You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who only uses a watch, depth gauge, and tables to dive. It's just such a suboptimal approach that it makes no sense anymore given how good dive computers are. Some people say it's good to have a watch as a backup in case of a computer failure, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. You'd still need a depth gauge. Better to just buy an inexpensive backup computer. But to each his/her own.
That said, I still love my dive watch collection (Doxa, Squale, Mido, G-SHOCK, Citizen, and a bunch of Seikos) and wear them all the time. They are mostly desk divers, but my watches do see plenty of water time when I'm on vacation and swimming and snorkeling with my wife (who isn't a diver). For what it's worth, Seiko and Citizen make some of the best bang-for-the-buck dive watches on the market (although the lower-end Seiko's have increased in price over the last few years). The Seiko 4R35 and 4R36 movements in my collection are all running about +2-6 spd, which is pretty damn amazing at this price point. If you like solar quartz movements, the Citizen EcoDrive is exceptional. And, if lume is a big deal to you, both Seiko and Citizen absolutely nail it.