What Brand is Your Dive watch???

[scububa]

I have a Wenger 200m model. Got it as a selection for a service award from my work place. I have used it for a couple of dozen dives.

Before that I had two Timex Helix's go bad (and my daughter another). And before that, my everyday Seiko Kinetic (100m) but it doesn't have a bezel timer ring.

 

[jumbo]

First off, I picked up a citizen promaster and after a year the battery went out. They replaced the battery for a neat $80, then about 8 months later the crystal was cracked and they wanted $140 to fix it. So I said the heck with citizen and will not buy one again.

So then I picked up a st. moritz momentum and it worked fine until I spotted the new st. moritz Neros. So I traded up when they first came out , now I am on my third watch, they did not charge me to replace the watch but I work for a dive shop that sells the watch and I think that may have had something to do with it.

bottom line is this, when our shop picked up the first series of the watch most of the staff bought the neros, out of the six original watches only one has not been replaced! And the owner of that watch is a orthodontist, not exactly rugged work


JUMBO

 

[dpbishop]

I'm on my third Casio G-shock in 25+ years, swim, scuba, surf, sail ( it has a count-down timer that I need for racing). I still have the 2nd one, its works fine but the plastic housing cracks after 10 years or so. I have a gold citizen dive watch for formal occasions, but it's analog and my ancient eyes can't read it that well anymore.

 

[angelnature]

I have a Sharper Ladies Reactive, hubby bought it to replace my Rolex that leaked, I had the rolex for 5 yrs and used it once on a trainingg session, it now sits in my jewellery box, but very pleased to say my Reactive is great as it looks and feels just like my rolex but it works under water............. very happy lady here.

Debs

 

[Puffer Fish]

Citizen eco-drive and Invicta. Invicta automatic sits waiting to be used for annual dive trip. Citizen for everyday.

 

[texdiveguy]

Timex HELIX dive watch...very nice.

 

[pitio]

Citizen Hyper Aqualund - good watch, but the battery change costs too much.

Suunto Mosquito - Love it, but the battery does not last long.

Omega Seamaster - Nice, but no depth gauge.

Casio Sea Pathfinder SPF70 - This watch is almost perfect! Solar powered, digital compass, depth gauge, bottom timer, thermometer, and small price (got it for $115!) are included all in one! However, the depth gauge is not automatically activated when I am in the water. I have to remember to turn it on everytime I dive. If I activate it underwater at 10ft. Next I dive deeper to 30ft. It will acutally dispaly 20ft. Big disappointment.

I wish there were a dive watch has all these features beside time/date
- Solar Powered (never needs battery change)
- Dive computer (including air/nitrox/gauge mode)
- Digital Compass

Does anybody know such watch that does all?
Suunto D9 + Solar Power would be ideal for me!

 

[newportscuba]

Timex Ironman 200 meter.

 

[Makin Raider]

Diving with a Casio G shock here. FYI - Last January I took a Time and Frequency Semiar given by NIST and it covered oscillators, "atomic" since it's their signal making the corrections, stopwatches and their calibration/performance verification - all job related. During the semiar, watches were brought up and those giving the semiar talked about an informal study they performed of about 500 watches by measuring their oscillators with an audio pickup and they informally came up with more expensive watches kept were less accurate over time. Some were losing up to 15 seconds per day. While he stated they cannot endorse, Timex and Casio kept the best time.

 

[JOhn Cameron]

I have a few as you can see, but I have only dove with my Casio DW5600 so far. Hopefully I will take the Casio SPF 100 for a test. I'm very curious about its depth and temp accuracy. I am seriously looking at the Aqualand Duplex as my regular dive watch. Thanks for looking.

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