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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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The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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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 Radiomir Venti PAM02020 218519
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€9,295
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Tre Giorni PAM01334 271878

Panerai
Radiomir Tre Giorni
PAM01334

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
€5,620
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 8 Giorni PAM00915 268550

Panerai
Luminor 8 Giorni
PAM00915

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€4,800
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor 1926 M91350-0002 278609

Tudor
1926
M91350-0002

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€1,320
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 201805
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€7,555
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 232946
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
€6,115
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM01209 245513

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01209

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
€8,395
incl. import taxes & duties
Chopard Grand Prix 168570-3002 199534

Chopard
Grand Prix
168570-3002

Box
Papers
Year 2011
Product Location
€4,315
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00692 244267

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00692

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€5,760
Panerai Submersible PAM01389 244128

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01389

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€6,310
Panerai Submersible PAM00968 243885

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00968

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€13,825
Girard Perregaux Laureato 81060-21-492-FH3A 274276
Limited Edition

Girard Perregaux
Laureato
81060-21-492-FH3A

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€12,830
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 269629

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
€6,005
incl. import taxes & duties
Chopard Grand Prix 168568-9001 282842

Chopard
Grand Prix
168568-9001

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€3,380
Piaget Polo G0A34002 236943

Piaget
Polo
G0A34002

Box
Papers
Year 2010
Product Location
€8,635
incl. import taxes & duties
Ulysse Nardin Diver collection 8163-175-7M/93 279796

Ulysse Nardin
Diver collection
8163-175-7M/93

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€3,190
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 243979

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€6,020
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 255589

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
€7,360
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Otto Giorni PAM01348 269766
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Otto Giorni
PAM01348

Box
Papers
Year 2023
€8,565
Panerai Submersible PAM00968 244354

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00968

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€12,505
Chopard Mille Miglia 168571-3009 280844
Limited Edition

Chopard
Mille Miglia
168571-3009

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€4,100
Panerai Radiomir Tre Giorni PAM01334 274342

Panerai
Radiomir Tre Giorni
PAM01334

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€5,950
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Eilean PAM01243 262691

Panerai
Radiomir Eilean
PAM01243

Box
Papers
Year 2023
€6,440
Panerai Submersible PAM01389 244708

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01389

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€6,255
Panerai Radiomir California PAM00931 244413
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir California
PAM00931

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€4,665
Panerai Radiomir California PAM00448 244038
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir California
PAM00448

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€5,125
Panerai Submersible PAM01305 277593

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01305

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€6,160
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 244331

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€4,940
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 224159
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
€7,795
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00968 198585

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00968

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
€19,185
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Automatic PAM00388 265387

Panerai
Radiomir Automatic
PAM00388

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€3,415
Panerai Luminor Blu Mare PAM01085 274318

Panerai
Luminor Blu Mare
PAM01085

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€5,290
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00692 251100

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00692

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€7,795
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00372 276441

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00372

Box
Papers
Year 2012
€6,225
Panerai Luminor Marina Carbotech PAM01661 230216

Panerai
Luminor Marina Carbotech
PAM01661

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€9,895
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00858 268241
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00858

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
€14,390
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 218967
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
€9,235
incl. import taxes & duties
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 15710ST.OO.A027CA.01 269088

Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak Offshore
15710ST.OO.A027CA.01

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€27,020
Panerai Luminor Luna Rossa PAM01036 283210

Panerai
Luminor Luna Rossa
PAM01036

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€6,525
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00662 237595
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00662

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
€5,750
incl. import taxes & duties
Girard Perregaux Laureato 81070-21-002-FB6A 251793
Limited Edition

Girard Perregaux
Laureato
81070-21-002-FB6A

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€9,475
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00984 273588

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00984

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€12,775
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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