Project KRONOS review
This is the S302, from the Supermarine range from Bremont. Here I have it on a blue leather to match the colours on the dial. Despite being small-ish at 40mm, it is very comfortable on my wrist and also looks amazing.
The S302 is also properly dive worthy (although I'd swap out the leather for the rubber) with a 300m WR, accompanied with a lovely ceramic bezel and 'world ready' with a GMT hand. I love the doomed-slightly retro look from the sapphire crystal and the simplicity of the indices on the dial and a singular chubby crown ticks my box here.
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted that this isn't a retail model, its a special edition project that I led from inception > delivery. It marks a special moment in my career, it makes me feel proud when I wear it and I love it. There are ~54 pieces of this watch, spread across the globe. The difference being that some opted for a NATO (only terrible humans wear NATO straps), metal bracelet. Being a greedy bitch I opted for rubber and leather.
I get pretty tired of others inane chat about Bremont's in house movement, but nonetheless this offering does NOT contain the EQ300 movement. To be clear, I'm not even entirely clear what movement is in this watch; I wouldn't be able to name the movement if asked...as it doesn't really matter all that much to me. It will be their standard offering of something highly modified. Meh.
As ever, the Bremont buying / customer service experience is sublime and puts all others to shame by comparison; which is probably a contributing factor to this being my third Bremont.
Whether or not I'd use this watch for going diving is fairly insignificant, it will be used as my daily office watch.
Project KRONOS review
Yes
No
- Ceramic bezel
- Proper dive watch
- Strap monster
- GMT hand
- Takes a few mins to change a strap
- Maybe 41mm+ would have been better
- Crown has a black coloured ring, my OCD wants a blue ring
Very nice!
I think that is a very fine watch indeed
You can call the chat about Bremont’s attempt to lie to its consumer base “inane” if you want, but they still attempted to lie and pass off an off the shelf LJP movement as in-house. I have zero respect for Bremont and will not buy one of their watches.
This watch is probably using a decorated Sellita SW330 and is probably a caller’s GMT, all for the low, low price….
I’m sorry, I just can’t.