What ⌚ to wear when diving?

Well, a dive watch is what I would recommend.

Good point, but what is a suitable dive ⌚ in your view?

I should specify open water Scuba 🤿 more than likely in saltwater.

I've used my Citizen Promaster Diver the most for diving.

Patek Philippe Sky/Moon Tourbillon.

A very good choice.

I only snorkel, so both a computer and many dive watch features are not needed. Generally a high contrast sport watch with 100m WR and a screw down crown fits the bill. Also, since I don’t go often, it needs to be on the more affordable end.

Wise judgement.

These are the watches I've used for diving.

I like using them as a redundancy, but I learned using old analog gauges, dive tables, and dive wheels. I used a rental a few years ago and had no idea there were digital displays for the gauges now 😂.

Solid choices.

I don't wear a watch when I dive ;p

I do mostly scuba and I simply don't want to scratch my watches, even the cheapest.

I don’t dive but if I did I would take this one.

I would recommend avoiding dress watches. 😆

Back when I dove a lot (80s/early 90s) it was a Submariner as a backup to my dive computer. With the RIDICULOUS increase in Rolex prices, I'd dive today with my Steinharts.

Steinhart has a plethora of good choices in dive watches!

I have a close friend who's a diving instructor. In his words, if you don't have a dive computer then you don't get on the boat.

I only really have one option but it's. a good one IMO.

When diving I like to use a dive computer and as an open water tourist diver, I don’t need a back up watch.

A vintage pocket watch.

In today’s dive certifications, they don’t even teach you how to use dive tables and an analog watch to time your dives. Dive computers are affordable, reliable, and accurate, and they enable safer dives for longer periods of time than you’d get with a dive watch and dive table.

I bring a dive watch with me but really, it’s just because I like wearing it. In the event that my dive computer fails, the rest of my dive is going to be dictated by my buddy’s computer and the amount of air I have remaining - not by falling back to rely on a mechanical watch.

Guess it depends on depth and actual potential risk to safety. Beyond 100 meters, digital/computer, less than that, tool/luxury.

We all love to reminisce about history, but 60 years ago they were using the best tech available, I cannot imagine someone reading a eulogy to my kids because dad “liked analogue more”…

Just went out last weekend with this monster.

The Garmin descent mk3i.

Legend Diver. But I am gonna get a decent dive computer soon.

Any Chrono.

D as a primary and a diver (any ISO diver you like) as a back-up.

Don't bugger about with obsolete analogue jewellery, when your life depends on it of course you use a dive computer.... sorry 🤣

Unless you want to look like Arnie in Total Recall, you need a dive computer for multiple dive days. It’s not just about elapsed dive time or remaining air reserves, DCs calculate nitrogen saturation as a result of spending time at different depths, and the resulting time/depth you can spend in your next dives.

Trying to do that accurately, manually with tables and gauges would be very hard work, inaccurate, and likely reduce overall dive time due to building in an over abundance of safety contingency.

Diving is much more enjoyable if you let a dive computer do its thing, whilst you soak in the views (as well as the Nitrogen).

(However, it IS lovely having a nice dive watch on your other wrist for fun..)

Dive watches became redundant with the release of the first dive computer in 1984. They are still redundant. Watch manufacturers do not make dive watches for divers, they make them for people who like dive watches. Dive watches are jewellery. I have 12 of them and counting.I love playing with the bezel and use it for timing all sorts of things. I don’t use a dive watch for diving. I LOVE dive watches and wear one almost every day.

Ive even taken my Seiko kinetic diving salt water in Italy and that only has a push down crown .

I just saw that the Apple Watch Ultra has a depth feature and there's a dive app allowing you to use it as a dive computer..

It's honestly getting hard to avoid buying one of these bloody things.

Yes but not really.

One needs to be using an iPhone to get the full benefit, and I will not revert to iOS after Android.