NEW; DOXA Dive Watch Collection – Meet the SUB 200T!

Ahead of Watches and Wonders 2024, dive watch specialist DOXA launches a total of 26 options in its new SUB 200T series across 8 stunning dial colours. What’s your flavour?

If you like sporty and colourful you can join the DOXA club with me. I’ve always loved the brand and its daring, high-quality Swiss dive watches, which have been on the scene since the 1960s. The brand is much older than that, though. It was founded in 1889. Based in Le Locle, Georges Ducommun spent many of the early years focussing on pocket watches, so when you compare that fact with the edgy, dynamic dive watch designs that now dominate the manufacturer’s portfolio - it’s almost hard to imagine! In fact, up until the 1960s, DOXA was developing pretty elegant dress watches.

To create the SUB 300T in 1967 (one of the brand’s most successful designs), the company actually partnered with Rolex. It would make history, being the first dive watch to feature a helium escape valve, and was developed in collaboration with Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Interestingly, many features of the design have survived the test of time and still feature in new models launched by the brand today. Some examples include the brand’s signature orange dial and its cushion-shaped case.

One other feature I love about DOXA’s manufacture is its beads-of-rice bracelet. It gives some models a truly retro-diver seasoning. The brand’s dive watches are also fitted with a patented diving bezel featuring a special table that can be used to calculate how deep a diver can go underwater before needing to add another decompression stop to his journey. Since the company was acquired by Romeo F. Jenny in 1997 more colourful varieties have been released into the brand’s popular collections. Then, in 2016, the Shark Ceramica arrived with an eye-catching wave-inspired dial pattern and, of course, a ceramic bezel to aid scratch resistance.

The DOXA SUB Categories

There are five categories under the DOXA SUB genre. These are the 200, the 200 T.Graph, the 300T, 1500T and 4000T. These dive watches, regardless of their water-resistant capabilities, are known for their broad range of enticing colours. The entry-level dive watch from DOXA is the 200. The series, which pays homage to the 11804 Sharkhunter from the 1960s, is perfect for beginners with its 200-meter water-resistant stainless steel cases and 42mm diameters. Interestingly, the bezel is only 40mm, since the case is wider than the bezel itself. The watch also boasts relatively short lugs and features central hours, minutes and seconds, along with a date display at 3 o’clock.

The SUB 200T

Unlike the entry-level DOXA 200 watch series, the SUB 200T answers to the needs of those who felt the 300 and 300T models were too big and had longed for a newer re-interpretation of the cushion-shaped profile. Just in time for Watches and Wonders 2024, DOXA has revealed the new collection, which comes in a range of 26 different references across a total of 8 different dial colours. You can also opt between a traditional dial finish and a sunray finish depending on your preference. The models now have the distinctive cushion-shaped case profile that DOXA fans love but are offered in a much more compact size. Even the entry-level SUB 200 watches were a confident 42mm. This series, however, is a nice and compact 39mm size for those who desire DOXA’s signature aesthetic, but in a more manageable slender wrist-friendly size. The height of each case stands at 10.7mm with a lug-to-lug profile of 41.5mm.

These manageable proportions are paired with a flat sapphire crystal glass front, as opposed to the box-shaped crystal of the SUB 300. The glass is still treated with anti-reflective properties to ensure you get a good clean glance into the surface of the dial whether caught under direct sunlight or artificial lighting. The glass is surrounded by DOXA’s unidirectional rotating bezel, equipped with the famous no-decompression limit scale. If you look towards the right-hand side of the case, the signed screw-down crown is situated at 3 o’clock, partly recessed and adorned with the DOXA fish in the same matching colour as the dial. On the reverse of the case is a solid screw-down stainless steel caseback. The new DOXA SUB 200T watches also feature the helium escape valve seen on the SUB 300T series. As their name would suggest, these models are equipped with a water-resistant rating of 200 meters, so they’re still perfectly suitable for snorkelling, swimming and water sports. 

The thing that I love most about what DOXA has done here, is that instead of drip-feeding us the new colours over a period of months or, indeed, the course of the entire year - the brand has treated us to a full range of colours from the get-go. The vast assortment of options includes Professional Orange, Searambler Silver, Sharkhunter Black, Caribbean Navy, Divingstar Yellow, Aquamarine Turquoise, and Whitepearl White. The most intriguing of all, however, is an entirely new colour - the Sea Emerald Green. Its gold-finished elements and ocean green-inspired hue are a match made in heaven, nodding to a resolutely luxurious, high-end take on the dive watch series.

Now with this more refined option, you could literally have a colour for every day of the week, plus a shade for all seasons, and an option for dressier occasions too. What makes these pickings even more interesting, is the fact that you can also choose between different dial finishes. The brand’s traditional matte dial finish is available, which DOXA refers to as the “Iconic” style, then there is the sunray finish, which can be enjoyed in two models only –  the Searambler Silver and Sea Emerald Green. The Whitepearl White is the only model to be made exclusively available in the matte finish.

Overall, I love the inherently elevated appearance of the Emerald Sea Green SUB 200T watch by DOXA (although all models get my approval). It’s great that the manufacturer is listening to what its audience wants and needs. A more compact version of the iconic SUB 300 and SUB 300T is what fans have wanted for some time, and now with so many dial options to choose from, there is certainly an option for every mood, season and wardrobe.

Buy the New DOXA SUB 200T Watches at Jura Watches Today

If you’d like to place an order for any one of the new DOXA SUB 200T watches, you can call and speak to a member of our Jura Watches sales team today at 01335 453453 or email us at help@jurawtches.co.uk.