How to find a diving watch suiting my requirements

Some divers are going to wear the watch not just for diving purposes but in a daily manner. If this is the case you might take the overall "look and feel" into account. This factor is even more important the more expensive the watch is. Most of the people do not want to spend multiple thousands of dollars for a diver watch which is placed in a drawer most of the year.

Dive Depth

Like mentioned earlier it is very essential that you define your "diving type". If you are just a hobby diver and not diving below 20m, you probably do not need a LUMINOX DEEP DIVE 1511 which has been tested up/down to 1.625 feet. In this case the much cheaper CITIZEN ECO-DRIVE PROMASTER DEPTH METER CHRONOGRAPH with a depth of 125 feet might suit your demands perfectly.

Movement

For many people the movement is very important. The movement is like the engine of the watch and drives functions like timekeeping. general you could say, the better the movement of the watch, the better the quality of the watch in terms of accuracy and lifetime. There are watches with a swiss movement, Japanese movement and many others. More often the swiss movement is kind of a quality factor. According to wikipedia, a watch movement is considered Swiss if:

the movement has been assembled in Switzerland and,

the movement has been inspected by the manufacturer in Switzerland and;

the components of Swiss manufacture account for at least 50 percent of the total value, without taking into account the cost of assembly.

(Besides the origin of the movement, there are some differences concerning the mechanism of the movement explained here in detail).

Glass

Most valuable watches use scratch resistant sapphire glass. However new generation outdoor watch like the LG G Watch or the Pebble intent to use corning gorilla glass. By the way, almost every smartphone today used corning gorilla glass as well. Sapphire glass tends to be more resistant than gorilla glass and is named the second hardest material in the world after, of course, diamond. More resistant means, that – in case of a watch – it is more likely that the glass will not scratch, break or anything like this. As distinct from smartphones, watches are on your wrist and most often not inside your pocket; so naturally your watch will more likely scratch on tables, collide while walking and so on. Some vendors even use some anti-reflective coating – also known as AR Coating) to their watches. In simple terms the principle of AR Coating is to put one or more layers of material with a low reflection index somewhere in or behind the sapphire glass.

Case Material

Not only movement and glass a argument of taste.

However, some watch owners might prefer the digital display over the analog one due to the fact that they think the display is to cluttered or fussy. In terms of visibility at night digital displays are visible very well of course, but most of analog watches do have a shiny dial as well.

Concerning the Invicta Diver Watches Comparison Guide we used the following parameter to categorise the watches:

Dive Depth

Movement

Glass

Case Material

Reviews

Price

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