Diving watches

[Nemrod]

This isn’t really true. Seiko has been selling tons of their “5KX” watches, plus turtles, samurais, etc, all of them automatics. And that’s just from the Seiko 5 and Prospex catalogs, not to mention their Presage line and others.

I said SKX007/009 are currently not available or being produced. I have a new Turtle reissue from a few years ago and I gave a link to the current SRP line. My SKX007 and my Turtle reissue were not available in the US and are not NA Seiko product. I got them overseas.

 

[guppy boy]

I've got a Citizen Eco-Drive. Not a Rolex, but I've not late anywhere.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I think that is a Seiko 173… a version of the 007?

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Well, that's awesome. Thank you! Good catch.

 

[Outbound]

I must have misunderstood your post then. I thought you were saying that Americans don’t understand how to use automatic watches.

 

[rx7diver]

tis true ... i have a deepsea (would NEVER go diving with it) ...

I think of all those Rolex Submariners out there that have never gone diving. What a shame!

I have "always" loved the idea of an extra-thick NATO strap used in conjunction with the "fixed bars" (i.e., soldered-in bars) of the original Rolex Milsub 5513 and 5517 watches, which was a required by Britain's Ministry of Defence. Clever! I wonder if the "spring bars" of today's Submariners can be replaced with "fixed bars". I certainly would investigate this further if I ever purchase a Submariner that I intend to take diving.

rx7diver

 

[Outbound]

I think of all those Rolex Submariners out there that have never gone diving. What a shame!

I have "always" loved the idea of an extra-thick NATO strap used in conjunction with the "fixed bars" (i.e., soldered-in bars) of the original Rolex Milsub 5513 and 5517 watches, which was a required by Britain's Ministry of Defence. Clever! I wonder if the "spring bars" of today's Submariners can be replaced with "fixed bars". I certainly would investigate this further if I ever purchase a Submariner that I intend to take diving.

rx7diver

The Tudor Pelagos FXD has fixed spring bars. Actually, they are part of the case. So you can only use a NATO strap or other one-piece strap (elastic, for example).

 

[rx7diver]

The Tudor Pelagos FXD has fixed spring bars. Actually, they are part of the case. So you can only use a NATO strap or other one-piece strap (elastic, for example).

Interesting. Titanium. COSC-rated. But bidirectional bezel, 60-click bezel, numbers on the bezel are written in the "wrong" direction, and watch is rated to only 200m. Still, an interesting watch!

rx7diver

 

[Eric802]

Yeah, I don't really understand why they made that with a bidirectional bezel.

 

[rx7diver]

Yeah, I don't really understand why they made that with a bidirectional bezel.

The website (TUDOR Pelagos FXD Diving Watch and French Navy | TUDOR Watch) emphasizes that this model was intended for U/W navigation by French combat divers. Both the bidirectional bezel and bezel times written in the "wrong" direction ("anticlockwise graduation" or "retrograde graduation") are specific for this intended use case, I think.

rx7diver

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I've been drooling over the Tudor Black Bay bronze lately.