Seiko Divers - Past and Present

Professor · Aug 30, 2019

P pongster
Were there even dive watches then?

That's one thing I'm wondering. The USN had the Bureau of Shipping canteen type watch, and IIRC the Russians had French made watches for hardhat divers and a unusual very large watch with a low depth rating for use by divers working on bridges and such in rivers.

The Japanese weren't adverse to buying European products if they were deemed superior to home grown, and Japanese officers could carry personal purchase weapons such as European or American handguns. Role made their Oyster case and there were a few competitors.

PS
Since in the days of the rebreather divers, other than hard hat divers, seldom ventured below 50 feet depth I suspect that many early waterproofed watches could have been used with greater or lesser reliability.

There were a few pre WW2 watches housed in separate waterproof cases with view window. and I found one image of a Japanese military watch housed in something like this. It didn't look that resistant to me, but may have originally had a thick rubber gasket.

pongster · Oct 3, 2019

In their boxes

beerbelly · Oct 3, 2019

My 62mas

JimInOz · Oct 3, 2019

Here's a nice shot of a 6309-7040 "Turtle".

Jerseyhammer · Oct 3, 2019

P pongster
In their boxes

Fantastic

Uniqez · Oct 3, 2019

Turtles!

CPRwatch · Oct 3, 2019

Modern reinterpretation of a Seiko classic , which itself is already a modern Seiko classic .

Yak1 · Oct 3, 2019

JimInOz
Here's a nice shot of a 6309-7040 "Turtle".

Love it. Every time I think about getting a different type of dive watch I remind myself about the awesome of vintage seikos.

Utheman · Oct 3, 2019

2 modern...

jaspers · Oct 5, 2019

How about this Turtle SRPC49? The PVD coating is done incredibly well: matte on the top of the lugs, glossy on the sides of the case. Limited edition, released in 2018 😀

Utheman
2 modern...

pongster · Mar 5, 2020

https://monochrome-watches.com/seik...ilogy-sla037-sla039-sla041-introducing-price/

pongster · Aug 18, 2020

Updating my first pic

Twocats · Sep 8, 2020

P pongster
SLA017 and 62mas
SLA025 and 6195
SLA033 and 6105

Thats actually pretty cool, giving me ideas now 😀

pongster · Sep 8, 2020

Twocats
Thats actually pretty cool, giving me ideas now 😀

Maybe (if you are open to quartz), the golden tuna, the reissue and then SLA041.

Twocats · Sep 8, 2020

P pongster
Maybe (if you are open to quartz), the golden tuna, the reissue and then SLA041.

I like them both but my fear is the size, I already feel like my Speedy pro is on the "too large" side on my wrist, while at the same time I think I pull off my turtles pretty well. I would really need to see them in person.