In the 1970s, when I was a young boy, my father and I went diving almost every day during the summer months. It seemed to me that summer days were full of adventure, camping and diving trips in the archipelago sea.

Diving trips were taken in all weathers. For a young boy, sometimes it was scary at times, but my father’s steady work pushed fear aside even in the worst weather. Afterwards many of the adventures seemed crazy, but still my childhood has left me with wonderful and fond memories. The sea will always be close to my heart, just as it was to my father’s.  Later, as an adult, my father and I talked a lot about diving in those days and the trips we took.

My father was an avid scuba diving enthusiast. He was also a professional diver, doing underwater welding and other demanding underwater projects as a side job. As a young adult, I realized that the time I spent with my dad back then was a real source of inspiration.

As a child, I followed very closely everything my father did during diving trips. I explored my father’s diving equipment and tried to figure out how it worked. My father’s diving equipment bag contained very high quality technology of the time, which a young boy could not help but explore. When diving, equipment and devices must be reliable. At that time, equipment was technology without processors but very responsibly manufactured and extremely durable. Diving equipment have developed enormously since then, now they include smart technology and precautionary systems.

The conditions were often very harsh. Diving safety must be strictly observed and unnecessary risks that could endanger your or other divers safety must be avoided. The dive teams I met clearly respected safety more than anything else. That is something that has remained indelibly etched in my memory.

One piece of diving equipment was my father’s diving watch (Citizen B52806). It was always in my little hands between the surface times of my father’s dives and after the dives. I also wore that watch on my wrist a few times on my own dives. My father’s diving watch was a treasured possession for me even then and always will be. Later, I realized that this was definitely the moment when my interest in watches began. My father’s watch has been with me on many occasions since his active diving career. A good friend of ours wrote a memorable article about this watch and the time around it.

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私の最初のダイビングスーツ、モデル1977-テストダイビングの準備。父は私に彼のものとほとんど同じようなダイビングナイフをくれましたが、これは完全に木でできていました。

父のSeppoPrepulaは、1971年にマリハムンでのダイビングの準備をしています

新しい冒険に向けて1977

From dream to diving watch

I have been a watch enthusiast since my youth. The idea and dream of creating my own watch collection was born a long time ago. The progression of an idea from a dream to a product required the right moment and the opportunity to make it happen. Eventually, there came a time in my life when I was able to design and build my own watch model.

I wanted my first watch to look like a classic 70’s diving watch, both in size and colour. I wanted to update the watch to today’s technical standards and precise quality. That’s why I chose the best materials and the most respected components to take the watch from everyday use to diving and other active life activities. In addition to functionality, I wanted to create an original look that I could be proud of.

The inspiration for the watches comes from the era of divers and dive trips – a time when technology had not yet greatly influenced the joy of discovery and exploration – a time when it took a lot of effort, background research and perseverance to do underwater work without modern digital equipment.

I am privileged to live in the present day of the diving hobby, when technology recognises underwater adventure better than ever before. I also feel privileged to leave something for future generations. At least the great sense of adventure that has inspired me since I was a little boy, looking to the horizon and wondering how to be a brave diver in the depths of the sea.

Adventures in the unique Finnish nature

These watches are inspired by the joy of diving, the adventure in Finnish nature and the love of my family that I experienced as a child in the 70s. My father and I made several diving trips around the Lyökin Pooki lighthouse area. Pookwatches seemed an obvious name for the watches. The ideas for Pook watches were born from stories that touched me. I hope you enjoy the spirit I have conveyed through our watches.

Our ideology is summed up very well in the words later found in a notebook on my father’s desk “things don’t have to be wonderful, practicality is enough”. Personally, I interpret it as an avoidance of the perceived unnecessary, which is also conveyed as a sense of responsibility and a return to the basics.

All the pictures on this website are taken by my father, whom I admire, love and respect very much. Lyökki & Mariehamn, Finland, 1969-1980

In memory of my beloved father – C. Andreas Prepula