Messages: 7432 Location: Iowa, USA
Registered: November 2003
Dive Watch Topic Discussion - Wish List
Wed, 02 January 2013 08:07
This topic is courtesy of one of our forum members. Thanks to Jeff Emslie for the contribution and the great list of potential future topics that he sent me.
We are just through the holiday season, a time for making wish lists. How about we make a dive watch wish list of a different kind. What watch that is not currently considered to be a diver would you like to see made as a diver? Who knows, maybe if any of the manufacturers are lurking, we might see a new dive watch introduced at Basel in 2014 (probably too late for the 2013 fair.)
I'll start. One of my favorite watches is my Omega Seamaster Pro GMT. Although it's not a "true" diver, it certainly has the chops to become one. It's essentially a Seamaster Pro with a 300 meter WR rating sans hydrogen escape valve and 60 minute timing bezel, it seems like a perfect platform for conversion to a "real" dive watch. All it would take is a clever bezel design to add a 60 minute index to the existing 24 hour index and a change in the ratchet to make it unidirectional instead of bidirectional. I could easily live without an HE valve.
The idea of a GMT diver has always appealed to me. Most of my diving takes place in a different timezone, so the GMT function would really be useful. I don't particularly like the current Seamaster offerings from Omega, but if they'd bring back the Pro GMT with some dedicated diver functionality, I think they'd have a winner.
OK, your turn.
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- Medphred