Clive Cussler
Novelist and shipwreck hunter, 1931–2020
One watch, on one documented occasion. More about Clive Cussler
Doxa
SUB 300 Professional
42.5 mm · €2,790
1968
On expeditionShipwreck hunts with NUMA, and every Dirk Pitt novel
From the late 1960s
A dive-shop owner gave Cussler an orange Doxa when he left to write full time. He wore it on his own wreck hunts and put it on Dirk Pitt's wrist in book after book, which is how a small Swiss brand acquired a cult.
On the wrist: An orange-dial SUB 300T
The date of the gift is Doxa's telling, given without a year; 'late 1960s' follows the SUB 300T's 1968 launch.
Partly documented· checked September 2026doxawatches.commonochrome-watches.comwornandwound.com
The watches above are the closest references in the bezelga catalogue, not the pieces that were on the wrist — those are named in each entry. Nothing here implies that Clive Cussler endorsed anything, and no photographs of anyone are reproduced: every page on bezelga uses our own drawings of the watches.