| List Price: | $110.00 |
| Price: | $93.00 |
| as of Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:30:26 GMT | |
Product Description
Strap on the Rip Curl WomenAAAs Linden Watch before you go to the mall, so you can keep track of your hourly cash spending. The tough stainless steel housing holds up to old ladies elbowing you at a huge shoe sale, and the date display bubble helps you plan for the next big clearance event. The sleek, numberless face and leather (or steel chain) strap provide a classy look while you swipe your plastic and come dangerously close to overdrafting. If you grab the last pair of discounted heels out of another shopperAAAs hands, the 100m water-resistant Linden keeps working when she pushes you in the fountain next to the food court.
Product Features
- Housing Material: 316L stainless steel
- Strap Material: (white/black strap) leather, (white/leather strap) leather, (white/steel strap) 316 L stainless steel
- Heart Rate Monitor:
- Digital Compass:
- Chronograph: no
- Backlight: no
- Computer Compatible:
- Water-Resistant: yes, 100m
- Alarms:
- Weekday Indicator:
- Battery Type:
- Battery Life:
- Face Size: medium
- Weight:
- Recommended Use: casual
- Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #25411 in Watches
- Size: One Size
- Color: White/Black
- Brand: Rip Curl
- Model: A2381G-WBL
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Band material: leather-pig-skin
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Clasp type: Buckle
- Dial color: white
- Dial window material: Mineral
- Movement type: Japanese-Quartz
- Water-resistant to 330 feet
Features
- 316L stainless steel case: the highest grade of stainless steel for water resistance, strength and non-corrosion in a marine environment
- Every Rip Curl watch is individually tested for water resistance
- Genuine leather strap
- Case diameter: 38 mm
- Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)
Amazon.com
A simple yet elegant timepiece for the modern woman, the Rip Curl Women's Linden White and Black Leather Watch offers a circular white dial with slim, gold-toned bar-shaped hour indexes, gold-toned hands, a minute track around the perimeter, and a date display at the six o'clock position. The stainless steel case is 316L grade for ultimate durability and non-corrosiveness in marine environments. Made from textured leather, the black watch strap is secured with a buckle clasp. A mineral crystal window provides scratch resistance, and the watch is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). Plus, it's equipped with reliable Japanese quartz movement for accurate timekeeping.
The Rip Curl Story
The year: 1969. A man called Armstrong is about 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 its development. The “short board revolution” of 1967 has created 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 great leveller, has created 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 begun to gravitate towards the equally 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.
Rip Curl Surfboards did well in a highly competitive 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 many cases enthusiasm and innovation overshadowed technical expertise and quality, but Rip Curl concentrated on producing a small number of functional surfcraft for local waves.
In 1970, however, Warbrick and Singer made the decision which changes forever the nature of their fledgling company. Looking at the essential needs of their fellow surfers in cold-water Victoria, they see that one – a board to ride – is being serviced by too many 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 commercial interest in surfing.
Rip Curl took over an old house in Torquay and the partners made a small 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 interaction with surfers.
The people who ran the company were – and still are – the test pilots. There can be no more direct line of communication...
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