Manufacturer: TSAO Baltimore | Price: $350 USD (£265 GBP, €305 EUR (approx))
I originally heard of TSAO Baltimore back in 2018, 12 months after they were founded. Their first watch, I’m led to believe, was their Founders Edition dress style watch and very nice it looks too. I’ve tried to buy one a while ago, but that fell through, TSAO Baltimore are also totally sold out on their website. I’ve additionally been trying to find one on the used market, but they are as rare as rocking horse shit💩. Alan, if you’re reading this… search your stock for me please!
Anyway, fast forward a good few months, I actually backed their campaign in 2019 for the hugely popular Torsk diver and some time later in the year it arrived. However, as things go, I didn’t even get the chance to review or even wear the bloody thing, as my father in-law, who is also a complete watch fanatic, fell in love with it and wouldn’t stop banging on about it. So, me being the big softy that I am, I gave it to him as a present last year. To say that he loves it, is a total understatement. He still wears it today with his other watches doing nothing but collect dust in his watch box.
Anyway, enough of me bumping my gums. My history of TSAO Baltimore brings us to the present day… and when I heard that they were releasing a “chrono-diver”, I reached out to Alan Tsao (the company founder) immediately, to see if he would kindly send me a review sample. Not only did Alan oblige, he sent me the “panda”, my preferred choice! 👌