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Benarus watches in titanium, bronze and brass

The Titanium Field Guide lists 8 Benarus watches, from $349 to $1,199. Three of them are titanium, the rest bronze and brass. Every entry is verified for its case material, and each one cites its source alongside the date it was last checked.

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Benarus Megalodon BronzeImage: Benarus
Origin
Hong Kong
References
8 3 titanium
Price range
from $349 to $1,199
Most affordable
Moray 40 Brass $349
Lightest
Moray 38 Bronze 94 g
Most recent addition
Mako ETA Bronze

Benarus says it was founded in Germany in 2008 to make dive watches in small runs, and it now ships everything from Hong Kong; aBlogtoWatch, reviewing the Moray 42 in 2013, described it as based partly in Kansas, with a loyal following built on the watch forums. The maker's history starts with the Barracuda of 2008, a hundred pieces on a Miyota 8215, and follows the Moray, an Italian-style diver that aBlogtoWatch set beside Panerai and Anonimo, through case sizes from 40 to 47 mm in steel, bronze, titanium and brass. The Megalodon arrived in 2009 as a 47 mm case rated to 2,500 m, and it is the model that still carries titanium, with a titanium bezel around a sapphire insert and a titanium bracelet that closes on a steel clasp. Benarus states no titanium grade, and its current bronze pages say only bronze. The CuSn8 alloy is named in The Time Bum's 2015 preview of the bronze Megalodon, which paired that case with a titanium caseback.

Written 10 October 2026 from Benarus's About page, Benarus's previous models page, Benarus's Megalodon Titanium page, Benarus's Moray 38 bronze page, aBlogtoWatch's review of the Moray 42 and The Time Bum's preview of the Megalodon.

What the catalog shows about Benarus

The range is narrow: 100 percent of what the guide holds from it is dive watches. It publishes a case weight for 63 percent of its references, against 31 percent across the catalog, which is unusually open given that weight is the spec makers disclose least. It states a standard alloy grade on none of its titanium references, against 45 percent across the catalog, so the alloy behind its titanium is rarely if ever named. All of its references here are mechanical.

Derived from the 8 references below, recomputed on every update, and printed only where a measurement stands apart from the rest of the catalog.

8 references