A diver that finally fits
By Hannah Lindqvist, Stockholm ยท
38 mm, 12.9 mm thick, no date, 200 m. Those numbers made me smile, because most dive watches are still built for forearms the size of oars. The Antarctic Diver is slim, symmetric, and sits flat on my wrist.
The black matte dial with lumed markers is very readable, and the rotating bezel has a clean ceramic or aluminium insert depending on where you read the spec. The penguin on the caseback is a nod to the Antarctic expeditions.
My one gripe: Nivada's own page contradicts itself on the bezel material, so check what you're buying. Small thing, but it matters if you want ceramic.
On the beads-of-rice bracelet it's $1,250, on leather or rubber $1,050. For a smaller wrist, it's one of the nicest affordable divers out there right now.