Naturally, many of IWC’s pilot’s watches are available with a green dial, but just as military watches are but one facet of IWC’s oeuvre, it’s not just their pilot’s watches that are available with a green dial. While many watch manufacturers have supplied militaries over the years, one of the most famous is IWC Schaffhausen, whose famous Big Pilot model line pays homage to the pilot’s watches the brand produced during WWII. The very first green-dialled watches were military watches, with the colour chosen for its functional benefits over any sense of aesthetic brilliance. IWC Schaffhausen Image: Jamie Weiss/DMARGE Retailing for between AU$1,250 and AU$4,995, they won’t break the bank either if you’re looking to get in on the green watch wave. These might be serious tool watches but such a hue is surprisingly versatile and would suit the office just as well as the ocean. We love a watch with a story behind it, and Iriomote-inspired dark green that colours these watches is particularly handsome. But for those who aren’t so keen on amateur watch surgery are in luck: the Japanese firm has just unveiled a limited-edition collection of green-dialled Prospexes that pay homage to Iriomote Island, an Okinawan diving Mecca famous for its verdant sights, surrounds and sea life. Seiko boasts one of the most passionate watch customisation scenes out of any watch brand, so green-dialled Seiko dive watches aren’t anything new. RELATED: The New ‘Holy Trinity’ Taking The Watch World By Storm #Green aesthetic professional#Prospex is their sub-brand that specialises in dive watches, which are widely respected among professional divers and landlubber watch fans alike. One of the largest watch brands in the world, Seiko has been responsible for a number of world firsts in the world of watchmaking, most notably introducing the world’s first quartz watch. No serious discussion about watches – whether it be about affordable everyday pieces to the absolute crème de la crème of luxury wrist candy – can be had without mentioning Seiko. Now, green is back in a big way – and we’ve found a few brands worth investing in if you want to get in on the action. Green-dialled watches have gone in and out of fashion over the years, with the colour experiencing a slight revival in the middle of the 2010s that was quickly subsumed by a return to black and the ascendancy of blue. We’re already seeing glimpses of the next big trend: green dials. Models like the Tudor Black Bay 58 ‘Navy Blue’ or the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Mariner collection have been flying off the shelves – demonstrative of the watch-buying public’s appetite for more than just black and silver-dialled pieces. For the last 12 months, the big trend in watch dials has been blue, with countless op-eds being written about ‘the year of the blue dial’. Yawn.īut it seems as if brands (and their fans) are getting more imaginative when it comes to dial colours. Watches are a similar story, too: leading watch marketplace Chrono24’s stats consistently show year after year, black is the most popular dial colour for watches. The kinds of cars we drive are even more conservative, with white, grey and silver responsible for well over half of all cars sold in Australia. When it comes to clothes, most people stick to basic hues. Humans are capable of seeing an entire rainbow of colours, but when it comes to what colours we choose to buy or wear, we tend to be quite unimaginative.
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