Dive Watches

Created for diving professionals, dive watches boast high water resistance, highly legible dials and help tell divers how long they’ve been submerged for via a rotational bezel. They’re loved for their distinctive and robust design, making them one of the most popular watch genres around.

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  1. Rolex Rolex
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  3. IWC IWC
  4. Omega Omega
  5. Breitling Breitling
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  7. Tag Heuer Tag Heuer
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  9. Cartier Cartier
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  13. Patek Philippe Patek Philippe
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  1. A. Lange and Sohne A. Lange and Sohne
  2. Audemars Piguet Audemars Piguet
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  4. Ball Ball
  5. Baume et Mercier Baume et Mercier
  6. Bell and Ross Bell and Ross
  7. Blancpain Blancpain
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  10. Bremont Bremont
  11. Bvlgari Bvlgari
  12. Carl F. Bucherer Carl F. Bucherer
  13. Cartier Cartier
  14. Chanel Chanel
  15. Chopard Chopard
  16. Christian Dior Christian Dior
  17. Chronoswiss Chronoswiss
  18. Corum Corum
  19. Eterna Eterna
  20. F.P. Journe F.P. Journe
  21. Franck Muller Franck Muller
  22. Frederique Constant Frederique Constant
  23. Girard Perregaux Girard Perregaux
  24. Glashutte Original Glashutte Original
  25. Graham Graham
  26. Grand Seiko Grand Seiko
  27. H. Moser and Cie H. Moser and Cie
  28. Hamilton Hamilton
  29. Hermes Hermes
  30. Hublot Hublot
  31. IWC IWC
  32. Jaeger-LeCoultre Jaeger-LeCoultre
  33. JeanRichard JeanRichard
  34. Laurent Ferrier Laurent Ferrier
  35. Longines Longines
  36. Louis Erard Louis Erard
  37. Maurice Lacroix Maurice Lacroix
  38. Montblanc Montblanc
  39. Nomos Glashutte Nomos Glashutte
  40. Omega Omega
  41. Oris Oris
  42. Panerai Panerai
  43. Parmigiani Parmigiani
  44. Patek Philippe Patek Philippe
  45. Perrelet Perrelet
  46. Piaget Piaget
  47. Porsche Design Porsche Design
  48. Rado Rado
  49. Raymond Weil Raymond Weil
  50. Richard Mille Richard Mille
  51. Roger Dubuis Roger Dubuis
  52. Rolex Rolex
  53. Romain Jerome Romain Jerome
  54. Tag Heuer Tag Heuer
  55. Tudor Tudor
  56. Ulysse Nardin Ulysse Nardin
  57. Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin
  58. Zenith Zenith
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The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph 1758470 273295

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Master Compressor Chronograph
1758470

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
HK$55,070
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre AMVOX Alarm 191.T.97 269450
Limited Edition

Jaeger-LeCoultre
AMVOX Alarm
191.T.97

Box
Papers
Year 2005
Product Location
HK$70,005
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW380902 254551
Limited Edition

IWC
Ingenieur
IW380902

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
HK$66,530
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 902843J 279618

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
902843J

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
HK$150,885
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph 205L570 244408

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Master Compressor Chronograph
205L570

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
HK$52,785
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos De Cartier WSSA0037 277735

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WSSA0037

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$65,325
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos De Cartier WSSA0037 265295

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WSSA0037

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
HK$79,140
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Aquatimer IW356810 279413

IWC
Aquatimer
IW356810

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
HK$23,065
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9028471 253451

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9028471

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
HK$79,750
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW376501 251714

IWC
Ingenieur
IW376501

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
HK$78,325
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos De Cartier WSSA0030 271079

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WSSA0030

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
HK$60,395
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9068670 264910
Manufacturer's Warranty

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9068670

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
HK$61,315
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Ronde Croisiere WSRN0002 272131

Cartier
Ronde Croisiere
WSRN0002

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
HK$33,495
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9028480 275630

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9028480

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
HK$90,595
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW388108 246684

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW388108

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
HK$75,500
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW323310 240819
Limited Edition

IWC
Ingenieur
IW323310

Box
Papers
Year 2012
HK$37,365
IWC Ingenieur IW322504 202433

IWC
Ingenieur
IW322504

Box
Papers
Year 2014
HK$42,705
Cartier Santos De Cartier WJSA0007 276267
Manufacturer's Warranty

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WJSA0007

Box
Papers
Year 2019
HK$145,085
Cartier Santos De Cartier WSSA0030 260287

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WSSA0030

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$83,745
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW388107 230887
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW388107

Box
Papers
Year 2022
HK$63,630
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9028180 274300

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9028180

Box
Papers
Year 2020
Product Location
HK$79,295
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos De Cartier WGSA0008 222906

Cartier
Santos De Cartier
WGSA0008

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$207,350
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Aquatimer IW329005 281815

IWC
Aquatimer
IW329005

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
HK$27,135
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW388103 265753

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW388103

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
HK$63,665
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Ronde Croisiere WSRN0002 253811

Cartier
Ronde Croisiere
WSRN0002

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
HK$37,670
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Roadster W62025V3 279603

Cartier
Roadster
W62025V3

Box
Papers
Year 2010
Product Location
HK$27,555
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos W2SA0006 266080

Cartier
Santos
W2SA0006

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
HK$81,165
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos 100 W20073X8 253291

Cartier
Santos 100
W20073X8

Box
Papers
Year 2017
HK$33,135
Cartier Santos 100 W20126X8 254934

Cartier
Santos 100
W20126X8

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
HK$34,520
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Ballon Bleu WSBB0061 269085

