Bezel Action Battle Royale

The Tudor 60 clock bezels on the Pelagos and black bay are up there!

You are right, I agree! Sorry I meant to put Tudor as one of the choices, but I had a brain freeze as my picture had a Seiko on it. It’s fixed now.

I have many dive watches, few watches have worse bezel action than Omega.

Wow, really? Which Seamaster?

I Love playing with my Black Bays bezel

Literally any SMP 300. I own one, know lots of folks who own them, and one can read any review, the bezel action is horrible and when actually used in salty conditions, it is almost unusable.

That break my heart. I'm was not the biggest fan of Seamasters but always thought they were top notch. Do it get gunked up?

The action on both my Seikos is better than my Omega.

Check out Andrew Morgan’s last vid comparison to the Black Bay. He is not the only one to comment on it, but does a nice break down. In my view, the nature of the scalloped bezel makes it hard to turn to begin with, but add salt or sand to the mix, it can become challenging.

The SMP is a cool watch and I love wearing, it is just not a particularly good dive watch.

Definitely not Omega.

Probably the best bezel action I’ve come across on an Omega is the X-33 Skywalker - and that’s nothing to write home about

Anyone but omega! Had Rolex and Tag and CWC this year all been good. Omega sucks.

That said I prefer the watch overall. Just don’t buy it for the bezel action!

Nodus. The brand utilizes ceramic ball bearings with its diving bezels (similar to some of the brands noted above) as opposed to the more popular click-spring mechanism. A ball bearing bezel produces a more satisfying feel and sound. See this article if interested in bezel construction: https://www.everestbands.com/blogs/bezel-barrel/three-types-of-watch-bezel-construction

Ouch, hurts to admit but the bezel action on my Seamaster 300 heritage is shite, nowhere near on par with my Willards.

Doesn't bother me 90% of the time as I've never used one to time anything in 30 years, but the slightest knock & it moves. Id prefer it if it was fixed solid as I don't use it. 🤣

Still my Grail tho & love it more everyday 😁👍

SeaQ has the best I've found. Crisp, no-nonsense feel

Chiming in… The bezels in the SMP ARE a harder to turn, but it’s partly because you have to grip them differently. I find if you hold it with your fingers at the 2 o’clock and 8 o’clock and push down a little when you turn, it moves fine. Hard to do in the water though, which is ironic since it’s a diver!

I’ve had surprisingly bad experience with Omega, Longines, Hamilton, and Tissot bezel action. But I’ve always liked my TAGs bezel. Also liked the Breitling colt I was looking at last year. I’d love to try a Tudor bezel, but I’ve only ever handled the non-diver BB models.

Different price range for sure, but the bezel on the Spinnaker Hass is like butter, and has the most satisfying 120 clicks

I was going to write the same thing. I love my SMP 300 GMT, but the bezel action is awful. Newer ones are little better.

Tudor has the best of any I’ve tried by a wide margin, even compared to big brother Rolex.

I've never tried a Rolex bezel but I've tried Tudor, Omega and Breitling and I'd give the very slight edge to Breitling over Tudor but everyone is different...

My recently acquired Sea Quartz 30 is worse. I do love it's looks though 😜

I smell a contest! :-)

As a dive watch aficionado, the best I've turned has to be the Marathon SAR

Honestly, you have to try it. It's so flimsy I'm almost inclined to think Momentum did it on purpose to emulate the vintage quartz watches that had these kind of issues.

Brietling superocean heritage, hands down

Very cool!

Yeah. There are probably other brands that have nice bezel action, Seiko is pretty good, Omega reminds me of it. But of those listed, Rolex is by far the smoothest.

I do not have (or ever will have) any of the watches listed, but the bezel action on my Baltic Aquascaphe it’s a delight.

I can only speak for what I have experienced so far. But the best yet for me is the Pelagos LHD. So crisp, no back play whatsoever, best gripping bezel due to the coin edge and slight overhang over the watch case and the vaunted 12 o'clock click which takes a little more pressure to turn from. 😉

I feel like the results of the votes just salitifies the quality of Tudor.

I know this is silly to say compared to the other brands listed but my pagani design bb58 has one of the crispiest clickiest bezel actions I’ve ever encountered.