Product Description
Powered by the motion of your wrist, the Detroit Automatic is the latest addition to the bold and stylish line-up of Rip Curl Detroit watches. A hard-to-miss 50mm stainless steel case houses a Japanese automatic movement that's visible through a skeleton sunray dial and windowed screw in-case back.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #25342 in Watches
- Brand: Rip Curl
- Model: A2405-BLK
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Band material: stainless-steel
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
- Dial color: black
- Dial window material: Mineral
- Movement type: Japanese Automatic
- Water-resistant to 330 feet
Features
- 21 jewel self-winding Japanese movement
- 316L marine grade stainless steel case and strap
- Bold oversized 50mm case
- Windowed case back displays Automatic movement
- Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)
The Rip Curl Story
The year: 1969. A man called Armstrong is about to walk on the moon.
(In fact, the day he does so, Bells Beach is ten foot and near perfect. Two Torquay locals, Charlie Bartlett and Brian Singer, surf their brains out before going home to watch the other momentous event on black and white TV.)
In Australia, surfing is at a curious stage of its development. The ΓÇ£short board revolutionΓÇ¥ of 1967 has created a frenzy of experimentation in surfboard design and surfing technique.
In the cool climate of Victoria, sanity prevails in design and technique, if not in the temperaments of the surfers. The cold, always a great leveller, has created a hardy breed of surfer who has no time for the hoopla and hype of the glitter beach capitals of the world. And by 1969 these like-minded souls have begun to gravitate towards the equally no-frills seaside town of Torquay, just a couple of kilometers away from Bells Beach, home of some of the most challenging waves in Australia.
Rip Curl Surfboards did well in a highly competitive market which had opened up in response to the revolution in design. Pioneers like Gordon Woods and Barry Bennett in Sydney and George Rice in Victoria had been joined by hundreds of wide-eyed hopefuls operating, like Rip Curl, out of garages and tool sheds.
In many cases enthusiasm and innovation overshadowed technical expertise and quality, but Rip Curl concentrated on producing a small number of functional surfcraft for local waves.
In 1970, however, Warbrick and Singer made the decision which changes forever the nature of their fledgling company. Looking at the essential needs of their fellow surfers in cold-water Victoria, they see that one ΓÇô a board to ride ΓÇô is being serviced by too many companies, while the other ΓÇô a wetsuit to keep out the cold ΓÇô is being serviced by only two, one of whom makes wetsuits for divers and has only a marginal commercial interest in surfing.
Rip Curl took over an old house in Torquay and the partners made a small investment in a pre-World War II sewing machine. They put together a crew of locals and went into production, cutting out the rubber on the floor and handing the pieces to an over-worked and underpaid machinist.
By todayΓÇÖs standards, the prototype Rip Curl wetsuits were primitive, but they differed from others on the market in that they evolved through interaction with surfers.
The people who ran the company were ΓÇô and still are ΓÇô the test pilots. There can be no more direct line of communication...
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