This is my first blue dive watch, so I am very excited. I will be using these other watches for comparison, two of which I have previously owned (the HydroConquest and Aquis), and two of which I have substantially handled because I considered them (the Aquaracer and the Zodiac). After discounts, the Freelancer Diver came in at about $300.00 less than the new Longines Hydroconquest, about $450.00 less than the Oris Aquis, at about $700.00 less than the TAG Heuer Aquaracer 41mm with the cermaic bezel, and at about the same price as the Zodiac Super Sea Wolf Skin 53, when those watches were also discounted. They are authorized dealers and always give phenomenal discounts.
Affordable, you say, it retails for $1750! I promise nobody need pay so much, I purchased it from Leslie Gold Watches in Los Angeles. As John Mayer recently said on Hodinkee, we want what we think making it meant from the time that we knew what making it meant.Īdditionally, this is simply the best made affordable diver that I could find. I never quite understood why, I still felt that it was an aspirational watch company. For a time, Raymond Weil went out of fashion as a brand/etablisseur/caser. I had previously owned one - a Parsifal 2841 ST 00608 - from which I traded up and ever since regretted. I am of an age, 51, when Raymond Weil was the watch to own when I was just graduating from law school. Why did I buy this watch: Most purchases of this type are subjective and emotion driven. For review is the Raymond Weil Blue Freelancer Diver on a Bracelet, 276, which I have recently purchased: