Horological Meandering

BDLJ
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Half true..

I wear a 'dive watch' of sorts when I've been diving. An old g-shock, batteries changed at home, o-rings never replaced, bit hacked really, no idea what it would be rated at now. I've also worn a old Seiko diver. But I also have very very ugly second hand old dive computer that I depend on (not to mention the experience of my dive buddy)

The issue for me is that if you wore a GP SeaHawk (tourbillon?) with dual (!) HRVs on the little tropical recreational dives I have been on, you'd get laughed at on your Open Water certificate. And in some ways, justifiably so.

I get what you mean regarding the likes of the Rolex SD, but the same could be said for almost ANY diver (or diver-style or superlative whatever) you care to mention. It's marketing wind. Fun watches, though.

1000m dive watches? 2000m dive watches? All admirable in a purely engineering sense but I'd like to see something like a impactor test on the crystal. That would convince me that the watch was tough and up to the task....