stupid question -breitling watches

[coberry7]

I used to sell these watches: Breitling, Tag Heuer, Omega, Baume Mercier, Citizen, Seiko, and several others that do not offer dive watches.

I cannot tell you how many times an uninformed customer was dead set against buying one watch over another based on depth rating of that watch. Even if I helped them with my knowledge of the watches and my knowledge of diving, they would still ignore me. After all, at the time, I was just a retail salesman.

Rule of thumb: If you have money and like the swiss stuff, buy it. Be prepared for a $200 to $800 bill for servicing every so often. Swiss watches are more expensive than regulators to maintain and purchase.

Swatch Corp. as in 'Swatch Watch' of 80's fame..owns most of the high end swiss watch companies..Omega, Movado, and Tag Heuer come to mind.

Also, the movement in a Rolex, an Omega, and many other watches is manufactured by an outside company. These movements may be assembled by the individual companies, but the parts are the same. Sometimes the movements are purchased assembled. Do not be fooled, most of those watches are the same inside. You are paying for the exterior and the name and recognition that goes with the name.

Also keep in mind that these watches are sold at a minimum of triple keystone. (at least triple cost.) To put that in perspective, I was able to purchase an Omega Seamaster Automatic 40mm (James Bond's watch, without the laser..) for about $500.00, brand new from the factory with my discount, which was cost less 10%. (The manufacturers wanted you in their watches.)

Colin Berry

 

[H2Andy]

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

dude, i don't speak French

 

[zslnk]

I used to sell these watches: Breitling, Tag Heuer, Omega, Baume Mercier, Citizen, Seiko, and several others that do not offer dive watches.

I cannot tell you how many times an uninformed customer was dead set against buying one watch over another based on depth rating of that watch. Even if I helped them with my knowledge of the watches and my knowledge of diving, they would still ignore me. After all, at the time, I was just a retail salesman.

Rule of thumb: If you have money and like the swiss stuff, buy it. Be prepared for a $200 to $800 bill for servicing every so often. Swiss watches are more expensive than regulators to maintain and purchase.

Swatch Corp. as in 'Swatch Watch' of 80's fame..owns most of the high end swiss watch companies..Omega, Movado, and Tag Heuer come to mind.

Also, the movement in a Rolex, an Omega, and many other watches is manufactured by an outside company. These movements may be assembled by the individual companies, but the parts are the same. Sometimes the movements are purchased assembled. Do not be fooled, most of those watches are the same inside. You are paying for the exterior and the name and recognition that goes with the name.

Also keep in mind that these watches are sold at a minimum of triple keystone. (at least triple cost.) To put that in perspective, I was able to purchase an Omega Seamaster Automatic 40mm (James Bond's watch, without the laser..) for about $500.00, brand new from the factory with my discount, which was cost less 10%. (The manufacturers wanted you in their watches.)

Colin Berry

Your correct about many 'Swatch Group' watch brands using an 'outside sourced' movement, an ETA comes to mind. Rolex does NOT use outside movements in their current lines. There was a time that the Daytona Chronos used a Valjoux movement but those are not the norm.

Some companies like Omega (Swatch) use a modified ETA movement that Omega takes and polishes or otherwise changes but a Rolex is all in-house built.

Craig.

 

[Albion]

We had a guy work with us who bought a $20 copy Rolex off the market and wondered why it flooded in the pool even though it said rated 200m. (he had an enginering degree as well - not from the the market)

 

[Albion]

Getting back to first post, I think the Breitling Colt SuperOcean is 1000m rated!!!!!!!!
pure pose value, and has a treated leather strap that is ok in sea water

 

[zslnk]

I agree, I have a Sea-Dweller that's 4000ft rated, lets get real, if I get ballsey it might see 140. I appreciate it more as a machine because I'm an engineer, that and it's huge, I'd look silly with a small watch. A timex is really all you need, any more and it's just jewlery.

Craig.

 

[paolov]

i have a Citizen promaster hyper aqualand rated to 200M.

It has served me well for it's purpose. Though it has only experienced a depth of 45 meters scuba for 20 mins.

here is a stupid thing that i assumed: on a dive three weekends ago, i went diving and on the 2nd Day of the dive, my Suunto Mosquito entered the ERROR mode at 90ft under water. and since the BAT blinked i attributed it to the battery.

at 70ft my redundant(sort of) watch the citizen went into error mode as well. and a BT was blinking with a diver icon blinking as well (i pressumed it to be Bottom Time -BT). and thought that this is it for the citizen it has used up its life or i messed up my profiles....

the night before we went night Diving and i kept on checking the suunto ergo using the back light(we were at 85ft for a night dive) hence the frequent check on the SUUNTO. and prior to the night dive, a diver borrowed the Citizen watch as we were on a boat dive and realized that she has no timing nor depth guage just before we were to enter the water. and the site was far from shore at 100ft.

So it happened that both instruments entered ERROR mode at the same instance. I went to a shop after the weekend and had the service center of Citizen check it out. they subjected it to pressure test and lo the conclusion was battery, the BT was BaTtery low. grrrrrrrrrrrrr..... so a new battery and seal was installed.

next for service was the SUUNTO mosquito, battery and seal set as well were replaced.

the cost upon my purchase of the Citizen promaster $140.00 with computer link for data transfers. the last time i had the battery and seal replaced was 2years ago.

 

[VTernovski]

I think it's silly to have a watch saying anything more than 500M... C'mon... I would actually feel stupid wearing this. like I said I have OMS watch that says 500M, and yes, ok, it does sound more cooler than an "average" dive watch that says 200M... ok, and so on.... 1000M sounds cooler than 500M watch? where does it stop?

...like BELL&ROSS hydromax watch - it actually says it can go to 11,100 M -- ok, good luck.

 

[aasb]

If the world scuba depth record is just over 1000 feet, why would my watch company advertise its watch proof til 500m/1650ft?

Are they just ****ing with unwitting novice divers?

EC

No, they are not messing with you-the listing on the watches also has to do with pressure, not just depth.

 

[android]

My Omega Seamaster fogged up. I had some round about with the watchmaker that had recently serviced it and pressure tested it. He insisted I must have left the crown open and that it was still testing good. We discussed other ways it could have gotten water into it and he gave me an article about care of waterproof watches.

It turns out you're not supposed to wear it in the jacuzzi or sauna. Steam can get past the seals that will keep water out and then condense inside.

That's most likely what happened to mine since I used to wear it all day and that included the sauna at the YMCA since I didn't want to leave it in a locker.

He didn't charge me for drying it out and I've had it to 75ft since then with no problems, but no more sauna for the Omega.