Santurce El Tiburón: a Puerto Rican diver with its own identity

Santurce brings a strong Puerto Rican perspective to the familiar diving-watch formula. The El Tiburón, or The Shark, combines a saturated blue dial and bezel with large high-contrast markers and hands, creating a legible, energetic face rather than a generic vintage imitation.

The 39mm case is rated for 300 metres of water resistance, with a Swiss Sellita mechanical movement inside. The caseback features El Jíbaro Buzo, artwork by a local Puerto Rican artist, adding regional identity to an otherwise internationally recognizable tool-watch genre. It is precisely this mixture of practical engineering and distinct storytelling that makes microbrand collecting worthwhile.