Rolex Submariner

[rhwestfall]

There is only one place I dive a watch. We do a River drift here (from shore) that won't get you deeper than 30' (and usually less), that you basically ride the current for a set time (0:45), and surface to swim to your exit spot (if longer, you are screwed with an exit over large stone/concrete rubble of shore scour protection. All you need is a watch...

Yeah, everything else is a computer or two, and even x2 is still way under a "luxury watch" that does nothing for you but provide "bling"....

YMMV

 

[JohnnyC]

Nice watch, and fully functional for telling time. For diving? No way. Not worth it. Plenty of better-suited watches and computers.

 

[doctormike]

There is only one place I dive a watch. We do a River drift here (from shore) that won't get you deeper than 30' (and usually less), that you basically ride the current for a set time (0:45), and surface to swim to your exit spot (if longer, you are screwed with an exit over large stone/concrete rubble of shore scour protection. All you need is a watch...

Yeah, everything else is a computer or two, and even x2 is still way under a "luxury watch" that does nothing for you but provide "bling"....

YMMV

Why don't you just take your computer to time the dive? That way, you also have a profile for your log, right? I mean, I guess a watch is fine if you don't own a computer for that specific dive...

 

[drainaps]

As, said by Eric Sedletzky above, it's an obsolete diving device. A cool one to own, for sure.

Would you want your first officer on a transatlantic flight to use a sextant to calculate the aircraft's position instead of relying on the on-board GPS and / or inertial navigation systems? Most probably not. Then, why would you want to use the equivalent of the sextant (a mechanical watch) when you dive?

Just let me add that I'm a mechanical diving watch nut and I am lucky to own a few of the brands/models mentioned in this thread. I'm a technical diver too, and 100% of the time you'll find a Teric on my left wrist.... AND another Teric on my right wrist.

I sometimes go down nostalgy lane and bring a third (mechanical) watch along. Contrary to what's being said here, a well serviced vintage dive watch will have no issues at all with a 50-60-80 meters dive, and I do it on occasion, but as, said in the thread, I prefer to cut my loses and ensure I'm safe by just bringing the Terics along.

Before I wrap up, there's many quality mechanical dive watches with performances equal to a Submariner or a Sea Dweller, costing 1/10 th of the price (a well-regulated Seiko comes to mind), but alas, Rolex has unparalleled marketing muscle and our perceptions are bent.

Safe dives, all

 

[NothingClever]

Better dive watch when you want something to back up a computer.

 

[NothingClever]

Oris is very nice, IMO, and also makes a dive watch with an integrated depth gauge. It’s much more than the Citizen but nowhere close to the high altitude price tag of a Rolex. I think the depth gauge is really only useful for recreational depths.

 

[doctormike]

A dive watch is something that you wear to a party so that people will say "oh, are you a scuba diver?" and then you can talk about scuba diving all night long.

Unless it's a Rolex Submariner. Those are so popular that the vast majority of people wearing them aren't divers.

 

[Lorenzoid]

Better dive watch when you want something to back up a computer. . . .

Why not simply buy another computer to back up a computer? They even make computers the size of a traditional wristwatch these days. Teric - Shearwater Research

 

[NothingClever]

I’ve got my daughter’s bedroom to remodel, a BMW sports car to restore, a Ducati track bike that needs attention, two others I need to get rid of, a bathroom to remodel and a family dive vacation in 2020 so only one Shearwater Perdix for me, Doc. On the other wrist is a slate and a BT. I don’t dive a square profile but I have to have something to resort to if my Perdix quits on me. I don’t want to wear a separate watch AND a depth gauge so the Citizen fits the bill for me.

 

[NothingClever]

Why not simply buy another computer to back up a computer? They even make computers the size of a traditional wristwatch these days. Teric - Shearwater Research

I can burn $600 of track fees, race gas and rear tire in a morning on a track. Some of us have more than one expensive hobby (or perhaps simply less paycheck than others).