How many Submariners have dived?
Since the Rolex Submariner is a technical watch, I would like to know in your opinion how many of these have been worn by their owner in deep water.
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Junio
A 46 years old small collector from Italy.
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~10%
SCUBA diving is popular, but not as popular as owning status symbols.
Agreed, I'd hazard a guess a fair percentage of them haven't even gotten wet let alone met a wetsuit...although if I'd forked out £15k+ for a watch not sure I'd even take it out the box 😂
I think nowadays less than 5% of the Submarinees even touch water 😅
Most likely only the Comex dive one’s
~10%
SCUBA diving is popular, but not as popular as owning status symbols.
That's way too high. Even if you include all the subby homages it'll be less than 1%. People who take diving seriously most likely use some specialist toolwatches that have no everyday appeal. I would be shocked if any of them used a submariner. There may be some rich kids out there that take a subby for waterskiing to show off on Instagram. But skubadiving?
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That's way too high. Even if you include all the subby homages it'll be less than 1%. People who take diving seriously most likely use some specialist toolwatches that have no everyday appeal. I would be shocked if any of them used a submariner. There may be some rich kids out there that take a subby for waterskiing to show off on Instagram. But skubadiving?
Depends on the time period we are talking about.
Todays Rolex Sub, you're likely right. Subs overall from 1953-2022, I suspect you're underestimating.
Rolex wasn't always just a "flex" brand, so in it's past I'm sure many more Rolex watches were actually used as tool watches.
I don't dive and I don't have a pool in my backyard either.
Depends on the time period we are talking about.
Todays Rolex Sub, you're likely right. Subs overall from 1953-2022, I suspect you're underestimating.
Rolex wasn't always just a "flex" brand, so in it's past I'm sure many more Rolex watches were actually used as tool watches.
great consideration.
I don't dive and I don't have a pool in my backyard either.
fantastic!
I'd rephrase the question to "What proportion of Rolex Subs have dived by model?" I'd expect more of the earlier ones to have been used in anger while they were 'tool watches' rather than the more modern variants which have evolved into status symbols.
I'd rephrase the question to "What proportion of Rolex Subs have dived by model?" I'd expect more of the earlier ones to have been used in anger while they were 'tool watches' rather than the more modern variants which have evolved into status symbols.
I like the concept of an evolution of a brand, of a watch and even of a watchmaker. Yours is a good way to express a fact! thank you I really appreciate it.