For a watch company that usually builds dive watches with a water resistance of up to 4,000 meters, UTS?s smallest dive model ? the 1000M V2 Dive Watch Pacific Horizon ? still comes with an impressive 42-mm version of the brand?s signature case design (or 43 mm if measuring the bezel?s diameter). What makes this watch a bit less extreme and, at the same time, more versatile is, on the one hand, a blue dial (called ?Pacific Horizon?) and, on the other, a reduced height of 14.5 mm, compared to its up-to-18.5-mm-tall sister models.

UTS (an abbreviation for Uhren Technik Spinner, or Watch Technology Spinner) was founded in 1999 by Nicolaus Spinner, a German engineer with a passion for watches, who started the company with a manual-wind model with removable lugs, making it possible to be worn as a wristwatch or pocketwatch. (For the detailed story, check out our brand profile of UTS.) The same construction with affixed lugs can be found in all of the brand?s watch models, even though the hex screws probably have a more visual than functional role when it comes to the dive watches in the collection. The result, however, is a high-tech, robust look and feel that usually is best described as a ?tool watch,? despite the slightly more elegant blue dial. The watch is equipped with a solid caseback or an optional display caseback revealing an ETA 2824-2.
Spinner assembles and mills all cases on his own CNC machines in Holzkirchen (a short drive away from Bavaria?s capital city, Muni...