They promise adventure, invite journey into the deep, but guarantee serious misadventure into depths our wallets and bank accounts.īelow are unarguably the top three mechanical depth meters available today the Favre-Leuba Bathy V.2, the IWC Aquatimer Deep Two and the JLC MC Diving Geographic as well as its rose gold sibling the MC Diving Geographic SEALs. They capture the hearts imaginations of diver’s and horologists alike. Sadly, as is with probably 90% of dive watches, these marvels of modern engineering once leaving the boutique, rarely fulfill their destinies as depth meters, but that’s not to say they aren’t revered and marveled at. They are created using the most the exacting and advanced technologies, are rigorously tested, and in the case of IWC and JLC are put through their paces in the element that they were intended for. And as with diving tourbillions they perfectly showcase what the watchmakers are capable of. It’s true that depth gauges can serve as a backup to your dive computer, as can an elapsed dive scale on your dive watch, but lets not kid ourselves here, this is not why watch companies like Favre-Leuba, Jaeger-LeCoultre or IWC have created watches like the Bathy V.2, Master Compressor Diving Geographic Pro or the Aquatimer Deep Two.īesides being uber-cool, these watches head up their latest dive watch families. Why then are mechanical depth gauges still being incorporated into diving wrist watches? By TLex The ocean is the playground of the new millennium, more and more of us are venturing into the deep blue, advances in diving technologies, ever sophisticated dive computers and hi-tech diving equipment are all accessible even to the novice diver.
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