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My RLX are all vintage and the tritium has passed its heydays long ago but the Seikos do a great job competing with bioluminescent critters during night dives.
Desk/Real Divers anyone?
I wonder how many owners actually wear these 300m-rated watches into the abyss? If so, how do they fair in terms of viability of time and the lume down there? Interestingly for Omega, one has He escape valve and one doesn’t, both rated same. I know I wore...
Lovely collection of luxury divers.
DIN 8306 (European requirements) are that the lume remains visible from a distance of 25cm (a little less than a foot) in pitch darkness. Not sure how long that needs to remain the case, but I’m gonna try to find out.
You’re so resourceful. Thanks for the info.
It’s also subjective if one’s eyesight is not perfect low light situation.
Agreed.
And I’m not that resourceful; I just read the brochure that I came with my DIN 8306 compliant Sinn U50 😁
You know I’m always into modern pieces. I am too scare to go into vintage, too risky and not sure if it’s worth it….
Totally have to buy only from original owners or someone you know.
MD Rolexes? Care to enlighten my clueless soul?
Yes this one is quite cool looking 👍🏻 Thank you.
Wow…if history will repeat…
Rolex has passed such collaboration batons to Tudor now 😍
Yes, apparently these were allocated only in the state and some ADs there….
But some must have flow out….I got it from C24, preowned.
That’s a good point on night dives…then these modern divers will need a light source to charge up the lume.
I think maybe a battery operated watch will work as well.
depends on what you mean by abyss
The limit for recreational diving is 40m and most boats have a 30m limit. After your certification (PADI open water or similar) 18m is how deep you can go. Helium is in the domain of technical diving which requires specialist training, and the gaskets are...
Rolex advertisement and website seems to imply they are the benchmark watch for such purposes…
But didn’t specify like you said, the depth or level of diving skills, conditions etc. You’re right about good lighting, because I would imagine during night diving, these will not be very useful. To that point, their Deepsea at 4000ft, I guess Lume is no...
Memories
That was a long long time ago. Should never have let it go. It was only SGD$8.8k back then. It had a hard life, on frequent trips to the reef. The maximum depth was 30m with it. Later, I had the JLC Navy Seals alarm. I brought it on many dives too. The al...
The bracelet for the Submariners were shown on some wet suits but maybe not the thick ones…
You’re absolutely right about the straps. I’m not sure the new NTTD Omega has a good design for diving with the deployant. I also like the Nekton but with the NTTD, I don’t need another similar model. Blancpain’s FF and other models are always intriguing ...
;) a pleasure
Out of curiosity, which piece do you wear the most? How do you find the Omega SM in Titanium and Tantalum?
In terms of frequency of wearing…
Since the Kermit, SM NTTD Titanium (no Tantalum) and Tudor Qatar were all new additions, Oct 16/29, 2020, and May 2021, I wear them more to check against accuracy and making sure no issues while still under warranty. The Hulk ((2019) is next follow by the...