Cartier
Ballon Bleu
WSBB0061

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$50,070
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling SuperOcean Automatic 42 U17375 273311

Breitling
SuperOcean Automatic 42
U17375

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
HK$49,255
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos 100 W20077X7 274109

Cartier
Santos 100
W20077X7

Box
Papers
Year 2004
Product Location
HK$49,005
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling Super Chronomat B01 44 AB0136 277011

Breitling
Super Chronomat B01 44
AB0136

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$48,315
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling SuperOcean Heritage B20 Automatic 42 UB2010 259317

Breitling
SuperOcean Heritage B20 Automatic 42
UB2010

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$47,045
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling Super Chronomat B01 44 AB0136 272371

Breitling
Super Chronomat B01 44
AB0136

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$58,590
incl. import taxes & duties
Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris 9068670 256789

Jaeger-LeCoultre
Polaris
9068670

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
HK$66,115
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Pasha WSPA0026 260466
Manufacturer's Warranty

Cartier
Pasha
WSPA0026

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$72,480
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos 100 WM50460M 258500

Cartier
Santos 100
WM50460M

Box
Papers
Year 2008
Product Location
HK$108,195
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling SuperOcean Automatic 36 A17377 270525

Breitling
SuperOcean Automatic 36
A17377

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$30,200
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Pasha WSPA0009 266937

Cartier
Pasha
WSPA0009

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
HK$47,680
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Santos 100 W200737G 241356

Cartier
Santos 100
W200737G

Box
Papers
Year 2008
Product Location
HK$43,445
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling Chronomat B01 42 AB0134 244986

Breitling
Chronomat B01 42
AB0134

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
HK$46,770
incl. import taxes & duties

Dive Watches

History

The dive watch, a symbol of adventure and resilience, has a rich and exciting history that stretches back to 1927 when Rolex launched its Oyster model. This innovative watch, with its screw-down case and crown, is considered the first fully water-resistant wristwatch.

Famously, it was worn that year by a young swimmer called Mercedes Gleitz who was the first woman to swim the English Channel. To advertise the feat—and the capabilities of its latest watch—Rolex bought the front page of the most widely read British newspaper of the time, the Daily Mail.

Rolex went on to supply movements to Panerai, who developed the dive watch further with the specialist timepieces they made for the frogmen of the Italian navy in the late 1930s. These early dive watches had a water resistance of 30 metres—unimpressive by today’s standards which requires a dive watch to have a minimum water resistance of 100 metres.

By the mid-1950s, scuba-diving was a popular worldwide pastime due to the invention of the aqualung a decade earlier. This led to a spate of similar-looking dive watches like Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms, which featured the first rotating bezel—enabling divers to accurately measure immersion time—and the Rolex Submariner. Both these watches were water-resistant to 100 metres, while the Zodiac Sea Wolf, released shortly afterwards, doubled this to 200 metres.

In the decades since, dive watches have become more and more capable of withstanding extreme water pressure. In 2012, Rolex launched its Deepsea Challenge model which boasted an incredible 12,000 metres water resistance. In the same year it was attached to a submersible that Hollywood director James Cameron piloted to the deepest part of the world’s oceans—the Marianas Trench—to a depth of 10,898 metres, surviving the ordeal unscathed.

Key features

Today, dive watches continue to push boundaries, incorporating advanced technologies and materials such as helium escape valves, luminescent dials, and enhanced water resistance.

What sets dive watches apart from other timepieces? Let's look at what makes a dive watch unique, designed specifically for the rigours of underwater exploration.

Firstly, their exceptional water resistance is critical. Unlike standard watches, dive watches can withstand the extreme conditions of deep-sea diving, with a water resistance rating of at least 100 metres and many capable of depths up to 300 metres or much more.

Additional features of a dive watch include a unidirectional rotating bezel for tracking immersion time, bold luminous markers and hands for good visibility in murky conditions, and a helium escape valve to prevent damage during decompression. Most dive watches don’t have the latter as they are only of use in saturation diving when a diver spends time in a decompression chamber.

Some diving watches even incorporate helium-filled cases and built-in depth gauges, allowing divers to monitor their current depth without the need for additional equipment. These features make dive watches a useful tool for underwater exploration, although in an age of wearable dive computers they are more often now used as a back-up option.

One thing every mechanical dive watch must have is a constantly running seconds hand, or some kind of display indicating the watch is running that can be viewed in total darkness.

The science of water Resistance in dive watches

Water resistance is a vital feature of a dive watch. Special seals and gaskets prevent water infiltration, while robust materials like stainless steel or titanium ensure durability and resistance to corrosion. Rigorous testing verifies a dive watch's ability to withstand different pressures and temperatures, simulating the conditions encountered underwater.

Water resistance is measured in metres or bar units, indicating the depth to which the watch can be submerged safely. It's worth noting that factors such as water temperature and movement can affect a diving watch's performance underwater.

Popular dive watch models

The Rolex Submariner is a classic choice, renowned for its robustness and precision, and capable of withstanding depths of up to 300 metres. It was famously worn by James Bond until the 1990s when he swapped one dive watch for another: the equally iconic Omega Seamaster.

Other enduring models that are as timeless as they are stylish include the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, Breitling Superocean, Panerai Luminor and IWC Aquatimer. Fellow Swiss brands Tudor and TAG Heuer offer more affordable choices like the Black Bay and Aquaracer, respectively.

At Watchfinder, we offer a vast selection of pre-owned luxury dive watches from all of the aforementioned brands, from Rolex to IWC, catering to every budget and taste. Explore our collection and discover the exceptional craftsmanship and performance of these remarkable watches.