为何选择 Aquastar
关于品牌的常见问题,
我们用最直白的方式作答。
这是一份"长故事的简短版"。如果您是从其他高端瑞士潜水表品牌、或某段 Vintage 计时表的研究之路一路追溯到 Aquastar,这一页可以帮您判断:本站的其余内容是否值得您继续读下去。
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Aquastar 是谁?
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Aquastar 是一家瑞士潜水表制造商,1962 年于日内瓦以 Aquastar S.A.(ci-devant JeanRichard S.A.)之名完成注册;但该工坊在更早的 JeanRichard S.A. 时期,自 1959 年起便已开始申请潜水仪器相关专利。1959 至 1977 年间,该品牌共提交十项专利,奠定了现代潜水表的技术基础,其中包括免减压潜水表圈(1964),以及使 500 米 Benthos 成为可能的双密封防水表冠(1965)。在专注于 Regatta 2000 数字赛艇计时器三十六年后,机械潜水表生产线于 2020 年重启。如今工坊位于瑞士比尔。
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Aquastar 发明过什么?
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Ten patents filed between 1959 and 1977 by JeanRichard S.A. / Aquastar S.A. of Geneva under the direction of Frédéric Robert. Robert himself is the inventor of record on four, the 1959 combined wrist instrument (watch + bathymeter + compass + thermometer, CH 351 225), the 1963 dial bathymeter (CH 394 658), the 1965 dual-gasket waterproof crown (CH 15 601/65) that made the 500-meter Benthos possible, and the 1966 improved bathymeter (CH 436 746) built for the Cousteau-era saturation dives. The other six were filed by the team Robert assembled at the Geneva workshop: the inside-the-case rotating bezel (Ochsenbein + Erard, 1962), the no-decompression dive bezel (Marc Jasinski, 1964), the patent that became the modern Swiss dive-watch standard once it lapsed, an improved inside-case bezel (Robert Borne, 1968), a diver’s slide-rule (Hannes Keller, 1973), the yacht-race timer that became the Regate (Albert Piguet, 1974), and an early electronic depth-measuring apparatus (Ulf Tamm, 1974). One brand. One workshop. Ten inventions that built the modern dive watch.
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Aquastar 是独立小众品牌吗?
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不是。Aquastar 是一家持续运营六十四年的瑞士制造商,在潜水表领域拥有十项基础性专利,与法国海军 (Marine Nationale) 签订过三份采购合同(1970 年代至 1980 年代,法国海军向战斗潜水员配发第三代 Benthos),并被收录于美国海军潜水手册。自 1962 年起生产从未中断:1984 年前为机械潜水表,1984 至 2020 年为 Regatta 2000 数字系列,2020 年起重新回到机械潜水表。
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Why haven’t I heard of Aquastar?
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Between 1984 and 2020 Aquastar made digital regatta timers for competitive sailors, a niche the wider watch media doesn’t typically cover. Mechanical dive watch production only resumed in 2020. Most collectors who arrive at Aquastar today are coming from other high-end Swiss dive-watch brands or a vintage-chronograph rabbit hole, and looking for something older, smaller, and more specifically built for diving. The watch press has been catching up since 2020.
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什么是 Skindiver 潜水表?
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A "skindiver" is a watch-collector term for a compact, no-frills dive watch from the late 1950s and early 1960s, typically 36 to 38 mm in diameter, with a rotating dive bezel, a hand-wound or simple automatic movement, and a hairline-detail dial. The name comes from skin diving, the sport of diving with mask, fins and a snorkel that predated SCUBA. Aquastar’s Model 60 traces directly to a 1957 reference and is one of the few skindivers still produced by an original manufacturer.
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Aquastar 现在出品哪些潜水表?
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Four families, all traced directly to specific Aquastar watches from the 1957 to 1970 archive: the Deepstar (the dive chronograph, since 1962), the Benthos (the 500 m diver, since 1970), the Model 60 (the cushion-case skindiver, since 1957), and the Airstar (the pilot’s chronograph, since 1965). All four use modern Swiss mechanical movements and the original case geometry.
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哪些人佩戴过 Aquastar?
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Don Walsh, the first human, with Jacques Piccard, to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, wore an Aquastar Model 60 on that dive, a fact he personally verified to the brand. Jacques Mayol rotated three Aquastars through the 1970s, the Deepstar chronograph, the Benthos 500, and the Regate yacht-timer, and the watch on his wrist for his 1976 descent past 100 m on a single breath, off Elba, was the Benthos 500. Philippe Cousteau wore both the Deepstar and the Benthos throughout the Calypso years. The Marine Nationale issued the third-generation Benthos to its combat divers from 1979 to 1984. Today, the writer Jason Heaton owns and wears Aquastars across his work as co-host of The Grey NATO and as author of Depth Charge.
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Aquastar 售价多少?
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Live pricing and stock for every reference are on aquastar.ch, that is the single source of truth and the only place to order. New mechanical Aquastars cover four families (Model 60, Deepstar II, Deepstar 39 mm Chronograph, Deepstar III, Benthos, Airstar) at price points appropriate to each. Limited editions occasionally sit higher than standard production.
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Aquastar 在哪里制造?
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瑞士比尔。每一枚现代 Aquastar 都在比尔工坊完成装配、调校与测试。日内瓦工坊(1962 至 2020)已关闭;比尔工坊欢迎抵达瑞士的藏家预约到访。
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Aquastar 如何送修保养?
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在比尔,由资深制表师在自家工坊完成。我们为出品过的每一枚 Aquastar 提供终身维修,包括 1962 年起的 Vintage Deepstar、1970 年起的 Benthos 潜水表,以及 Regatta 2000 数字系列。我们仍保留 1962 年代机芯所用零件;我们的目录中没有"停产"二字。
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What’s the difference between a vintage Aquastar and a modern one?
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The case geometry is unchanged. The bezel pattern is identical, the original 1962 blueprints, kept by the Robert family, were used to specify the modern bezel-cutting tooling. The dial typography, the crown, the case-back gasket pattern, the hand shapes are all the same. What’s changed: modern Swiss movements (La Joux-Perret hand-wound column-wheels in the chronographs, ETA-derived automatics in the divers) where the originals used the discontinued Valjoux 23. Lume is now Super-LumiNova rather than tritium. Sapphire crystals rather than acrylic. Modern gaskets that hold their seal across service intervals.
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Aquastar 都是限量版吗?
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Most are. Total annual production is under 2,500 pieces across all four families. Limited editions are numbered and engraved on the case-back. Standard production runs are not numbered but are made in small batches, with allocation released on a rolling basis. The Founder’s Editions of the Deepstar and Benthos are limited to a few hundred pieces each and are usually allocated within weeks of release.
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Regatta 2000 还在生产吗?
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已停产。2020 年工坊迁至比尔、机械潜水表生产线重启之际,Regatta 2000 系列正式终止。现存的 Regatta 2000 腕表仍可在比尔工坊接受维修,我们保留零件库存。Vintage Regatta 2000 在二手市场上时有出现,在竞技帆船圈内是低调的藏品。
