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I have been looking for a Seiko yellow fin tuna to buy, it's been on my radar for a while.Green watches seem to have become popular recently the green Rolex Submariners second hand prices are high compared to the standard model. A friend of mine had been after a Seiko Prospex diving watch but thinks list price is fixed and hates to haggle for some reason! I managed to get him a good discount off this PADI version. It's a modernised turtle design. The bracelet is very poor so I swapped it for a Nato which looks and he says is a better fit.
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Doesn't look at all feminine to me. Sure, I can see women would wear it, but many like to wear watches pitched as mens' anyway. Yours looks more like the kind of sleek watch an Italian designer or architect might favourI like the Waveceptor as I'm an analogue fan but then again I bought this Casio A700WEM not long ago. Its described as a ladies model but I think it makes a good formal watch. Its only chromed plastic but the milanese bracelet is excellent and doesnt pluck hairs out of your wrist!
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They don't - is the simple answer.I often wonder how near to actual submersion these highly engineered divers watches get.
Zorro totally right there mate, I use a Seiko when diving, the sub I leave at home .They don't - is the simple answer.
A drinking pal of mine i knew from school days had been a pro diver (ex Navy diver too) and we were talking about this a few years back - he said that
a) all pro divers will usually buy a Rolex sub, but then leave it at home and wear a Seiko or Citizen beater dive watch for work - and only for telling the time on surface - dive watches have become redundant now because all divers have a digital dive computer to work out how long they have been down etc.
b) He told me that amateur divers never usually get down more than about 20 to 30 metres, because it becomes much more technical and demanding beyond that depth and you need additional training.
So you and me only need a 100m rated watch (because 100m rated is properley waterproof for swimming, wheras 50m rating is only guaranteed "splashproof" )
My mate said 300m diving is proper serious, serious, risk-of-death stuff !!
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