Head to Head: Laco 1925 Squad Atacama “Ninja” Reference 861632 versus Arctos Elite GPW Military Titanium Automatic

The German makes a number of interesting military watches. Although there are a lot of interest generated towards the pilot watch genre, other branches of the German military since the turn of start of the 20th century has their own set of specifications peculiar to the respective branch of service. Since there are lots of published information about German pilot watches, I want to focus this article on just German infantry watches that I own.

In my collection I own the Laco 1925 Squad Atacama “Ninja”, a watch dedicated to urban police Special Forces unit, and the Arctos Elite GPW Military Titanium Automatic, a watch for the German infantryman and the German KRK (Crisis Reaction Forces) soldier. Below are pictures of the watches on my wrist plus key specifications for each of them.

Stainless steel, PVD 46 mm across (excluding the crown) & 13 mm thick. Lug width is 22 mm Swiss ETA 2824-2 automatic movement with 25 Jewels, approximately 42 hours of power reserve Date window, unidirectional bezel (countdown timer style) Rubber 500 meters	Titanium, brushed 42.5 mm across (excluding the crown) &11.7 mm thick. Lug width is 22 mm NH35A Japanese automatic movement with 24 jewels, approximately 41 hours of power reserve Date window, unidirectional bezel (diver style) Leather bund 200 meters

Head to Head: Omega Seamaster PloProf Reference 224.32.55.21.01.001 Versus The Oyster Perpetual Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller Reference M116660-0001

It is the clash of titans. This is how best to describe when this two giants from the houses of Omega and Rolex go head-to-head on a no-holds-barred comparative review. What is the prize? To be crowned as the better deep diver.