Swiss Watch Guide

If you are in the market for one or more quality Swiss diving watches, you had better take the time to really get to know your options out there.  Diving watches are a must, it is not like you can dive without one, and if your watch dies in the deep blue, that can really ruin your trip fast so having one you can really count on being right every time is not something you can afford to be without.  Swiss watches are known for their reliability and the watches they offer are no exception to the rule.  Take a peek at the ones offered online, the internet is a great place to buy things like this, and figure out which watch suites your tastes and needs.  This is a big purchase, and likely to cost you a boatload of money (pardon the pun) in the process.

The Rolex Submariner

This is the crème dele crème of Swiss diving watches, and is by far in a way one of the very best products you can buy, period.  If you are looking for a really phenomenal gift for a husband, father, or son who loves to dive this is the gift to boot.  Trust me when I tell you, the Submariner is the watch to beat in the quality department.  The chronometer has COSC certification, it is about forty millimeters, is made of high quality steel, boasts a black, rotatable bezel, has a sapphire crystal, and a black face and dial.  The Submariner is waterproof to three hundred meters or one thousand feet, is self winding and has a flip lock bracelet.  The Submariner has been a big name in diving watches since it came out in nineteen fifty three.  The Rolex website doesn’t say how much this bad boy is going to put you back, but if you are lucky enough to receive one as a gift from say, your lovely wife, know that you are going to be rubbing her shoulders for a pretty long while.

Swiss Army Dive Watches Offered

This company runs the Dive Master 500 line in watches, and there are six in this line to choose from.  Two of the six have a stainless watch band, and the other four have a rubber strap band.  Boasting Swiss analog quartz movement, and there are two with black faces, two with white faces, and one which has a blue face, and one with an orange face.  The models in this line start at about five hundred dollars and end up at around six hundred dollars for the ones with a stainless steel band.   They, like the Citizen, feature luminescent hands for added visibility underwater and have a three year manufacturer’s warrantee, ensuring that you enjoy your watch for a long time.  They all have a screw down case back and are good for diving up to over sixteen hundred feet, or five hundred meters which is very impressive.  Swiss diving watches are a big name in diving safety, and the Swiss Army company delivers this along with so many of its other reliable products offered.

If money is really an issue for you you may also want to consider some watches made in other parts of the world such as the The Citizen Professional Diver.

This is, at least in performance capability, comparable to the Submariner.  Watertight to three hundred meters (one thousand feet) this watch will never need a battery, and will be able to gather all the energy it will ever need from light it collects.  Retail price is almost three hundred dollars, but I was able to find the watch online offered on sale for about two hundred twenty dollars or so.  The case is forty four millimeters across and is highly visible while underwater.  The bracelet is a durable black rubber band, ensuring that the diver doesn’t lose the watch while out and about under water and has a five year Citizen United States warrantee.  I also really like how the hands on this watch luminescent as you are underwater, making them easier to see in compromised light situations that you may be diving in (like at home here in the Puget Sound, at least you will be able to see you are wearing a watch).  Citizen is a great watch and has been around for a long time, it is a good name to trust.

Guest Post – Bill S

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