Deep dive

Turns out that bigger isn't always better, with diving watches now available in much more compact sizes

- WORDS: RICHARD HOLT

THE 1950S WAS QUITE A DECADE. There was plenty to worry about, like the Suez crisis, Korean war and the threat of nuclear apocalypse. But the postwar tech boom also brought passenger jets, power steering and the Citroen DS. And it was the decade that the world fell in love with scuba diving.

French adventurer Jacques Cousteau — whose book and Oscar winning film