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Product Description

The Hampton watch from Rip Curl features four movements with mother of pearl subdials. The Subdials include a 24 hour clock (for dual time), a day dial, and a date dial. A 100% marine grade stainless steel case and band, hardened mineral crystal face, and bezel complete the package. Tested to 100m depth.

List Price:	$225.00
Price:	$224.95
as of Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:41:54 GMT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39589 in Watches
• Brand: Rip Curl
• Model: A2271G-WHI
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: white
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Heat bezel: A countdown timer on an analogue watch. Keeps track of time for anything from surf heats to the time left on your parking meter.
• Chronograph sub-dials with day of week and date of month
• Dual Time
• Mother of pearl Sub-dials
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com
The Rip Curl Women's Hampton White Stainless Steel Watch #A2271G-WHI is fashionable both on and off the beach. To ensure maximum performance in the water, the Hampton comes with a band and case made of 316L stainless steel, the highest grade of stainless steel for water resistance, strength, and non-corrosion in a marine environment. The Hampton comes with surf-oriented features, like a rotating bezel that keeps track of time for anything from surf heats to beach sprints. But this watch isn't only about performance in the water. The Hampton's attractive subdials at the three, six, and nine o'clock positions help keep tabs on the date, day of the week, and 12 and 24 hour time. This watch is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). Other standard features include at attractive mother-of-pearl dial and Arabic hour markers.

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.
And it is into this environment that Doug “Claw” Warbrick and Brian “Sing Ding” 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 – 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...