Wear My Rolex Sea Dweller to Roatan??

[tridacna]

Look again.... special edition Rolex Daytona in black.

I suspect that the presence of the date and a second hand would increase the number of failure points and therefore disqualify this timepiece for DIR.

 

[DanBMW]

I can't imagine why anyone would want to wear or take an expensive piece of jewelry on a trip, much less a dive trip where you have to worry about it. As far as the Rolex, a new one will get the attention of customs and they will check the band to see how loose it is. Best to have a customs slip handy if it is real new. Pick up an old one and you'll easily feel the difference. I've got one and would never take it on a trip. Not necessary. Good Timex works as well with out the worry.

 

[Doc Intrepid]

I never understood owning a great dive watch and not diving with it.

To each his or her own opinion, no doubt.

But IMHO it depends a great deal on where you are diving. It's also a matter of what do you mind losing.

A $6000.00 dive watch is a fine thing.

But I've been diving since 1975, and like Nemrod, I've had some weird things happen while diving. Don't ask Nemrod about how he knows that a pin can slip out of the watchband and a diver can lose their Rolex. I've had watches stripped off my wrist while being rolled around in heavy surf in the South Pacific. I've also been asked by a couple of different boat owners if I'd be willing to look for their Rolexes while diving.

In terms of foreign environments, most of the people there are lovely folks. But again, it only takes one encounter with a guy who wants that $6000.00 Rolex worse than you do, and you're back to the insurance boogie.

I travel for a living. I spend a lot of time in Russian, Croatia, the various 'Stans, and so on. I could take a lot of things overseas, but I follow one rule: never take anything on a trip I wouldn't be willing to lose, have stolen, or jettison in the gravest extreme. I travel with a cheap watch that won't mark me as a target, my computer hard drive is empty of anything sensitive (files are on a thumb drive), and my 'get out of Dodge' cash is separated in a number of different places so it can't be all snatched in one incident.

So can you dive with your $6K Rolex at various destination resorts? Sure.

But all over the board are descriptions of SB divers losing valuables when their hotel rooms were ransacked, and/or being confronted for valuables, and that includes stuff left in the hotel safe.

So if you're willing to lose the watch and go through the hassle of making an insurance claim, then go for it.

But if it has some special meaning for you, like your Dad gave it to you or some other sentimental value, or if its irreplaceable for some reason (such as they quit making it) so you can't replace it, I'd find another watch to dive with that you wouldn't mind losing.

Whichever way you go, I hope you enjoy your vacation.

Doc

 

[builder58]

My favorite response on the other board:


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Originally Posted by Markg View Post
thats the stupidest thing i have heard in a long time...

when diving, i dont wear my sub, but rather two computers. but it has NOTHING to do with what he told you.....
I use two computers as well...

When the first computer requires decompression I hang it at 10 feet while I dive using the second computer, by the time it needs to decompress, I can usually re use the first...

By alternating computers all day I can usually double my bottom time

 

[The Kraken]

OK, an honest answer to the question . . .

. . . if you feel as if you are being obstrepterious, then you are.

the K

 

[Nemrod]

That's funny I was just saying the same thing about Doxa and Seiko.

, now that is a watch, I like that and it is big enough to see without a magnifying lens like those bitsy little Rolex watches. You might need a body guard to escort you with that on your arm . Somebody might steal that thing just for recycling coin.

N

 

[rboyer]

Rolex are kind of small, only about a 39.5 mm case, doubt anyone would think to steal it really being so small and unimpressive.

The Seiko has a special anti-gravitational rotor that resists the coriolis effect and nanoflux particles present within the Bermuda Triangle.

N

Just FYI Have yo seen the new Deep Sea Sea Dweller? It has a 43mm case!!!

 

[vjb.knife]

, now that is a watch, I like that and it is big enough to see without a magnifying lens like those bitsy little Rolex watches. You might need a body guard to escort you with that on your arm . Somebody might steal that thing just for recycling coin.

N

I still like Rolex as well and own three, there's nothing like them. Never needed a body guard and would not be likely for quite some time.