Dive Watches

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.

Vintage watches are flying off the shelves right now, but the Squale 101 Atmos carries out its heritage look without pretense.

The Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Galapagos Islands” ($11,100) shares more with theCharles Darwin Foundation than donations. It’s a prime example of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — in Aquatimers.

DOXA and the Cousteaus have a hell of a history together.

For centuries, man has found countless ways to send ships to the bottom of the sea. Since the advent of scuba technology, we’ve found ways to explore them.

Last fall, we featured the Pontos S, a sleek dive chronograph. While the chronograph’s design could likely dress up with the best of them, the busy dial gives off more of a sporty feeling.