Old Style Elliptical Mask

[Nemrod]

Those are interesting but it seems several are not oval and the rest appear to be cheap and rather smallish.

The classic ovals made in the past were sized to fit a western adult and were available in blue, dark blue, yellow, orange and of course black. The ones I am familair with came from Voit, Sportsways, Dacor, USD and Healthways. I have a beautiful late 50s Healthways made in France. The band is chrome brass with a for real screw and is sized for a real adult and surprisingly low volume. I just do not see any REAL classic ovals being made today. Asian examples are small and stiff and don't fit well and the rest are either toyish or impossible to actually get a hand on, at least in the USA. Most of the new masks available in this market are stupid, over designed examples of faddishness and over marketing of non important features. In other words, they are mostly junk. N

 

[David Wilson]

I wonder what happened to all those expensive moulds that were used to create the quality oval masks of that era. Jetfins are still with us from the early 1960s because a critical mass of divers still want a classic design that doesn't need to be overengineered. It's a pity that the same thing hasn't happened in the case of the classic oval mask. The only ones I've found on the Web with the screw fitting are manufactured by the Sommap company of France, which also produces the NATO-approved Alcyon military fin:

http://www.sommap.com/upload/panama.jpg
http://www.sommap.com/upload/madera.jpg

I've managed to purchase Sommap products via their UK distributor.

Not an oval mask, but let's not forget the Cressi Pinocchio mask which was, according to

http://www.ancarola.ch/cressi.htm

created in 1954 and is still in production:

http://www.divingdirectshop.co.uk/p...d=468&osCsid=5b42fefb2d5fc25f96f65e4339e63a56