Fingers-On with the Dievas Maya MKIII

Dievas is a cult microbrand even to those that are followers of cult microbrands. Based in 2006, they’re one of many OG impartial software watch manufacturers. Following within the footsteps of Sinn, Damasko, UTS, Archimede, and others, Dievas’s focus is on tactical, trendy, overbuilt, high-spec sports activities watches which can be made in Germany. Nonetheless a uncommon origin of manufacture, Germany conjures a notion of precision, high quality, and worth that even perhaps surpasses Switzerland (particularly in worth). That is notably completely different as Dievas was created by the crew behind Gnomon Watches, a Singaporean retailer.

On the very finish of 2022, Dievas introduced a brand new mannequin, the Maya MKIII, after a number of years of being comparatively dormant (fashions have been on the market through Gnomon, however no new launches). Because the identify suggests, the brand new watch is the third iteration of the model’s widespread, tactical dive watch, the Maya. Redesigned from the bottom up, the MKIII is smaller, sleeker, and extra inexpensive, whereas sustaining some very spectacular specs and options.

Priced at $1,090 on a strap and $1,240 on a bracelet, the German-made Maya MKIII is offered in black, blue, and Sealab inexperienced. The latter, featured on this evaluate, just isn’t solely completely different in coloration however in dial and bezel insert design as properly, making it an outlier within the assortment.