Blazers Tremendous Sea Wolf World Time GMT relies.
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Housed in a 40mm chrome steel case, the watch’s design is impressed by Buying and selling Locations, the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. In a single hilarious scene, Aykroyd’s down-on-his-luck commodities dealer makes an attempt to pawn off his costly Swiss watch—“It tells the time concurrently in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad!”—solely to be supplied a measly fifty bucks by none aside from Bo Diddley.
Although the Tremendous Sea Wolf World Time GMT is just not, as Aykroyd claims of his ticker, “the thinnest waterproof watch on the earth,” it does, the truth is, concurrently inform the time in 27 completely different cities. Carlson, Wind, and Zodiac senior artistic director Ryan White hilariously included Monte Carlo, Paris, Gstaad, and Rome on the watch’s rotating, blue metropolis bezel—even supposing all are in the identical time zone. (Look intently and also you’ll discover that “Los Angeles” has additionally been changed with “Beverly Hills.”) The Aykrodian bezel apart, the collab is in any other case delicate, with a black dial graced with the Rowing Blazers brand above 6 o’clock, plus an extra black stripe with a zigzagging white sample made out of recycled ocean plastic. The watch ships on a chrome steel Jubilee-style bracelet.
