PRINCETON TEC

Princeton Tec’s HQ is located in Pennsauken NJ, USA, where all of our lights are constructed from concept to completion. We also have a plastic injection molding facility and tool shop down the road in Berlin. This allows us to personally ensure paramount quality as we prioritize attention to detail during the entire manufacturing process right here at home.

Princeton Tec was founded by Bill Stephens and still, almost 50 years later, the Stephens family owns and operates the company. In recent years, the third generation of the Stephens family began taking a hand in the business and now contribute to the evolution of Princeton Tec in an ever-changing market, all while maintaining the same values in their pursuits as their grandfather did back in 1975.

Princeton Tec was born with our founder's invention of the Bottom Timer, the industry's first ever automatic dive timer. From there, similar applications were used at Princeton Tec to create a fully waterproof divable flashlight, an innovative product noted for its affordability, opening up a whole new world for recreational divers across the globe. As we continued to engineer premier lighting products for underwater exploration, our foundational flashlight collection, Dive, was formed.

As our Dive collection flourished, we decided to expand the Princeton Tec brand into all areas of outdoor adventure, and designed excellent headlamps and handheld lights specifically crafted for the outdoor activities our products still support today.

Our Tactical line was cultivated as we returned to our roots of underwater illumination and began supplying the U.S. Military with strobe lights for Navy SEALs. The positive response to Princeton Tec products from military personnel inspired us to engineer personal lighting products fit for all branches of the military. Now, with our matured collection of Tactical products, we proudly serve the specialized needs of the military, first responders, and other everyday heroes with industry leading lighting products.

Princeton Tec continues to nurture our brand with the same spirit of innovation that got us to where we are today, as we persist in our pursuit to push limits and empower oursleves to go further.