{"id":27439,"date":"2016-02-12T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:13:50","slug":"highly-commended-sports-watches-of-the-year-seiko-marinemaster-1000m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/highly-commended-sports-watches-of-the-year-seiko-marinemaster-1000m\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLY COMMENDED: Sports Watches of the Year, Seiko Marinemaster 1000m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seiko may have made its first dedicated divers watch 50 years ago in 1965, but complaints from Japanese professional divers led to the formation of a special development team who were charged with creating the perfect watch for professional divers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1975 team leader Ikuo Tokunaga revealed his solution, a one-piece titanium case with a ceramic-coated titanium shroud that would later be dubbed the Seiko Tuna.<\/p>\n

Rather than include a helium escape value, he set out to create a case so tightly sealed that helium wouldn\u2019t be able to enter in the first place.<\/p>\n

The Seiko Marinemaster 1000m SBDX014 is the latest and greatest iteration of that concept designed to celebrate the 50-year anniversary.<\/p>\n

The inner case is formed from black-coated titanium while the outer shroud is ceramic as it was with the original Tuna, while the gold-coated accents are a tribute to the 1978 Golden Tuna. Inside the 52mm diver beats an automatic movement with 50-hour power reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seiko may have made its first dedicated divers watch 50 years ago in 1965, but complaints from Japanese professional divers led to the formation of a special development team who were charged with creating the perfect watch for professional divers. In 1975 team leader Ikuo Tokunaga revealed his solution, a one-piece titanium case with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7027],"tags":[7684,150,7685,7582,6611,47],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}