What's your Ultimate Dive Watch???

[clonetrooper]

[subkrawler]

I have 4 Rolex Divers (sub, 2 Seadwellers & 1 DEEPSEA) and I would never take them diving---
reasons: They are expensive and delicate precision instruments. I don't wanna lose them or
bang them agianst something hard.

I would be glad to take any g-shock or seiko monster diving with me.

But the ultimate onem would be the CHARMEX CX20K ---- The way that watch looks,
it is begging to be taken deep into the abyss ---- Yup, CX20,000 feet woud be my choice.

After all the Rolexes implode, the cx20k will still be intact andcontinue descending....awesome!!

There's nothing delicate about a Rolex Oyster, especially a Submariner or a SeaDweller. I've put my 14060M, 16600, and 16610LV, through more underwater use over the past few years, than most will see in a lifetime. They've been hit on rusty bulkheads of sunken ships, banged on stage bottles during gas switches, caked with mud during Sheriff Dept recovery dives, and I never once thought the watch couldn't take it.

I snagged and bent the 16600's clasp so bad on another diver's gear during rescue training, that the clasp wouldn't close...but it didn't break. I've hit crystals so hard on aluminum stage bottles that it left metal scuffs on the crystal, but they wiped right off. If you think a Rolex is delicate, then you've never truly put one through it's intended paces. Either that, or you're very unlucky.

A Submariner or SeaDweller comes closer to my ultimate than any other.

[Doctorsti]

I've had many ultimate dive watches. MM600, MM300, Ploprof, Grand seiko, DSSD, SubC, Autozilla, numerous Tuna, Kinetic Direct Drive SBDD001, Sinn U1000, etc...

By far and away my ultimate dive watch is the Rolex DSSD by a large margin.

[Medphred]

Agree it's expensive and I'd probably be a bit anxious diving w it. But it is one of the original - if not the original - dive watches so for me its the ultimate one to own.
History of the Fifty Fathoms: http://people.timezone.com/jmerino/history50.pdf

How many people diving with this watch! I'm thinking.....none! Too expensive,more for show and not much for go,similar to many Rolex watches, just tooo expensive to see the light of day let alone the depths of the ocean. That is best left to less expensive watches which are more reliable and easily replaced! Now if we'll talking about impressing the ladies bring on the Rolex!!!

[seadweller]

Seadweller - seriously?

you mean the trade of yellow with blue???

[voodootomato]

[Byron2701]

I like my SMP, I like my U2S, but for diving:

Citizen Promaster BN0000 -> good readable dial and cheap enough not to start crying when it gets scratches or gets lost

[Raoul Duke]

[CCJ]

Affordable, cool looking, major street cred due to military issue...

[Renisin]

Your right of course,it is a real legend,but I was under the impression that we were talking about the ultimate dive watch, not the ultimate dive watch collectable!! Rolex is also one that is steeped in dive history,but no one I know is diving with their 10000.00-20000.00 dollar Rollies, got one friend in CapeCoral and he does use his all stainless steel sub and it is beat to hell!

Agree it's expensive and I'd probably be a bit anxious diving w it. But it is one of the original - if not the original - dive watches so for me its the ultimate one to own.
History of the Fifty Fathoms: http://people.timezone.com/jmerino/history50.pdf