As Abingdon celebrates fourteen years since it started offering adventure watches specifically targeted to women, the Las Vegas watch company adds three models to its tactical watch collection (called Jane) and adds a new model to its dive watch collection, Nadia.
Both collections are the brand’s first watches fit with a bi-directional compass and ruler built into the back of the watch. The new models are 35mm steel-cased watches with 200 meters of water resistance, an impressive and rarely seen specification for a watch this size.
Jane
The new Jane watch, built with an Ameriquartz quartz caliber by Arizona-based movement maker FTS, is the result of three years of testing, according to Abingdon, which explains that it wanted to create the “best tactical watch offered for women.”
Jane combines a brushed 316L stainless steel case and screw-down crowns with a hardened sapphire crystal, with military time conversion, standard and metric rulers, a bi-directional compass, glow-in-the-dark dial markings, day and date display, a diver’s bezel, and its Ameriquartz Caliber 7122 quartz movement.
Look for new Jane models called Covert (black dial), Mission (red dial) and Outlaw (black dial with bronze-colored case).
Nadia
Abingdon originally launched its Nadia dive watch in 2019 and now adds the Nadia Black Abyss, a black and pink version, which joins the original white and blue Whitewater model. Abingdon tests all its dive watches on the wrists of inductees of the Women Diver’s Hall of Fame.
The 35mm steel watch is powered by a Seiko TMI NH06 automatic movement, which delivers more than forty hours of power reserve. Two screw-down crowns, which control the time function and a bi-directional compass, ensure that the Black Abyss maintains its water resistance. Abingdon has added an elongated 16mm silicone strap built to fit over wet suits and certain thicker dry suits.
Prices: $629 (Jane) and $829 (Nadia).
