Questioned features

24 hour bezel on a watch with no GMT movement.

But you have to admit... Saying you have a cyclops on your wrist has a ring to it, lol.

GMT on a dive watch. Why?

Open case backs on any watch. Very cool but totally useless.

I don’t think open case backs are designed for function. It is purely aesthetic.

As for the chronograph/dive watch, that’s the Rolex Daytona. They are used to time things at sea. Would you take your 30mm water resistant watch sailing?

And the GMT diver is so you can keep time at the office in NY while diving in Hawaii.

The screw down crown simply keeps you from breaking crown on accident. It doesn’t add water resistance.

Hand wound perpetual calendar…keep your thumb and index finger in shape.

I don’t know what a bubble window is.

Bubble window is cyclops window on the date feature.

I'm going to go after all of these:

1. I would guess 99% of all dive watches sold never go deeper than a middle aged, overweight bald white dude can get at the Holiday Inn swimming pool. (I'm a middle aged, overweight bald white dude, and I don't swim at all, and own a dive watch). Sometimes the bubble crystal just looks cool.

2. Threaded crowns don't snap off when you catch them on the edge of something. I had some cheap Timex knockabout for work. It never saw water. Snapped the crown off. I can't remember which came first; a month with 30 days or daylight savings time, but that was the end of it.

3. Dive bezels work under water, chronographs on land. Sometimes you need both? But only want to own one watch? Truth be told, anyone who dives uses a dive computer. The watch, some will argue, is a backup for the dive computer, but dive computers rarely fail, and people rarely dive alone, so you'd have to have a catastrophic event where multiple dive computers failed at the same time or a rare event where someone dives nearly exclusively solo and even then, statistically speaking, you'll likely never need a dive bezel watch as a backup to your computer.

4. Any perpetual calendar not linked to satellites, or battery powered, is silly? But the movements sure are pretty...

And I'll add one; "Hi all, how many of you have seen ... a watch and scratched your head asking... why?" because we all have smart phones linked to satellites which, let's be honest, we already have with us and actually use to set our watches with? I don't have a chronograph diver, but I did once, and my current diver is used to help me cook, time parking meters, manage a few meetings related things, and it's never been deeper than my kitchen sink, but I live in the Pacific Northwest, so it gets wet a lot. And I interact with a lot of people and a watch lets me check the time without checking my phone which is considerably less rude than looking at your phone because it can be done covertly and doesn't make your conversation partner think you're more interested in a social media or email notification than them.

And I like watches. End of argument.

Love the cyclops always have. To be honest I like all “useless” features on the antiquated and useless instrument we call a watch.

Bracelets that don’t taper. I love the look of the Seamaster 300M but there bracelets suck. I’ve had a couple of them and it drove me crazy had to get rid of them.

Um, no. It’s useless TO YOU. The Ploprof you have pictured there was specifically designed for professional divers.

Nop useless to probably 99% of common people. Remember we are not the majority we are the minority. Most common people wear apple watches which outsells most watch brands. In 2020 analysts estimate around 115 million apple watches sold. Then on top of that peel that onion and people buy fashion watches, luxury watches etc etc. Meaning saturation diving is probably 000.1% of people that need 200m WR and above.

As Wolverine would put it, Cyclops is a d!ck. Not normally in favor of home wreckers but Wolvie be Mr. Steal-Yo-Girl.

Big X-Men fan myself, but 2 alpha's fighting over a ginger is truly fiction

I would agree for the general public, I think James Cameron would disagree, 😂.

I don’t think open case backs are designed for function. It is purely aesthetic.

This was my daily watch for almost 20 years. I often used the chronograph and occasionally for diving, but never at the same time.

Really? Jean Grey is literally 🔥

Totally agree. These were purpose built for saturation divers. The fact that watch enthusiasts have latched in to these professional tools makes them useless to you, not to professional divers.