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I'm putting rhinestones around the face of my Perdix!!

This is brilliant.....I’ve always wanted to dress like Liberace underwater!
 
Hmm. DIR bedazzling.
 
I buy and sell watches as part of my estate jewelery business. I own Rolexes, Omegas, Pateks etc...

I dive with a Citizen.

This is probably the wisest piece of advice I've read in the thread. There's probably a number of us in the forum that deal / collect nice watches and I'm pretty sure we all take Citizens , Seikos and Shearwaters underwater.

Most-Expensive-Dive-Watch-Ever award goes to a DSD (Discover Scuba Diving) Chinese gentleman who took the plunge (literally) this August in the Phils with a Gold Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar (legit one, I know watches). Guy was using rented, worn-down rented gear from the guys I dive with. His watch alone was probably worth more than all the gear of all the divers on the boat, plus the boat itself. Go figure. :)
 
So, would one consider this just a luxury status device or worth the money as a functional watch?

Also, if worth it, any difference between a nicely used one versus a new one? Asking because I love Rolex watches, but I like vintage Rolex, typically.

Pretty much a status symbol. Does nothing underwater than a Seiko SKX or Turtle doesn't do and one does not weep if their Seiko floods or somehow sinks to the briny depths.

A wiseman once said, "don't take anything into the water that you are afraid to lose". I very much apply this concept to something as superfluous as a dive watch. I like diving with a dive watch as a back-up timer, but I leave my expensive watch at home, or in the room.
 
A wiseman once said, "don't take anything into the water that you are afraid to lose". I very much apply this concept to something as superfluous as a dive watch.

If I followed that maxim, I wouldn't bring my Nautilus radio or Perdix computer on any dives. Adding superfluous to the maxim makes much more sense.

EDIT: Maybe adding "unnecessarily expensive" would be good, too
 
If I followed that maxim, I wouldn't bring my Nautilus radio or Perdix computer on any dives. Adding superfluous to the maxim makes much more sense.

EDIT: Maybe adding "unnecessarily expensive" would be good, too

Yeah, there's a little hyperbole in that statement - if I were to follow it to the letter, I wouldn't go diving with my Perdix either, nor my wife for that matter.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/teric/

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