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For about five years I was wearing a non-diving "solar powered dress watch." I certainly enjoyed wearing it, light weight, very accurate, built in light function and it satisfied my wife's requirement for a dress watch. With all things there is "a beginning, a middle and an end" and the end came all to fast. I checked the time and it was working a few moments later it was blank never to work again.
So it is back to the "ole dive watch."
Prescribing to the adage that if one is serious about an activity they will have more than one; a shooter has more than one gun (at least for a while!) a photographer has more than one camera and a lover has more than one girl friend (or so I am informed)
I consider my self a serious diver so I also have more than one diving watch- I also prescribe to the adage that there hasn't been a watch made that I couldn't flood.
So off to the watch bag, where I discovered several that I had not been flooded. I had grown tired of them or the battery ran down so I replaced with a newer model.
I chose two watches a 40 or more year old gold face with a gold band "Chronosport" which will satisfy my wife's requirement to have a "dress watch." I also discovered a fifteen year old "Citizen" Orange faced (ala my DOXA) dive watch which I had purchased in Hong Kong only to discover it's built in depth gauge was calibrated in meters rather than feet. O well!
Off to the jewelers for batteries. The Chronosport was $7.00 and the newer Citizen was $12.oo since it powered so many useless functions.
It would be interesting to know what brand, model and type dive watches others use and any problems and/or success they have had with their dive watches.
SDM
So it is back to the "ole dive watch."
Prescribing to the adage that if one is serious about an activity they will have more than one; a shooter has more than one gun (at least for a while!) a photographer has more than one camera and a lover has more than one girl friend (or so I am informed)
I consider my self a serious diver so I also have more than one diving watch- I also prescribe to the adage that there hasn't been a watch made that I couldn't flood.
So off to the watch bag, where I discovered several that I had not been flooded. I had grown tired of them or the battery ran down so I replaced with a newer model.
I chose two watches a 40 or more year old gold face with a gold band "Chronosport" which will satisfy my wife's requirement to have a "dress watch." I also discovered a fifteen year old "Citizen" Orange faced (ala my DOXA) dive watch which I had purchased in Hong Kong only to discover it's built in depth gauge was calibrated in meters rather than feet. O well!
Off to the jewelers for batteries. The Chronosport was $7.00 and the newer Citizen was $12.oo since it powered so many useless functions.
It would be interesting to know what brand, model and type dive watches others use and any problems and/or success they have had with their dive watches.
SDM