Casio Men's MDV106-1AV 200 M WR Black Dive Watch (MDV106-1A)

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Unlike most 300m divers, the movement is visible through a sapphire caseback, and it’s very well finished. With its no-frills aesthetic and chunky profile, it’s a good choice for outdoorsmen and adventurers who prioritize practicality above all else. Why should regular people on the street want a watch originally designed for use as a tool in the ocean’s murky depths?

This French oceanographer, inventor, and ultimate diving icon is behind a whole host of diving and scuba devices, including the Aqua Lung. In addition, this particular Submersible is 42mm, a midrange option intended to bridge the gap to consumers who have been put off by Panerai’s traditionally titanic sizing. The movement within is the Breitling 17, an ETA 2824 that’s been certified as a chronometer by the COSC. This dive watch wins at every nomination: it has a medium-sized 42mm display, is backed up by the first-rate automatic Swiss movement, and a 2-year guarantee from the manufacturer. And this particular model is no exception: a diving watch made not just to survive but to enhance subaquatic explorations.Smart dive watches like the Garmin Instinct Solar give the modern diver access to highly insightful analytics to optimize their performance and maximize the quality of their outdoor excursions.

With this analogue sports watch, you’ve got a 12/24-hour function, a day and date display at 3 o’clock, a bi-directional rotating bezel, and large indexes so you can read the time with a quick glance. Since divers require at-a-glance legibility underwater, dive watches also tend to have some of the cleanest dial designs. Admittedly, dive computers have more or less taken over the job traditionally held by diving watches—that of measuring depth and time spent in the water and using this information to plan ascents.

While likely not often purchased by actual divers, Baltic nailed the dive styling with equal amounts of vintage appeal and contemporary flair, making this one of the better looking microbrand divers on the market. Like all the best sports watches, the Instinct Solar has different apps for different activities (including swimming and surfing) and provides heart rate data and information on your blood oxygen levels. Lug Width: 21mm, Lug-to-Lug: 50mm, Water Resistance: 1,220m, Movement: Auto Rolex 3235, Crystal: Sapphire While the Rolex Submariner was originally designed for scuba diving, the Sea-Dweller was developed in collaboration with the US Navy for its SEALAB experiments in the 1960s with a critical difference compared to the standard Submariner, a helium escape valve. Made of Rolex’s unique Oystersteel alloy, the Rolex Deepsea is super corrosion-resistant and features a ceramic bezel with a luminescent display for easy reading. It’s corrosion and water-resistant, and, with its quartz movement, can be depended on for precision and accuracy.

A ‘busy’ dive watch means that its display is abundant with features a diver would appreciate having. Lug-to-Lug: 50mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Water Resistance: 200m, Movement: Auto Orient F6922, Power Reserve: 40 Hours, Crystal: Mineral The Kano is one of Orient’s newer dive watches and I view it as a cleaner, less fussy, and slightly larger version of the very popular Kamasu. Not only is harnessing renewable energy eco-friendly but it has an added advantage in that, by never opening your watch, you’ll never compromise the factory seal. With water resistance only up to 100 meters, this is a dive watch better suited to doing lengths in a swimming pool or laidback holiday snorkeling than deep-sea dives. Perhaps the most impressive feature of the upgrade is water-resistance which has been upped to the whopping 4000 meters.With its ceramic bezel, protective shield over the crown, and sapphire crystal glass, it’s pretty much unbreakable. The Longines Legend Diver is also available with an all-black PVD case and even a bronze case with a green dial, as well as in different case sizes. Their Legend Diver model is water-resistant, has an inner bezel and serves many purposes from water sports to fancy night-outs. X. Professional Diver features a sandblasted case for greater resistance against knocks and scratches, and is an ISO 6425 certified dive watch.

The Seamaster 300M is another top-of-class dive watch with a helium escape valve to protect it from helium damage. Finally, dive watches are culturally associated with a strong sense of cool, from James Bond’s Omega Seamaster, to Steve McQueen’s Rolex Submariner, all the way to the military watches worn by U.

Tissot has installed one of its most high-end movements inside the Seastar Professional 2000 — the Swatch Group-exclusive Powermatic 80, which is based on the standard ETA 2824 but as per its name boasts an increased power reserve of 80 hours, thanks mainly to a clever reduction of its balance frequency, from 28,800 to 21,600 vph. Equipped with the latest technologies available on the market, the Oris ProDiver has earned itself a safe spot as a robust and rugged dive watch. Its 100 m water resistance makes it perfect for pretty much any aquatic activity besides scuba diving, when you would be using a dive computer anyway.