Young British company Farer releases its first set of diving watches, named the Aqua Compressor

British brand Farer made its mechanical debut with a collection of automatic three-handers in November 2016, followed by a Farer GMT in May. Now we have the Aqua Compressor, a diving watch in three different colours.

Designed in London and manufactured by Swiss company Roventa-Henex, Farer?s trademarks are zippy colour schemes, a bronze crown/steel case combination, and an arrow tip on the seconds hand.
The Aqua Compressor has all three: there?s the Hecla, featuring a blue dial with yellow and red accents, and the Leven, with a black and burnt orange bezel. (That being said, there?s also a black-dialled Endeavour which is perhaps Farer?s most sober watch yet.)
Each one also has a bronze crown, and a second hand with a green A-shaped tip.
It?s in a cushion-shaped case based on the Super-Compressor, which was manufactured from the 1950s into the early 1970s; the slight chunkiness also calls to mind other 1970s models like the Hamilton Pan-Europ, or Bulova Accutron Spaceview.

The Farer Aqua Compressor steel case
The 41.5mm cases are machined from solid blocks of stainless steel, and are water-resistant to 300m.
This is thanks to twin screw-down, spring-release crowns with their own gaskets, one bronze and one steel. The former, engraved with the ?A? logo and positioned at 2 o?clock, is for setting the time, while the latter at 4 o?clock is for adjusting the unidirectiona...