TideMaster.co.uk
Title
tidemaster watches
Description
Yachting Intruments came into being over 30 years ago when the present directors, as keen dinghy sailors, became increasingly frustrated with the lack of count-down watches. The choice was either a very costly Swiss made Chronograph needing an expensive annual service or a sports stopwatch with no water protection; if wetted a quick rinse in fresh water then a flush in paraffin (kerosene) and maybe it worked again!
Launched in the summer of 1972 the Yachting Chronograph, designed from scratch by the company, with a price of £9.95, sold in its thousands all around the world and became the badge of the small boat sailor.
Five years later at the International Boat Show, London, January 1975, the first Tidemaster watch was launched to become an essential tool for all sea sailors, sea anglers, wildfowlers, lifeboat crewman, ships' masters, Harbourmasters and Pilots. Another ten years on at the end of 1985 the balance wheel and hairspring was replaced as the regulator by a pulsing quartz to give a standard of time keeping previously undreamed of, of around a second a week, to produce the first Tidemaster Chronometer.
