Never liked Seikos, even when Scubapro dealers sold them.
Never liked Seikos, even when Scubapro dealers sold them. I purchased my Tudor sub back when these were in shops, and I still have it 40 years later. It has been serviced about four times, keeps great time, and is worth about 25 times what I paid for it new. I have retired it from diving, though, even though it passed pressure tests fine since the last overhaul. I think I made the right decision.
Save your money and get a good diving computer. You don't want to dive with tables. A G-Shock would be a good back-up.
With all the gadgets that goes with diving nowadays, diving watches are really not necessary....however, with that being said, I can never go diving without a dive watch on!
Here are the watches I usually wear when diving with the Aquaracer being the one most used with the Prospex being a close second. The Yema just came out of hibernation so it will soon get some water time. The MarineMaster has been retired after only 1 dive due to the leather strap that I like so much on it!
Enjoy the new hobby because it's unlike no other 😀
I know there are people who have great faith in their vintage pieces being reliable for real submersion- that’s awesome.
I look at it like having a vintage car (I had a few). The fear of finding myself stranded on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere, billowing steam and dumping oil while trying to attempt a cross-country rally outweighed the appeal of the idea. I’m sure my car would have made it just fine, but I would have been holding my breathe the entire time waiting for the failure. I would rather just buy a new Subaru for that duty and not have the fear in the back of my head....but that’s just me.
As a side note- I did drive my vintage BMW to a concourse 200 miles away from home and got stuck in standstill traffic on my way back...watching the temp gauge creeping up and worrying if I was going to overheat as I crept along definitely took the bloom off the rosy day.
What model is that Seiko??? Good god! 🥰
+1. Dive watches these days are best suited for desk divers as they have been supplanted by diving computers. Although wearing a dive watch for a backup is a good idea, I certainly wouldn't use a vintage dive watch or frankly -- any modern and expensive dive watch (SMPc, PO, Submariner, I'm talking about you) -- for that purpose. Stuff happens. There's a current thread on OF right now that concerns a gentlemen who went swimming with his recently serviced Submariner with bad results.
Dive watches simply do not, under any circumstances, belong with a suit, a dinner jacket, or formal wear.
BUT, if you're going to do it, you're making an unspoken claim: "This is my watch, and I wear it doing other stuff. I'm a man of action, you see..."
Maybe for you. I have been collecting and wearing all kinds of watches for many years and no one seems to notice or give a rat's ass what watch is on my wrist in any setting besides at a dedicated watch get together.
However from reading your posts I do think you are a "man of action" if that makes you feel any better 😁
I can't quite get my head around this.
Why buy a dive watch at all, when there are so many other cool options?
Plenty of 30m to 50m field watches that are as rugged as John Wayne. Chronographs and other doodads and complications. When I was a pup, I loved anything with a moon phase: I thought that was fancy as flip.
Dive watches simply do not, under any circumstances, belong with a suit, a dinner jacket, or formal wear.
BUT, if you're going to do it, you're making an unspoken claim: "This is my watch, and I wear it doing other stuff. I'm a man of action, you see..."
If something happens to it, well, it's line of duty. That's why you don't buy from Jomashop. You get it fixed. Or get an SKX; those things are badazz, and I can't believe I actually get a pang of jealousy when I see them on other folks, being primarily an Omega wearer. Those things are the business. No pretense.
I think it's a shame that you have to kinda 'buy into' heritage now. It's my one real beef with Omega, and that's really with myself. I often think, I wish I'd gotten a Seawolf or Doxa or an Oris, one and done.
Ah well, opinions and azzholes...
Here's a little softcore porn.
The bottom pic is diving semi-dry with a 50 degree F bottom temp. Shock of shocks, the seals didn't shrink ( though other things did ), and allow the watch to flood.
Couldn't find anything handy showing the PO or MC properly.
And finally - not my computer, but you tell me which one is cooler =
Honestly, I just hate to see neat, purpose built stuff go to waste.
