New Watch

What do you wear for an everyday watch?

My beloved Omega Seamaster Professional has been with me for 20 years. It now needs major service, which would cost almost as the watch did in 1990. While I use a computer for diving, I really like wearing a diving watch. The Rolex Submariner and Deap Sea watches are far to pricey for my budget. I was also smitten by a new Ball watch called the Spacemaster but would rather put that $2700 into a new housing.

In the end I searched a variety of watch forums and found a brand called Debaufre. In most of the world they are known as Steinhart/Grovana. The model I ordered is 42mm across, just a bit larger than the original sub. It uses an ETA 2824-2 movement, has a sapphire crystal and goes to 300M. The watch is fairly heavy, about 7 oz (250 g?). Behold the Debaufre Ocean 1:

Just arrived from Switzerland

What do you wear for an everyday watch?

Whoa Eagle,

I have gone the other way. After 16 years, I have retired my St. Moritz Format 2 from diving, but I wear it as my every day time piece. The case and band are titanium and therefore much lighter that S/S. When travelling, I try to keep as low a profile as possible; cheap watches and no jewelry. I set my Casio Fisherman to local date / time and log., lat. and GMT offset. In addition to phase of the moon (just look up fool), I have sun rise and set times.

Bob

I wear a Citizen Promaster Aqualand in Titanium (to 200m), very good value for money

No worries about traveling with the new watch. The cost was $450. It doesn't say Rolex anywhere. On the other hand, I use very plain, boring luggage.

The Citizens are nice dive watches. I used to have an Aqualand with a yellowish face that I wore for cold water dives. There was no way to get the Omega's bracelet anywhere near large enough to fit around a 7mm wetsuit plus diving mitts. Unfortunately I lost the watch about 10 years ago.

Whoa Eagle,

I have gone the other way. After 16 years, I have retired my St. Moritz Format 2 from diving, but I wear it as my every day time piece. The case and band are titanium and therefore much lighter that S/S. When travelling, I try to keep as low a profile as possible; cheap watches and no jewelry. I set my Casio Fisherman to local date / time and log., lat. and GMT offset. In addition to phase of the moon (just look up fool), I have sun rise and set times.

Bob

I have been looking at dive watches and have been looking closely at the Seiko 200m Dive Watches. But, there are so many models and choices it is hard to narrow any single one down!

I will be watching this thread or any others discussing watches.

Thanks,

If you want depth functions, the Citizen Aqualands are great. They have an analog Eco-Drive model that's really nice, as well.

For more everyday wear, combined with straight dive watch functions, it's hard to beat the Citizen Eco-Drive models that are 200m or better depth rated. I really like the eco drive models since you never have to worry about a battery change killing your nice watch 5 years from now.

For purely land wear, however, the sky (or your wallet) is the only limit!