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The water resistances I usually see are 30/50/100/200/300/500/1000 meters and on up. I looked up the ISO standards online, but of course they want to charge me for them. I hope to improve this section not only reflect the ISO standards, but depict the common depth ratings one is likely to find in diving watches on the market.--ExarPalantas (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The section on bezel marking is incorrect, and my edit to correct it was deleted by the original poster. The forum citation used to support the description of how a dive bezel is used is factually incorrect. JohnYVR (talk) 16:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The error under discussion isn't a point of view. The bezel on a dive watch is an elapsed time device, and does not work in the way the article states. One doesn't turn the bezel to align the planned dive time with the minute hand - one turns the bezel to align the zero mark with the minute hand, so that the minute hand tracks elapsed bottom time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnYVR (talk • contribs) 17:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Saying that the rotating bezel is only suitable for "basic diving" only is WRONG too. The bezel is a time-tracking device, that allows tracking elapsed time up to 60min (or more but then it becomes tedious). Consequently, you can very well use a rotating bezel to monitor any deco-plan set up with a continous runtime (mixed gas or not). That is in fact what is done in really technical dives. Instead of trusting a dive-computer, the dive is pre-planned, a deco-runtime is set and then followed with a time tracking device (bottm timer). Digital chronometers are very popular, but they don't usually do not have the "fail-safe function" of the uni-directional rotating bezel... So any runtime or dive up to 90min.... rotating bezel. Fast to set, easy to read, failsafe!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.49.41.6 (talk) 16:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I can see how others disagree with the elapsed-time description, and I agree, it's not right. The article says, "for 35 minutes bottom time the diver would align the 25 minute bezel-mark with the minute hand." To understand how this might get confusing, let's just use that scenario as an example. So at the start of the dive we align the 25min bezel with the minute hand, which is the easy part. Then things get confusing. As soon as the diver starts the dive, the minute hand reads "25" on the bezel, which is meaningless: "25" is neither the elapsed time (which is zero) nor the time remaining in the dive (which is 35min). It gets worse: if the 25min bezel mark is initially aligned with the minute hand as the article suggests, then after 15min under water, the minute hand would now be aligned with the 40min bezel mark. Which makes no sense either, as "40" is neither the elapsed time (15min) nor time remaining (20min). After 15 more minutes, the diver has been submerged for a total of 30min, and the minute hand would now be aligned with the 55min bezel mark. That makes even less sense! And the last thing a diver needs is confusion, right?... especially with nitrogen in his bloodstream, lol! But... if you were to INSTEAD align the minute hand with the zero bezel mark at the start of the dive, then the bezel will indicate elapsed time: the minute hand points to the 10min bezel mark after 10min submerged, 20min bezel mark after 20min submerged, and so on. --Kevin (non-diver)
I feel the remark
This article is FILLED with watch companies and inserts of several watch marks.
is a bit over the top. I cleaned up some text and links to watch companies that I feel do not harm the article, but it will be hard not to mention any watch company in an article regarding diving watches, especially if a History paragraph deals with the history of diving watches during the 1930s, 1950s, 1960s and more recent times. The Characteristics, Water resistance and Maintenance paragraphs probably contain less links to watch companies than the History paragraph and are quite technical.--Francis Flinch (talk) 11:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to rephrase the sections you do not like. You could also try to rephrase the "Watches designed for extreme water resistance" sections yourself. The section does however contain information that can be interpreted as critical such as:
For your peace of mind (but this does not belong in the article). Lots of modern day saturation divers do not wear watches on the job. They have a surface support team that can inform them regarding everything that has to do with time if the need arises. Professional non-surface supported divers like dive masters, and military and police divers often opt to use cheap ISO 6425 conform watches, since they work in environments where watches can be easily scratched up/damaged. Why should a professional diver or organisation (without external commercial stimuli) invest in expensive (back-up) tools if cheaper alternatives are available?--Francis Flinch (talk) 07:56, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The information regarding the watches used by diving professionals comes from personal observations and contacts with people from the diving industry. Such information can not be used in Wikipedia. I knew/know retired saturation divers/dive masters who wear (for sentimental reasons) vintage "expensive watches" once issued to them. Servicing these vintage watches generally is possible and rather expensive, but they can often be restored to an as good as new condition. More affordable watches like Casio G-Shock Frogman, Citizen, Seiko, etc. have become popular amongst active (non-surface supported) diving professionals as back-up tools. Remind these people are often busy as "underwater construction workers" doing jobs like welding, etc. On land you will also rarely encounter welders, plumbers, etc. wearing expensive watches during work. There are of course still active professional divers who wear expensive watches for their personal pleasure and diving companies with (commercial) ties to manufacturers of expensive watches.--Francis Flinch (talk) 10:18, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Since the official Rolex site uses the hyphenated form, "Sea-Dweller", I think we should refer to this watch by the maker's nomenclature[1]. --RexxS (talk) 03:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Parts of this Wiki are complete rubbish.
In the depth rating table it implies that there are different dive watch requirements for “skin diving” and “Scuba Diving”. This is rubbish.
People read this sort of rubbish and believe it. It is dangerous.
The whole article looks like a non diving (or even swimming) schoolboy took extracts from watch manufacturer advertisments.
This article needs fixing or removing, before someone dies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.91.224 (talk) 13:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Am very surprised neither the Zlatoust deep sea diver watch nor the very popular Vostok Amphibia merit nary a mention.
The Amphibia's have a dedicated claimed rate of 200m but during a mock submarine rescue exercise the Amphibia was found to survive intact to 800m. There is also a small range of 300m Amphibia's.
As for the Zlatoust, some are rated 600/700m and some rated up to 1000m. Very rudimentary construction with 4-5mm plate glass crystal, thick and heavy body construction, thick rubber seals and thick double O rings on the massive canteen crown.
92.25.27.167 (talk) 16:27, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]