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DECOMPRESSION 02 FIRST EDITION ORANGE

Swiss functionalism: design born from intelligent engineering.

Orange, the colour born for diving.

#divewatch #independentwatch #diving #buhlmannwatches #toolwatchfriday by @watchangels

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The most comprehensive pilot watch ever made, the @watchangels x @alpinawatches Startimer Pilot Chronograph IFR:

-> World-first mechanical aviation complication
-> Helps you fly
-> Holding pattern management
-> Column wheel chronograph
-> 24h/UTC second time zone
-> Limited Edition of 300 pieces

#pilotwatch #pilotlife #flying #watchfam #watchoftheday by @watchangels

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5 months ago

Swiss functionalism is design resulting from the intelligent engineering of real needs.

Design materializes from purpose.
Character emerges.

Bühlmann Decompression 02. Available @watchangels

#divewatch #divewatchporn #diving #buhlmannwatches #independentwatch by @watchangels

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6 days ago

ORANGE, WITH A REASON.

In the 1960s and 1970s, offshore exploration was moving into deeper waters. Divers working on oil and gas installations had to operate for long periods at depths where conventional diving techniques reached their limits.

This created a new challenge: how could humans live and work safely under extreme pressure and return safely to the surface?

Professor Albert A. Bühlmann’s research in Zurich was at the heart of answering that question. His work on breathing gases, saturation diving and decompression helped establish the scientific foundations needed for increasingly deep and prolonged underwater operations.

The Capshell experiments were part of this pioneering era of hyperbaric research. Divers lived and worked under simulated pressure, allowing Bühlmann and his team to study how the human body absorbed and released inert gases and to develop safer decompression procedures.

The Capshell chamber used for these experiments was painted a distinctive orange.

More than half a century later, that colour became the inspiration for the dial of the Bühlmann Decompression 02 First Edition Orange. Not a colour chosen from a palette.
A colour taken from our history.

From the pressure chamber to the wrist.

#divinglife #divelifestyle #diver #divewatch #buhlmannwatches by @watchangels

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21 days ago

500 METERS. ZURICH, 1981.

In 1981, a simulated dive to 500 meters was conducted in the pressure chamber of the University Hospital of Zurich as part of the pioneering work that pushed the understanding of human physiology, decompression and extreme depth further than ever before.

The original dive records shown here document that remarkable experiment: depth, gas mixtures, decompression stages and the names of the men who took part.

More than four decades later, that same spirit of Swiss research and uncompromising dive safety lives on in the Bühlmann Decompression 02.

PRESSURE CHANGES EVERYTHING.

#divewatch #diver #independentwatch #toolwatch #buhlmannwatches by @watchangels

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Presented at Geneva Watch Days 2026, the Alpina × Watch Angels Startimer Pilot Chronograph IFR brings together something we believe strongly in: real function and contemporary style. A pilot’s watch should do more than look like an instrument.

The IFR was designed around a real aviation function: helping pilots determine the correct holding-pattern entry: Direct, Teardrop or Parallel; simply and quickly. Two inputs: Heading + inbound course.

The watch translates them mechanically into the information needed to execute the entry without modifying the movement, but through an ingenious interaction between bezel and the turning rehaut. And yet, function does not have to look purely technical.

On the wrist, the IFR becomes something else too: a sophisticated Swiss mechanical chronograph that moves naturally from cockpit to everyday life.

Purpose shaped the watch. Style came with it.

Know your entry. Learn more at link in bio.

#pilotwatch #alpinawatches #pilotlifestyle #fliegeruhr #genevawatchdays by @watchangels

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A bubble is never just a bubble.

Underwater, pressure changes how gases behave.

Inside the human body, it changes how they are absorbed and how they must be released.

Understanding this invisible relationship between pressure, time and the human body became the life’s work of Prof. Albert A. Bühlmann.

His research helped generations of divers go deeper and return safely.

It is also the scientific heritage behind our watches.

PRESSURE CHANGES EVERYTHING

#pressurechangeseverything #diving #saturationdiving #technicaldiving #divewatch by @watchangels

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Bühlmann Decompression 02.

Born from Swiss decompression science.

Designed by intelligent engineering.

Swiss functionalism now in orange.

#divewatch #toolwatchfriday #divelifestyle #divesafety #watchcollector by @watchangels

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2 months ago

Pressure changes the conditions.
It tests decisions, preparation and character.

But some things are made to remain dependable when everything around them changes.

That is the Bühlmann way.

#pressurechangeseverything #buhlmannwatches #divewatch #divinglife by @watchangels

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2 months ago

WHY IS COMING UP MORE COMPLICATED THAN GOING DOWN?

Going down is relatively simple: pressure increases.

Coming back up is where things become complicated.

During a dive, increased pressure causes inert gases, principally nitrogen, to dissolve into the body's tissues. The deeper and longer the dive, the more gas can be absorbed.

During ascent, pressure decreases and that gas needs to leave the tissues again. If the change happens too quickly, bubbles can form in the body.

That is why decompression science is fundamentally about the journey back.

Going deep is one challenge.
Coming back safely is the science.

#PressureChangesEverything #bühlmannwatches #divewatch #diving #toolwatchfriday by @watchangels

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The most comprehensive pilot watch ever made, the @watchangels x @alpinawatches Startimer Pilot Chronograph IFR:

-> World-first mechanical aviation complication
-> Helps you fly
-> Holding pattern management
-> Column wheel chronograph
-> 24h/UTC second time zone
-> Limited Edition of 300 pieces

#pilotwatch #pilotlife #flying #watchfam #fliegerfriday by @watchangels

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2 months ago

Where diving science continues.

The legacy of Dr. Albert A. Bühlmann is not confined to history.

It lives on through the people and institutions that continue to advance diving science, improve diver safety and expand our understanding of decompression.

This is why our partnerships matter.

DAN Europe advances diver safety through research, education and prevention. By collecting and analysing diving data from around the world, it contributes to the development and validation of the next generation of decompression science.

EUBS50 – European Underwater and Baromedical Society brings together the world's leading researchers and physicians in diving and hyperbaric medicine, providing the scientific forum where new discoveries are shared, challenged and transformed into future knowledge.

CMAS Switzerland connects this scientific heritage with the diving community through education, training and responsible exploration, helping translate scientific knowledge into everyday diving practice.

At Bühlmann, our role is unique.

We preserve the legacy of Dr. Albert A. Bühlmann while translating today's and tomorrow's decompression science into horological mechanics.

Through Swiss watchmaking, we transform scientific principles into functional mechanical instruments, connecting one of diving's greatest scientific achievements with the divers of today and tomorrow.

These partnerships are not about sponsorship.

They are about ensuring that research continues, knowledge is shared, science reaches divers, and one of the greatest legacies in the history of diving continues to evolve.

Where diving science continues.

#diving # HyperbaricChamber #divewatch #tauchen #buhlmannwatches by @watchangels

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