Product Description
? Case: 100% Marine Grade Stainless steel case, multi sealed crown, heat bezel timer and hardened mineral crystal. ? Function: Time and date. Jewelled movement. ? Strap: 100% Marine Grade Stainless Steel strap with double lock clasp. ? Dial: Sunray ? Water resistant, tested: 100m.
| List Price: | $180.00 |
| Price: | $179.00 |
| as of Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:36:24 GMT | |
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #73164 in Watches
- Brand: Rip Curl
- Model: A2195-SIL
- Band material: stainless-steel
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
- Dial color: silver
- Movement type: Quartz
- Water-resistant to 330 feet
Features
- Heat bezel: A countdown timer on an analogue watch. Keeps track of time for anything from surf heats to the time left on your parking meter.
- Date function at 4:00 position
- jeweled Movements: Synthetic rubies which serve as bearings for gears in watches. This reduces torque and friction allowing your watch to run more accurately for longer.
- 316L stainless steel case and band: The highest grade of stainless steel for water resistance, strength and non-corrosion in a marine environment.
- Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)
Amazon.com
The Rip Curl Men's Boost Stainless Steel Silver Watch is a handsome timepiece made from high-quality materials. The circular silver dial displays easy-to-read, Arabic numeral hour indexes at three, six, nine, and 12 o'clock along with a discreet date display at the four o'clock position. A stainless steel diving bezel features a handy countdown timer. Rugged and durable for daily wear, the 316L stainless steel case and watch band are made from the highest grade of steel possible and offer ultimate strength and non-corrosiveness in marine environments. For added security, the watch band offers a push-button, fold-over clasp. The Rip Curl Men's Boost Stainless Steel Silver Watch features synthetic rubies as gear bearings, which reduces torque and friction and allows your watch to run accurately for longer periods of time. It's also equipped with precise quartz movement and is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters).
The Rip Curl Story
The year: 1969. A man called Armstrong is about to walk on the moon.
(In fact, the day he does so, Bells Beach is ten foot and near perfect. Two Torquay locals, Charlie Bartlett and Brian Singer, surf their brains out before going home to watch the other momentous event on black and white TV.)
In Australia, surfing is at a curious stage of its development. The ΓÇ£short board revolutionΓÇ¥ of 1967 has created a frenzy of experimentation in surfboard design and surfing technique.
In the cool climate of Victoria, sanity prevails in design and technique, if not in the temperaments of the surfers. The cold, always a great leveller, has created a hardy breed of surfer who has no time for the hoopla and hype of the glitter beach capitals of the world. And by 1969 these like-minded souls have begun to gravitate towards the equally no-frills seaside town of Torquay, just a couple of kilometers away from Bells Beach, home of some of the most challenging waves in Australia.
Rip Curl Surfboards did well in a highly competitive market which had opened up in response to the revolution in design. Pioneers like Gordon Woods and Barry Bennett in Sydney and George Rice in Victoria had been joined by hundreds of wide-eyed hopefuls operating, like Rip Curl, out of garages and tool sheds.
In many cases enthusiasm and innovation overshadowed technical expertise and quality, but Rip Curl concentrated on producing a small number of functional surfcraft for local waves.
In 1970, however, Warbrick and Singer made the decision which changes forever the nature of their fledgling company. Looking at the essential needs of their fellow surfers in cold-water Victoria, they see that one ΓÇô a board to ride ΓÇô is being serviced by too many companies, while the other ΓÇô a wetsuit to keep out the cold ΓÇô is being serviced by only two, one of whom makes wetsuits for divers and has only a marginal commercial interest in surfing.
Rip Curl took over an old house in Torquay and the partners made a small investment in a pre-World War II sewing machine. They put together a crew of locals and went into production, cutting out the rubber on the floor and handing the pieces to an over-worked and underpaid machinist.
By todayΓÇÖs standards, the prototype Rip Curl wetsuits were primitive, but they differed from others on the market in that they evolved through interaction with surfers.
The people who ran the company were ΓÇô and still are ΓÇô the test pilots. There can be no more direct line of communication...
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