Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Evant Decodiver
Some of my favorite watches to cover these days have been those produced by smaller brands. Whether they’re brands I?ve written about for this series, such as Maen and Nezumi, or those I?ve been beaten to covering by WatchTime editor Logan Baker (he?s quick), such as Brew and Seals Watch Co.? what has impressed me most about these micro-brands is their “blank slate” freedom of design, and the resulting stylistic creativity that emerges from it. As no one who reads these columns would find surprising, I find this process most interesting in vintage-inspired watches.
It?s fascinating to observe how these companies mix and match old designs with new, placing the watches and their burgeoning stories in the canon of the industry?s history, with the ultimate goal of creating new and interesting pieces that strive to find lasting space for themselves on the wrists of modern consumers. This week we come to another such brand, and another historical remix of a watch design, in the Evant Decodiver. The 2018-released watch is an amalgam of mostly 1960s and ?70s designs in the pursuit of a contemporary and fashionable dive watch.
From its outside in, the Decodiver treads into experimental design territory. With a multi-faceted 41-mm steel case and a 4 o?clock crown, the design seems like a cross between a 1968 Seiko 6159-7001 and an old, military-grade British G10 field watch, though the brand only explicitly refers to legendary watch designer Gérald Genta as an in...
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