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Dive Watches

Created for diving professionals, dive watches boast high water resistance, highly legible dials and help tell divers how long they’ve been submerged for via a rotational bezel. They’re loved for their distinctive and robust design, making them one of the most popular watch genres around.

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A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00614 274329

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00614

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
£8,225
incl. import taxes & duties
Montblanc 1858 Geosphere 125567 257017

Montblanc
1858 Geosphere
125567

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£3,875
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00692 243668

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00692

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
£7,300
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 116610 LNXXTEST 273750

Rolex
Submariner
116610 LNXXTEST

Box
Papers
Year 2011
Product Location
£10,950
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 116610 LNXXTEST 269360

Rolex
Submariner
116610 LNXXTEST

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
£9,945
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 116610 LNXXTEST 272420

Rolex
Submariner
116610 LNXXTEST

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£9,795
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 232946
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
£5,320
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay M79250BA-0001 256916

Tudor
Black Bay
M79250BA-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
£2,635
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 3 Days Acciaio PAM00721 237597
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir 3 Days Acciaio
PAM00721

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
£5,800
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 269629

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
£5,220
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Explorer 124270 281174
Manufacturer's Warranty

Rolex
Explorer
124270

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
£6,875
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Explorer 124270 275134
Manufacturer's Warranty

Rolex
Explorer
124270

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£6,720
incl. import taxes & duties
Omega Seamaster 300 233.30.41.21.01.001 274309

Omega
Seamaster 300
233.30.41.21.01.001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£3,990
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW390212 265846

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW390212

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
£8,085
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 14060M 261874

Rolex
Submariner
14060M

Box
Papers
Year 2003
Product Location
£8,380
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Sea-Dweller 16600 262953
Vintage

Rolex
Sea-Dweller
16600

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
£7,820
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 126610 LV 281175
Manufacturer's Warranty

Rolex
Submariner
126610 LV

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£13,905
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Yacht-Master 116622 233083

Rolex
Yacht-Master
116622

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£14,790
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay Chrono M79360N-0001 274371
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Black Bay Chrono
M79360N-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£3,585
incl. import taxes & duties
Tag Heuer Carrera CV2A1R.BA0799 273763

Tag Heuer
Carrera
CV2A1R.BA0799

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£3,075
incl. import taxes & duties
Tag Heuer Carrera CV2A1R.BA0799 268898

Tag Heuer
Carrera
CV2A1R.BA0799

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
£2,980
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling Super Avenger II A13371 248832

Breitling
Super Avenger II
A13371

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
£3,395
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Eilean PAM01243 259722

Panerai
Radiomir Eilean
PAM01243

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£5,525
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Manual PAM00514 239379

Panerai
Radiomir Manual
PAM00514

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
£4,325
incl. import taxes & duties
Omega Seamaster Diver 300m - James Bond Edition 210.92.42.20.01.001 274311
Manufacturer's Warranty

Omega
Seamaster Diver 300m - James Bond Edition
210.92.42.20.01.001

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
£6,455
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Deepsea 116660 253615

Rolex
Deepsea
116660

Box
Papers
Year 2009
Product Location
£10,065
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 114060 280903

Rolex
Submariner
114060

Box
Papers
Year 2007
Product Location
£7,750
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Oyster Perpetual 114200 279237

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual
114200

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
£5,550
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex GMT Master 16750 258446
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master
16750

Box
Papers
Year 1984
Product Location
£12,695
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00671 268019
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00671

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£22,360
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00671 248701
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00671

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£22,360
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00671 259450
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00671

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£22,360
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00671 258173
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00671

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£23,325
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9068670 264910
Manufacturer's Warranty

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9068670

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
£5,800
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00615 263058

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00615

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
£8,170
incl. import taxes & duties
Hublot Big Bang 401.CX.0129.VR.BHB 279679
Limited Edition

Hublot
Big Bang
401.CX.0129.VR.BHB

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
£11,795
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW357001 277938

IWC
Ingenieur
IW357001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£3,480
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Luna Rossa PAM01038 271150

Panerai
Luminor Luna Rossa
PAM01038

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£15,550
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00984 273588

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00984

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£11,110
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor 1926 M91450-0004 259559

Tudor
1926
M91450-0004

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£1,640
incl. import taxes & duties
Tag Heuer Carrera CV2010.BA0794 282575

Tag Heuer
Carrera
CV2010.BA0794

Box
Papers
Year 2010
Product Location
£1,590
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling SuperOcean Automatic 44 N17376 281186

Breitling
SuperOcean Automatic 44
N17376

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£3,950
incl. import taxes & duties

Dive Watches

History

The dive watch, a symbol of adventure and resilience, has a rich and exciting history that stretches back to 1927 when Rolex launched its Oyster model. This innovative watch, with its screw-down case and crown, is considered the first fully water-resistant wristwatch.

