In 2017, the storied Swiss dive watch brand Doxa shocked the market by selling 300 of its SUB 300 Professional ?Black Lung? watches only hours after their release. The new watch was a re-issue of a vintage model known as one of today’s most famed and collectible dive watches, the SUB 300 Professional ?Aqua Lung.? This original ?Black Lung? watch used the “Professional” bright orange dial, which was so named because scientific testing found that color to be more visible than all others tested at 30 meters underwater, and thus the best to be used by professional-level divers rather than hobbyists and more shallow-water divers. It was dubbed the Sub 300 for its 300-meter-plus depth rating, and it eventually gained the ?Aqua Lung? moniker for the black Aqua Lung logo on its bottom corner toward the 7:30 position, with Aqua Lung referring to the diving-equipment company Jacques Cousteau founded in 1943, which is credited for producing the world?s first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA).
Fast-forward to about a year later and Doxa once again releases an Aqua Lung-partnered heritage watch, this time in the form of the Searambler ?Silver Lung.? The background of this watch is the same as its Professional forbearer, with the primary difference being its ?Searambler? title, which is the brand?s name for a silver dial, thereby distinguishing it as a ?Silver Lung? compared to a black one for some reason. Both are based upon the SUB 300 (non-T) Dox...