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Squale

Handcrafted Swiss made dive watches since 1950. Known by the classic curved shark logo, Squale is still a small family-run business now based in Milan, Italy with all watch production and assembly done by hand utilising master-watchmakers in Grenchen, Switzerland maintaining the same high standards as the vintage models. Squale - reliable , superbly designed and elegant professional dive watches for users with the highest demands.

Squale watches are built utilizing the great Swiss tradition of precision watch making, combined with solidity and durability. As tradition demands, the case is made throughout from Swiss 316L steel. And the components are all Swiss too: winders, winder sleeves and gaskets. These are essential parts for a watch that has to withstand high pressures and salt water.

Watches are painstakingly assembled by master Swiss watchmakers, taking the greatest care over the fitting of the gaskets and ensuring that the case is airtight. The watches then undergo strict checks, with regard to both resistance to water and timekeeping accuracy. Quality tests are performed on every single watch and not on a sampling basis.

In 1946 Charles von Büren founded "von Büren S.A. / Montres" on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, in the watchmaking heart of Switzerland. Shortly after, "von Büren S.A. / Montres" created the Squale brand (Squale translates to Shark) with it's classic curved shark logo which is now synonymous for Swiss Made professional diving watches.

Back in 1946 "von Büren S.A / Montres" started to produce watch cases and components for different larger and smaller swiss watchbrands who didn`t have the knowledge to build professional diving watches. The smaller brands used the Squale logo on their dial as a quality symbol. The bigger watch brands included Blancpain (the Fifty Fathoms) and DOXA (the SUB) as well as TAG Heuer.

Due to the success other Swiss watch brands had with the Squale produced and co-labelled watches, "von Büren S.A./ Montres " started in 1950 to produce their own range of professional diving watches under the Squale brandname marking the beginning of the brands institutional history.