Rip Curl Beirut Watch White

Ideal for surfers, scuba divers, and anybody enchanted by the sea, the ultra-lightweight Rip Curl Men’s Trestles Oceansearch Midnight White Tide Watch provides tough durability and impressive functionality. The sturdy black case is made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic, a strong, high-impact material that’s lightweight and compact. It surrounds a digital white dial, providing dual time display, a countdown timer, a stop watch, an alarm, a date window, and even a light so you may tell time in the dark. Impressively, the watch is pre-programmed with tide charts from 200 locatings around the world and features a patented automatic tide system that averages tide tables and may be effortlessly set to thousands of emplacements worldwide. That will come in handy on your next trip to the beach! The black polyurethane watch band is comfortable to wear and secured with a buckle clasp. Equipped with dependable quartz movement, the Rip Curl Men’s Trestles Oceansearch Midnight White Tide Watch is water immune to 330 feet (100 meters).

The Rip Curl Story

The year: 1969. A man called Armstrong is when it comes to 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 it is development. The “short board revolution” of 1967 has invented 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 outstanding leveller, has invented 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 started out to gravitate towards the evenly 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.
And it is into this surroundings that Doug “Claw” Warbrick and Brian “Sing Ding” Singer determine to pitch their fledgling surf company, Rip Curl. And yes, it will be called Rip Curl.

Rip Curl Surfboards did well in a highly competitory 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 a lot of cases a lively interest and innovation overshadowed technical expertness and quality, but Rip Curl concentrated on manufacturing a little number of functional surfcraft for local waves.

In 1970, however, Warbrick and Singer made the decision which changes eternally the nature of their fledgling company. Looking at the necessary needs of their fellow surfers in cold-water Victoria, they see that one – a board to ride – is being serviced by too galore companies, while the other – a wetsuit to keep out the cold – is being serviced by only two, one of whom makes wetsuits for divers and has only a marginal mercantile interest in surfing.

Rip Curl took over an old house in Torquay and the collaborators made a little 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 today’s standards, the prototype Rip Curl wetsuits were primitive, but they differed from others on the market in that they evolved through fundamental interaction with surfers.

The people who ran the company were – and still are – the test pilots. There may be no more direct line of communication…