what was your first dive watch?

[bedlam]

My first ever watch was a diver. I bought a Citizen Promaster when I first started working at the end of high school. Some b*st*rd stole it from my bag at uni while I was playing squash.

[Time Bandit]

First dive watch was the Orange Monster I bought for $125 in 2005. Been hooked ever since.

[Drudge]

It was the Tiger Shark classic dive watch with a Swiss ETA 2824-2.

[inLine4]

Rolex 16613 BLK back in 2005.

[Panama]

This one, and it is still one of my favourite !!

[siddhartha]

Did it come originally on the rubber strap? Did you ever consider getting another?

Any pics of your brother's watch?

Best,

Chris

When my brother and I received our dive certification at the end of 1967, my father presented us both with Omega Seamaster 300s. I was a newly-minted diver and that was my first dive watch ... more than 43 years ago.

I'd include a photo, but the rubber strap on the SM300 parted while I was boating a blue marlin about 35 miles off Cape Hatteras in the late 70s, sending my beloved watch to Davy Jones' Locker. My brother, however, still has his ... and it's still his daily wearer.

Rob

[iinsic]

Did it come originally on the rubber strap? Did you ever consider getting another?

Any pics of your brother's watch?

Best,

Chris

Yes, it came on the rubber strap. And more likely a pin failed than the strap actually broke, but it went "sproing!" and looked like a bird flying away ... at least in the second or two before it hit the water. My father loaned me his to use when diving (he was still wearing his Doxa then), and I replaced it a year or so later in St. Thomas with a Rolex Sub (my first).

You would not want to see a photo of my brother's watch, except as a testimonial to the crap an Omega can take and still function. He's had the movement serviced several times and usually replaces the crystal at the same time (it usually is so wabi'd as to be opaque by then ). He buys OTS Casio straps or keeps a beat-up Speidel link some jeweler sold him (complete with loose endlinks that flop around). He is the least interested person I know with regard to appearance ... we used to call him "Rumpled-stiltskin" when we were younger (he has five siblings).

Rob

[aznhomer16]

Like many others, Invicta 8926. Started me down into this WIS abyss. See how the picture is primed for a "for sale" ad? Yep, it's long gone.

[Nishant]

Mine ! got it with patience and passion ... and sure is a keeper.

[WIS_Chronomaster]

I owned

The first one i bought >