Last year, DOXA hit a home run with their now sold out 50th Anniversary SUB 300 Professional ?heritage? reissue, a watch that honored the original DOXA Sub to a tee (pun intended). Today, DOXA is following up with a grand slam of an announcement with the DOXA SUB 300 ?Black Lung? limited edition, a watch that celebrates DOXA?s important relationship with Aqua Lung?the renowned scuba gear company?as well as a historic and rare diver born of that partnership. Aqua Lung pioneered the first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba), which of course led to expanded possibilities for underwater exploration and to a boom in recreational diving. In 1967, DOXA introduced the first SUB, a specially designed tool watch for divers, and it quickly gained the approval of those early diving pioneers. Later that same year, DOXA and Aqua Lung would team up to create a prototype SUB with a yellow and black Aqua Lung logo printed in the lower left quadrant of the iconic orange dial.
One of the originals. Image courtesy of ablogtowatch.
This original prototype was nicknamed the ?Black Lung? by collectors in reference to the logo, and it has since become an incredibly rare and desirable watch in the collecting community as only a handful were ever made. The US Divers company started to distribute DOXA watches, and many subsequent iterations of the SUB would carry a standard US Divers/Aqua Lung logo on the dial. Eventually, US Divers and Aqua Lung would consolidate into one ...