Dive Watches

The original Superman dive watch, which featured a unique bezel-locking mechanism, gets a modern update that maintains its classic lines.

Seiko and Japanese streetwear brand BAPE joined forces on a camo-dialed diver — the catch is it’s only available in Japan and online.

For their second release of the year, Oris adds a refreshing new take on the dive watch for their popular and affordable Aquis range.

Oris releases its first timepiece of 2019 — an oversized dive watch developed in concert with a professional offshore diver.

Dive watches combine legibility, ruggedness and stopwatch-like functions in an often affordable package.

Based on a classic style from 1959.

And a dial inspired by a sea urchin skeleton.

We spent a day in New York with Zodiac’s Swiss Group Manager for Product Development and Texas-based Brand Director to chat about the Zodiac archive and what’s to come for this beloved brand.

The latest IWC Aquatimer is the most highly evolved one yet.

In a sea of dive watches, the Tudor Pelagos is an apex predator.

You don’t have to be a diver to appreciate a watch like the Super Sea Wolf 68.

A sure sign that I am getting old: a watch I once bought new, on the cusp of adulthood, is now considered vintage.

A few days of diving with the Hublot Oceanographic 1000 proved that it’s a big watch full of small details — which should garner new respect for a brand with its fair share of critics.

Blue watches are enjoying their moment, and whether you’re a pilot, a diver, a sailor or just looking for a little color on your wrist, here are the 10 best.

The Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M is a big, heavy, oddly shaped throwback to a time gone by.

For the 11th installment of our Timekeeping Selects series with Analog/Shift, we’re presenting an OMEGA Seamaster Professional “SHOM” ($3,500), designed for the study of French coasts in 1973 by the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine.

Wearing a $20,000 watch with a white strap onboard a Great Lakes wreck diving charter is inviting ridicule. But duty called, and I strapped the Linde Werdelin Oktopus MoonLite ($20,000, limited to 59 pieces) over my drysuit cuff, clipped on the Reef digital dive module and waddled to the back of the boat.

The Superocean Chronograph Steelfish ($5,700) is Breitling’s latest addition to its dive watch lineup.

ISO 6425 is an international standard that spells out in great and unambiguous detail the criteria for what can be called a “diver’s watch”. Aside from the obvious water resistance requirement (100 meters, by the way), there are rules for legibility, salt water resistance and more.

Comparing two great depth gauge dive watches: the top shelf IWC Aquatimer Deep Three and an ingenious alternative from ORIS that works without any moving parts.