Pro divers - ever exceed rolex depth / wr ratings?????

[Chewbacca]

random thought...

anyone here ever exceed the depth rating of their rolex? i assume the ISO-2281 wr & ISO-6425 scuba standards @ 125% held true?

[Gary Busey]

For a cellini, yes

[jjnd08]

If i ever exceed mine, I won't be able to report it.

[Jason71]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

random thought...

anyone here ever exceed the depth rating of their rolex? i assume the ISO-2281 wr & ISO-6425 scuba standards @ 125% held true?

Rolex oysters are 100m minimum. 125% of this is 410 ft. The guys that are diving to over 400' aren't diving with a 100m watch

[Brian Page]

if my Rolex ever hits that depth send someone to find me :)

[fmc000]

You know that there are more people that walked on the Moon than guys that dived under 300m ? So it's quite difficult to exceed the Submariner rating.

[gregvisser]

As mentioned before, minimum oyster depth rating is 100m. When diving that deep one would normally wear 2 dive computers. A dive watch or otherwise will likely be superfluous and when you are carrying a number of tanks and a stack of other gear, the last thing you want to do is carry something else like a watch which you are unlikely to use.

That's one of the reasons I got a GMT. It dives deep enough for me. I have taken my old Seadweller down to 60 m, but it is a 1,200 m watch. So didn't even scratch the surface.


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[BomB#Frog]

Google record dives on tank air and you will see how crazy it is to go 300m. No one does it unless to break some kind of record.

[RollieVerde]

The depth rating is not just so the watch can go that deep, although it can. The deeper the rating, the better the watch is at taking shocks at more shallow depths. It's like if you have a submarine, you don't want to go down to it's maximum rating in case you bump an outcropping that, combined with the pressure it's already under, would be more likely to cause a structural failure. The depth rating is a way of showing the overall integrity of the watch to keep water out, and there's no agency anywhere that performs any kind of mandatory tests on the majority of dive watches for sale (just like tow ratings for trucks, although this is changing and there are standards that can be met for SAE certification). It's just what the manufacturers wants to claim and therefore cover under warranty. There are ISO standards that you mention, though, that some manufacturers adopt and get certified to. No Rolex watches are ISO rated by the way, because the company doesn't want to put a power reserve indicator on the watch. They say they do test to 120% I believe, and based on their track record I believe them.

[Xenophon]

I have in a submersible !

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by Jason71

Rolex oysters are 100m minimum. 125% of this is 410 ft. The guys that are diving to over 400' aren't diving with a 100m watch

interesting.

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by gregvisser

As mentioned before, minimum oyster depth rating is 100m. When diving that deep one would normally wear 2 dive computers. A dive watch or otherwise will likely be superfluous and when you are carrying a number of tanks and a stack of other gear, the last thing you want to do is carry something else like a watch which you are unlikely to use.

That's one of the reasons I got a GMT. It dives deep enough for me. I have taken my old Seadweller down to 60 m, but it is a 1,200 m watch. So didn't even scratch the surface.


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good to know.


i think some oysters up to the late 90's only had a 50m rating. dj's and exp's to name a few. could be wrong however.

[bayerische]

Originally Posted by Jason71

Rolex oysters are 100m minimum. 125% of this is 410 ft. The guys that are diving to over 400' aren't diving with a 100m watch

So true.

[cabphoto]

How do you get to the point of buying a Rolex (you can read write and feed yourself) and not understand common laws of nature and being a human being?

[Mystro]

Bingo.....
Diving watches have been over built for decades. At this point its a advertising pissing match of useless WR pressure advancements.

Originally Posted by fmc000

You know that there are more people that walked on the Moon than guys that dived under 300m ? So it's quite difficult to exceed the Submariner rating.

[beshannon]

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by cabphoto

How do you get to the point of buying a Rolex (you can read write and feed yourself) and not understand common laws of nature and being a human being?

uh, um, i'm an idiot with good taste and only half human?