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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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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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Panerai Luminor Marina PAM01314 279230

Panerai
Luminor Marina
PAM01314

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
$12,550
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Submersible PAM00569 253590
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Submersible
PAM00569

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
$11,475
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Regatta PAM00526 274327

Panerai
Luminor Regatta
PAM00526

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
$15,195
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir California PAM00448 274337
Limited Edition

Panerai
Radiomir California
PAM00448

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
$10,235
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir GMT PAM00238 258138

Panerai
Radiomir GMT
PAM00238

Box
Papers
Year 2007
$21,535
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00375 235624
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00375

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
$17,040
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00127 274771
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00127

Box
Papers
Year 2004
$22,960
Panerai Radiomir 8 days PAM00992 278826

Panerai
Radiomir 8 days
PAM00992

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$13,760
Panerai Luminor GMT PAM00244 259834

Panerai
Luminor GMT
PAM00244

Box
Papers
Year 2008
$7,655
Panerai Luminor Marina PAM01662 205240
Manufacturer's Warranty

Panerai
Luminor Marina
PAM01662

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
$3,090
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Marina PAM00523 271329

Panerai
Luminor Marina
PAM00523

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
$10,105
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00321 277569
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00321

Box
Papers
Year 2010
$10,125
Panerai Radiomir 8 days PAM00346 254674

Panerai
Radiomir 8 days
PAM00346

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$12,405
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00569 273047
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00569

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
$9,695
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM01231 239949

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01231

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
$22,455
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Quaranta PAM01372 260890

Panerai
Luminor Quaranta
PAM01372

Box
Papers
Year 2022
$12,130
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00557 192145

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00557

Box
Papers
Year 2019
$14,675
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00352 270773

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00352

Box
Papers
Year 2013
$9,820
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00361 255798

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00361

Box
Papers
Year 2011
$11,020
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM00673 268245
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM00673

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
$14,860
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Submersible PAM01223 279684

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01223

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
$10,330
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 254246

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$13,060
Panerai Radiomir Automatic PAM00391 93325

Panerai
Radiomir Automatic
PAM00391

Box
Papers
Year 2012
$26,120
Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM01359 269109

Panerai
Luminor 1950
PAM01359

Box
Papers
Year 2019
$9,570
Panerai Submersible PAM01389 242611

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01389

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
$11,100
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00114 265233

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00114

Box
Papers
Year 2014
$9,010
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00219 259802

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00219

Box
Papers
Year 2009
$6,315
Panerai Radiomir 1940 PAM00627 254277

Panerai
Radiomir 1940
PAM00627

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$11,085
Panerai Luminor Power Reserve PAM00028 261283
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Power Reserve
PAM00028

Box
Papers
Year 2009
$14,795
Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM00658 245546

Panerai
Radiomir 1940 3 Days
PAM00658

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$13,060
Panerai Ferrari FER00011 276918
Limited Edition

Panerai
Ferrari
FER00011

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
$4,790
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Manifattura Luminor PAM00320 271025

Panerai
Manifattura Luminor
PAM00320

Box
Papers
Year 2015
$8,930
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00560 274106
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00560

Box
Papers
Year 2017
$7,270
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00390 256911
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00390

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
$7,715
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Radiomir 8 days PAM00346 246294

Panerai
Radiomir 8 days
PAM00346

Box
Papers
Year 2020
$12,075
Panerai Luminor Marina PAM00727 223451
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Marina
PAM00727

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
$9,610
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00114 240846

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00114

Box
Papers
Year 2003
$8,475
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00009 216983
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00009

Box
Papers
Year 2007
Product Location
$13,735
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00009 255981
Limited Edition

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00009

Box
Papers
Year 1999
$18,270
Panerai Submersible PAM01389 212455
Limited Edition

Panerai
Submersible
PAM01389

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
$8,875
incl. import taxes & duties
Panerai Luminor Base PAM00176 268624

Panerai
Luminor Base
PAM00176

Box
Papers
Year 2006
$8,260
Panerai Ferrari FER00013 273587

Panerai
Ferrari
FER00013

Box
Papers
Year 2009
Product Location
$5,815
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.

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