Explore Proxima

Proxima’s watches speak a familiar dialect: rotating bezels, substantial hands, and cases that borrow freely from established dive-watch designs. The Chinese brand, founded in 2016, has built its range around mechanical tool watches, with a unicorn emblem adding an unexpected signature to many of its dials. It’s a small flourish amid otherwise purposeful hardware.

The PX1697 is a useful starting point. Its compact case combines brushed surfaces with polished curves, giving it a lighter visual touch than Proxima’s chunkier divers. White-dial versions pair a clean face with a dark bezel, letting the contrasting shapes do most of the work. Movement options have included the Chinese PT5000 and Swiss SW200, both offering a brisk 28,800-beat-per-hour sweep.

Elsewhere, Seiko-influenced divers reveal the brand’s more muscular side: broad bezels, stout lugs, and large luminous markers. Models using the NH35 follow a familiar Japanese mechanical recipe. Sapphire crystals and ceramic bezel inserts recur across the range, while dial colors shift the mood from restrained black to considerably brighter territory.