Diving watches

[old frogman]

If Vostok watches were good enough for Steve Zissou, they're good enough for me.

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Yes, The Life Aquatic. Some pretty big names in Hollywood in that film. There you go, everyone should be wearing a Vostok.

 

[Bigbella]

Vostok watches were also well known for their ease of customization, both the faces and backs, heh, heh, heh . . .

 

[mac66]

There are a lot youtube vids on dive watches including cheap ones like the one below

 

[scrane]

I have one of these Seiko 6105 watches that I bought in 1973 for my NAUI OW certification on St Croix, USVI. It's somewhere in the house, but I'd have to take the place apart to find it. Anyways, here's a video of a guy doing a rebuild on a 6105. Fascinating!

 

[myself]

Hello. I got infatuated with scuba diving a couple of months. Still fresh (60 dives, Master diver, Deep diving and Science of Diving certified,...). I am also a big fan of watches and collect them. I have never been interested in Rolex. Too bulky or over rated for me. I buy things that I like not because I can resell them.
Now, for me, there is no real added value in having a diving watch compared to a diving computer. Even less when you wear two diving computers. Am I wrong? Then, the real question of this thread: is it worth buying a Rolex Submariner, the self called ultimate diver watch?

I recently got a steel diver watch for Christmas, and I love it to wear around every day. I'd be a bit hesitant to actually use a watch that's as expensive as a submariner day to day, but they are nice watches.

 

[old frogman]

I have one of these Seiko 6105 watches that I bought in 1973 for my NAUI OW certification on St Croix, USVI. It's somewhere in the house, but I'd have to take the place apart to find it. Anyways, here's a video of a guy doing a rebuild on a 6105. Fascinating!

I have one also. 1968 6105-8000, predecessor of the Seiko Willard 1970 6105- 8000. Named after Captain Willard in "Apocalypse Now" 1979 film. In the film Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) US Army Special Forces is tasked to terminate, "with extreme prejudice", Col Kurtz (Marlon Brando) US Army Special Forces. Col Kurtz has gone "up the Congo" (gone rogue).

"Apocalypse Now" is an adaptation of the book "Hearts of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and the original story is set in the colonial African Congo.

 

[ftnpenlvr]

2 dive watches for me, in total. One is the Casio mentioned a couple pages ago, that is my day-to-day watch. When not diving, it gets the leather band; when I am ready to get wet, I will swap out for the rubber strap. I did recently add a Luminox Frogman to the stable, and might well just stick with that one for wet time, and leave the leather on the Casio. Still debating, though.

 

[Pressurehead]

I did recently add a Luminox Frogman

Photo of said Frogman , please.

 

[ftnpenlvr]

Photo of said Frogman , please.

Ask and ye shall receive!

 

[Pressurehead]

OK, I have to ask, how much $US was that?
I know, if you have to ask, you can't afford it.