Buy this instead of the homage you were looking at
By Dave Kowalski, Chicago ยท
That's my whole opinion. Now here's why.
39 mm wide, 12.9 mm thick, 20 mm lugs. That is the sweet spot for a diver you'll actually wear every day. It fits under a jacket cuff in January and it doesn't look like a hockey puck in July. The design is its own thing too, kind of a 60s skin-diver vibe without copying any one Swiss watch beat for beat, which I appreciate.
Inside is a Miyota 9039, which is the no-date version of the 9015. Higher beat than the cheap Seiko stuff, smoother sweep, 42 hours of reserve. Not amazing on reserve. Not bad. Takes it off Saturday, it's probably still running Sunday night if you're lucky.
200 m, sapphire, rotating bezel, on a steel bracelet. $650 to $790. Name me the Swiss brand that does all that for the money. You can't, because they don't.
My knock: the Miyota 9-series rotor can get a little noisy when you shake your wrist. Some guys hate that. I barely notice it over the noise of a job site, but at a quiet dinner you might. And if you need a date, you're out of luck on this one.