SkyDiver
Model History
More legend than documented fact surrounds the original SkyDiver: according to the most widely accepted account, the project originated in the late 1960s from a confidential request made to Edox — said to have come from a Swiss colonel — to equip elite mountain paratrooper units with an instrument capable of working both underwater and at altitude. The result was reportedly a hybrid watch, halfway between a rugged dive watch and an aviator's instrument, remaining for decades a sparsely documented, almost mythical chapter in the brand's catalogue.
After long sitting on the margins of current production, the SkyDiver name has recently been revived by Edox with a series of limited editions that recapture its historic distinguishing traits: the 42 mm case, the strongly domed sapphire crystal and a deliberately "aged" aesthetic, with dials treated to simulate the patina of time and leather straps with a lived-in look.
In today's catalogue the SkyDiver coexists with the Delfin as the more pronounced "tool watch" soul of Edox's diving range: less oriented toward everyday elegance, closer in spirit to a military field instrument, with a rotating ceramic bezel and water resistance up to 300 meters, while still keeping the same double O-ring crown system shared across the brand's entire diving production.
Technical Specifications
Main Executions
For much of its history the original SkyDiver remained a model with virtually no official documentation: the story of its birth as a confidential commission for elite paratroopers has circulated for years among enthusiasts precisely because Edox itself long spoke of it more as brand legend than as a historical episode verifiable in detail.