Logically, the mechanical diving watch should have been consigned to Davy Jones’s locker years ago. Since the late 1980s, professional and sport divers have been able to buy inexpensive, wrist-worn digital computers with liquid crystal read-outs that give them all the information they need at a glance, from the length of immersion time to the quantity of air left in their tanks.
Yet there are more “traditional” underwater watches on the market today than at any time since Rolex introduced the Submariner, generally regarded as the original professional dive watch, in 1954.