Famously, it was worn that year by a young swimmer called Mercedes Gleitz who was the first woman to swim the English Channel. To advertise the feat—and the capabilities of its latest watch—Rolex bought the front page of the most widely read British newspaper of the time, the Daily Mail.

Rolex went on to supply movements to Panerai, who developed the dive watch further with the specialist timepieces they made for the frogmen of the Italian navy in the late 1930s. These early dive watches had a water resistance of 30 metres—unimpressive by today’s standards which requires a dive watch to have a minimum water resistance of 100 metres.

By the mid-1950s, scuba-diving was a popular worldwide pastime due to the invention of the aqualung a decade earlier. This led to a spate of similar-looking dive watches like Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms, which featured the first rotating bezel—enabling divers to accurately measure immersion time—and the Rolex Submariner. Both these watches were water-resistant to 100 metres, while the Zodiac Sea Wolf, released shortly afterwards, doubled this to 200 metres.

In the decades since, dive watches have become more and more capable of withstanding extreme water pressure. In 2012, Rolex launched its Deepsea Challenge model which boasted an incredible 12,000 metres water resistance. In the same year it was attached to a submersible that Hollywood director James Cameron piloted to the deepest part of the world’s oceans—the Marianas Trench—to a depth of 10,898 metres, surviving the ordeal unscathed.

Key features

Today, dive watches continue to push boundaries, incorporating advanced technologies and materials such as helium escape valves, luminescent dials, and enhanced water resistance.

What sets dive watches apart from other timepieces? Let's look at what makes a dive watch unique, designed specifically for the rigours of underwater exploration.

Firstly, their exceptional water resistance is critical. Unlike standard watches, dive watches can withstand the extreme conditions of deep-sea diving, with a water resistance rating of at least 100 metres and many capable of depths up to 300 metres or much more.

Additional features of a dive watch include a unidirectional rotating bezel for tracking immersion time, bold luminous markers and hands for good visibility in murky conditions, and a helium escape valve to prevent damage during decompression. Most dive watches don’t have the latter as they are only of use in saturation diving when a diver spends time in a decompression chamber.

Some diving watches even incorporate helium-filled cases and built-in depth gauges, allowing divers to monitor their current depth without the need for additional equipment. These features make dive watches a useful tool for underwater exploration, although in an age of wearable dive computers they are more often now used as a back-up option.

One thing every mechanical dive watch must have is a constantly running seconds hand, or some kind of display indicating the watch is running that can be viewed in total darkness.

The science of water Resistance in dive watches

Water resistance is a vital feature of a dive watch. Special seals and gaskets prevent water infiltration, while robust materials like stainless steel or titanium ensure durability and resistance to corrosion. Rigorous testing verifies a dive watch's ability to withstand different pressures and temperatures, simulating the conditions encountered underwater.

Water resistance is measured in metres or bar units, indicating the depth to which the watch can be submerged safely. It's worth noting that factors such as water temperature and movement can affect a diving watch's performance underwater.

Popular dive watch models

The Rolex Submariner is a classic choice, renowned for its robustness and precision, and capable of withstanding depths of up to 300 metres. It was famously worn by James Bond until the 1990s when he swapped one dive watch for another: the equally iconic Omega Seamaster.

Other enduring models that are as timeless as they are stylish include the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, Breitling Superocean, Panerai Luminor and IWC Aquatimer. Fellow Swiss brands Tudor and TAG Heuer offer more affordable choices like the Black Bay and Aquaracer, respectively.

At Watchfinder, we offer a vast selection of pre-owned luxury dive watches from all of the aforementioned brands, from Rolex to IWC, catering to every budget and taste. Explore our collection and discover the exceptional craftsmanship and performance of these remarkable watches.

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