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Thanks for the question. My experience as a diver was almost all in the Great Lakes with some diving done in the caves of norther Florida. My Great Lakes diving was done almost exclusively on deeper shipwrecks, many times in the interior of the wreck. Therefore, my requirements would be more stringent than someone diving in a tropical paradise. What I would want would be a large, clear, and uncluttered face and big bold hands.
The Divergraph, while a beautiful watch, would not be a diver I would depend on because the dial is busy, the hands are too fine and the bezel moves too freely. Note, the diver in my avatar is a Marathon TSAR. A great watch but, really not a dedicated diver, IMO, which is anything but humble. Dial too busy and hands too small. The Marathon SAR, though, looks like it would be a good diver but I don't have one.
The Oceantimer would be more desirable to me because the hands are bolder, the dial is cleaner and. It just lacks some size. To me, the lume issue, while it's always nice to have, for the kind of diving I did would be less important because I always brought my own sunshine in the form of redundant, powerful lights.
The bezel of a good diver should be fairly difficuolt to move. More like the Oceantimer and less like the Divergraph.
Diving equipment takes a terrible beating and it's nearly impossible to baby it. Therefore, obviously, the diving watch should be rugged.
For me, one of the best divers available today is the Citizen Eco-Zilla or Auto-Zilla, at least among those I have. If I could change that watch, just a smidgen, I'd enlarge the face a little and maybe have the dial set a little less deep. Some say a diving watch should be an automatic because of concerns the battery could give out on a quartz in the middle of a diving operation. That's no doubt, a valid concern but it never concerned me because essential equipment like lights, watches, knives, etc., were always carried in duplicate where practical.
Keep in mind, I'm an old guy and diving has changed a great deal since I was active. My thoughts are based on experience from 25-40 years ago. I understand that today, dive timing operations are handled by dive computers....imagine, underwater computers.
Also, as Marcello said, in diving, sometimes less is more. Try to keep things simple.
Hope my input helps.
Last edited on Sat Jun 7th, 2008 10:52 pm by Willieboy