Introducing the Marnaut Dark Surge 300, an Affordable Dive Watch Fit for the Adriatic
Today?s watch industry is growing increasingly diffuse, spread out across the globe and giving rise to compelling small companies and interesting regional ideas. Croatia is home to a brand new company called Marnaut. Mario Jutronic is the man behind the brand, and his first watch is the Dark Surge 300, a 42-millimeter diver with robust specs and a wonderful design inspiration.Mr. Jutronic grew up snorkeling in the Adriatic Sea looking for urchins. As a designer, he?s borrowed from the radiating symmetry of their skeletons, which is perfectly suited to a dive watch dial. A grand total of 46 individual metal indices filled with C3 Super-LumiNova make up the unmistakable sea-urchin pattern. I love when a dive watch is given a spirit animal (the Turtle, the Mako, etc.), and the sea-urchin turns out to be a seriously badass bottom dweller, some living as long as 200 years in what we humans would consider brutal conditions.The Dark Surge?s dial appears in photos to be a rich, deep background befitting of this watch?s name. By changing up the case and bezel, three variants are achieved: brushed stainless case with silver bezel (MDS300S); brushed stainless with black bezel (MDS300T); black plated case with black bezel (MDS300B). I?d have a very hard time choosing one of these models, as they?re all quite slick and equally urchin-like.
From left to right: MDS300S, MDS300T, and MDS300B
The bezel is anodized aluminum, with a lume-filled pip and five-minute markers. The lack o...
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