Airplane Diver

Zeno-Watch Basel's diving vocation was born in 1969, when the brand presented the "Compressor", a water-resistant dive watch adopted by the Swiss Army's combat divers, with a stated water resistance of up to 300 metres: a remarkable achievement for the time, launched in the same year as another experimental model from the brand, the futuristic "Spacemen".

That diving tradition continues today in the Airplane Diver line, whose name brings together the brand's two historic souls — aviation and marine — in a single wrist instrument: a rugged 45 mm case 16 mm thick, a graduated unidirectional bezel, a large crown designed to be operated even with gloves, and water resistance that on the automatic versions now reaches 500 metres, well beyond the mark set by the Compressor in the 1960s.

Offered in numerous variants — automatics with the Swiss ETA 2824-2 movement, quartz with chronograph or GMT functions, with high-visibility two-tone dials — the Airplane Diver is today one of the most widespread lines in the Zeno-Watch Basel catalogue, often cited as one of the brand's most popular and recognisable designs.