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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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Tudor Pelagos FXD M25717N-0001 280520
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Pelagos FXD
M25717N-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
CHF 4’220
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible QuarantaQuattro PAM01287 254050

Panerai
Submersible QuarantaQuattro
PAM01287

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 9’935
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay Chrono M79363N-0003 281884
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Black Bay Chrono
M79363N-0003

Box
Papers
Year 2022
CHF 1’420
Tudor Pelagos M25707B/21-0001 276934
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Pelagos
M25707B/21-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
CHF 3’435
incl. import taxes & duties
Girard Perregaux Laureato 81010-32-3081-1CX 264727
Manufacturer's Warranty

Girard Perregaux
Laureato
81010-32-3081-1CX

Box
Papers
Year 2023
CHF 22’770
Tudor Black Bay 36 M79640-0002 275457
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Black Bay 36
M79640-0002

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
CHF 3’605
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay 58 M79012M-0001 281506
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Black Bay 58
M79012M-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
CHF 3’625
incl. import taxes & duties
Tissot PR 100 T101.617.11.041.00 273280

Tissot
PR 100
T101.617.11.041.00

Box
Papers
Year 2022
CHF 325
Tudor Black Bay GMT M79830RB-0001 279233

Tudor
Black Bay GMT
M79830RB-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 2’890
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay GMT M79830RB-0001 270064

Tudor
Black Bay GMT
M79830RB-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 2’970
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Luna Rossa PAM01038 271150

Panerai
Luminor Luna Rossa
PAM01038

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 17’260
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Black Bay M79210CNU-0001 275914
Manufacturer's Warranty

Tudor
Black Bay
M79210CNU-0001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 2’860
incl. import taxes & duties
Perrelet Turbine A1067/2 276604

Perrelet
Turbine
A1067/2

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 1’935
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Quaranta PAM01372 274934

Panerai
Luminor Quaranta
PAM01372

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
CHF 6’605
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Tre Giorni PAM01334 271878

Panerai
Radiomir Tre Giorni
PAM01334

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
CHF 5’420
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM01074 209456

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01074

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 10’830
Tudor 1926 M91350-0002 278609

Tudor
1926
M91350-0002

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 1’275
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 269629

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
CHF 5’795
incl. import taxes & duties
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 26202AU.OO.D002CA.01 219934
Limited Edition

Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak Offshore
26202AU.OO.D002CA.01

Box
Papers
Year 2011
CHF 2’705
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 255589

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 7’105
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 245545

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 7’105
incl. import taxes & duties
Girard Perregaux Laureato 81015-11-001-11A 272911

Girard Perregaux
Laureato
81015-11-001-11A

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
CHF 24’265
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 254278

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 6’425
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Eilean PAM01243 231260

Panerai
Radiomir Eilean
PAM01243

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 5’160
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00441 280372

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00441

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 6’830
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00372 276441

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00372

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
CHF 6’010
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 183905
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 3’130
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 245549

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 7’105
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 245544

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 6’425
incl. import taxes & duties
Girard Perregaux Chrono Hawk 49970-11-131-11A 268259

Girard Perregaux
Chrono Hawk
49970-11-131-11A

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 8’055
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 254285

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
CHF 7’105
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM00984 273588

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00984

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 12’330
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 8 days PAM00992 214637

Panerai
Radiomir 8 days
PAM00992

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 760
Girard Perregaux Chrono Hawk 49970-34-132-BB6A 232949

Girard Perregaux
Chrono Hawk
49970-34-132-BB6A

Box
Papers
Year 2017
CHF 5’120
Panerai Submersible PAM00968 185502

Panerai
Submersible
PAM00968

Box
Papers
Year 2020
CHF 11’265
Panerai Radiomir 8 days PAM00201 242423
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir 8 days
PAM00201

Box
Papers
Year 2009
CHF 14’780
Panerai Radiomir 1938 PAM00232 221730
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir 1938
PAM00232

Box
Papers
Year 2007
CHF 380
Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM02020 177873
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Venti
PAM02020

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 3’175
Piaget Polo G0A41003 265557

Piaget
Polo
G0A41003

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 7’815
Panerai Ferrari FER00015 273703
Limited Edition

Panerai
Ferrari
FER00015

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
CHF 9’210
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir Manual PAM00514 240573
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir Manual
PAM00514

Box
Papers
Year 2018
CHF 4’940
Panerai Radiomir Manual PAM00790 282243

Panerai
Radiomir Manual
PAM00790

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 5’335
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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