Great buy Rip Curl Women's A2394G-GOL Catalina Gold and White Stainless Steel Watch

Great buy Rip Curl Women's A2394G-GOL Catalina Gold and White Stainless Steel Watch

Product Description

The Rip Curl Women's Catalina Gold and White Stainless Steel Watch features a square-shaped, white dial with gold-toned, stick-shaped hour indexes at three, six, nine, and 12 o'clock along with gold-toned hour and minute hands. A white, outer perimeter is printed with additional hour indexes for added depth. The 316L grade stainless steel case offers strength and non-corrosiveness in marine environments -- plus, the watch is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). Made from the same high-grade stainless steel, the mesh-like, gold-toned bracelet is lightweight, comfortable and is secured with a buckle. The watch offers accurate quartz movement for long-lasting, reliable timekeeping.

Price:	$130.00 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
as of Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:22:57 GMT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49862 in Watches
• Brand: Rip Curl
• Model: A2394G-GOL
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: white
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• 316L stainless steel case and band: 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
• Printed crystal adds depth and detail
• Case diameter: 28 mm
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

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The Rip Curl Women's Catalina Gold and White Stainless Steel Watch features a square-shaped, white dial with gold-toned, stick-shaped hour indexes at three, six, nine, and 12 o'clock along with gold-toned hour and minute hands. A white, outer perimeter is printed with additional hour indexes for added depth. The 316L grade stainless steel case offers strength and non-corrosiveness in marine environments -- plus, the watch is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). Made from the same high-grade stainless steel, the mesh-like, gold-toned bracelet is lightweight, comfortable and is secured with a buckle. The watch offers accurate quartz movement for long-lasting, reliable 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 ΓÇ£short board revolutionΓÇ¥ 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.
And it is into this environment that Doug ΓÇ£ClawΓÇ¥ Warbrick and Brian ΓÇ£Sing DingΓÇ¥ Singer decide to pitch their fledgling surf company, Rip Curl. And yes, it will be called Rip Curl.

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 ΓÇô a board to ride ΓÇô is being serviced by too many companies, while the other ΓÇô a wetsuit to keep out the cold ΓÇô 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 todayΓÇÖs 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 ΓÇô and still are ΓÇô the test pilots. There can be no more direct line of communication...