Limes Endurance watches

Limes Endurance is the dive-watch collection of Limes, the brand of Ickler GmbH, the Pforzheim family company Karl Ickler founded in 1924. Limes rates its Endurance divers between 30 and 100 ATM. The divers have steel cases, sapphire crystals and rotating 60-minute bezels.

The 1Tausend Automatic is a 41.8 mm steel diver, 12.3 mm thick, with black, blue, orange or yellow dials, on leather or a steel bracelet. The U8787SW versions add a PVD coating to the case; the U8787B suffix marks the bracelet versions. The Neptun1 and Neptun2 (U8777) are slightly smaller at 41.2 mm, both with black dials. Limes' current Neptun K (U8778), a 41.5 mm watch rated to 100 ATM, has a screw-down crown, a solid screwed caseback, screwed lug bars and a Sellita SW 200-1 automatic movement.

The Leviathan (U8887) is 44.5 mm across and 49 mm with the crown, in an Ickler dive case of brushed steel water resistant to 30 ATM. It has a black dial with large luminous markers, a unidirectional bezel with a luminous pip, the Sellita SW 200-1 automatic inside, and it takes a 22 mm strap.

Two models step away from the plain diver. The Endurance Chrono (U8797) puts a chronograph into a 41.2 mm case under the same rotating bezel; it is 15.5 mm thick and comes with black or orange dials. The Endurance Rallye (U4515) swaps the dive bezel for a tachymeter in a 40 mm case and comes on a leather strap or on rallye straps in black and red or black and white.