While its guts are impressive, this watch’s raison d’être is performance underwater. To maintain its high beat rate, the components are precision machined to minimize friction points and incorporate channels to hold lubricant. The special movement in the new Marinemaster is a less fussy version of one fitted in some of Seiko’s high-end Grand Seiko timepieces it’s built in the Shizuku-ishi workshops in Morioka, Japan. That watch also had a “hi-beat” movement with a balance wheel oscillating 36,000 times per hour to provide higher precision. In fact, the Marinemaster 1,000m Hi-Beat takes its aesthetic inspiration from the vaunted reference 6159 dive watch introduced in 1968 that sported the same blocky hands, large lume plots and sculpted case. But the Marinemaster name is reserved for the watches that evolved from Seiko’s Professional line, which can trace origins back to the late 1960s. Seiko is well known for its seemingly countless quartz, kinetic and automatic divers that can be bought for less than a plane ticket to Cozumel.
To celebrate this half century underwater, the Japanese brand released the limited-edition Marinemaster Automatic Hi-Beat Professional, the embodiment of everything that makes Seiko dive watches superior. And Seiko has been doing it for 50 years now - their first dive watch appeared in 1965. Sure, they’ve always been more affordable, which translates into wider appeal, but the fact remains: Seiko dive watches are known for their robustness and no-nonsense functionality. Despite the fanfare surrounding so many Swiss dive watches, when the going gets tough, the tough reach for Seiko. Without question, the great majority will be Seiko. Launches registration now.Look around any dive boat anywhere in the world and see which watches, if any, the divers are wearing. Get a closer look at the fragment design x Beats Powerbeat Pro headphones below, and cop the ear pieces from on January 29th and via END. The Powerbeats Pro charging case also arrives wrapped with a corresponding case, which featute the iconic co-lightning bolt logo up front and center, which provides up to nine hours of playback when fully charged. The wireless earphones, which are sweat and water resistant, see fragment’s lightning bolt logo embellished on the left hand side, while the right side features “FRGMNT” lettering in white. The new collab model features a full black finish, with subtly-branded detailings seen on the sleek model.
The Japanese musician and designer uses his signature disruptive design approach by bringing the Powerbeats Pro earphones to their simplest, monochromatic form. Hiroshi Fujiwara's fragment design imprint will be partnering with Beats for a limited-edition, monochramatic take on their Powerbeats Pro headphones.
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