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The Dan Henry 1975 Skin Diver in all of it's varieties
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2024’s Best Small Dive Watches For Women and Men

Are you in need of a smaller dive watch, either due to small wrists or just preference? Prefer brighter colors? The guide to best women’s dive watches should help!

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Orient Ray II Dive Watch Review
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2024’s Best Dive Watches Under $200

Need a wrist watch that’s stylish, but also rugged and useful? Or you don’t dive with a computer, and need a reliable watch to keep track of your dive time? Our guide to the best dive watches under $200 will help you find the perfect watch without breaking the bank. Unfortunately, …

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Orient Triton RA-EL0001B
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2018’s Best Dive Watches Under $500

Need a new watch and have a budget of under $500? You’re in luck since the best dive watches under $500 but above about $250 are the ultimate sweet-spot (in my humble opinion) for features and finish vs. cost of the watch.

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2018’s Best Dive Watches Under $1000

In need of a new watch? The thousands of options too much to sort through? Dive Watches Blog is here to help. This is a short-list of the best dive watches under $1000 that are currently available.

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Casio MDV106-1A Diver Wristshot On Beach
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Best Affordable Dive Watches

On the hunt for an affordable dive watch? I’m here to help, no matter what your budget may be! $500 or less, $200 or less, or even under $100.

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Best Orange Divers – DOXA SUB1200T
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The Best Orange Dive Watches

A lot of people are completely obsessed with orange dive watches, and for good reason. They offer a very bright alternative to the mass of black and white dialed watches available, and visually pop off of the wrist. Why are bright orange dials so popular on dive watches?  Orange faced …

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Casio MDV106-1A Wrist Shot with black NATO strap
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2016’s Best Dive Watches under $100

Finding proper dive watches under $100 that aren’t complete garbage is quite the chore. Invicta offers several nice looking inexpensive divers, but everything I’ve read and heard about them is that they fall apart very quickly, or are broken on arrival. I’ll be reviewing a few myself here soon to see if …

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Evolution of the Rolex Submariner

The Rolex Submariner is one of the most popular dive watches of all time, easily shown by the number of copies/homages available today. While reading an article about the history of the Rolex Submariner, I found myself wanting a visual guide to the various changes made throughout the years to the iconic …

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Top Boutique Dive Watch Companies

H2O / Helberg H2O and Helberg are two brands from the H2O Watch Company, based out of Germany. H2O Watch specializes in extremely customizable, high tech mechanical dive watches. Each watch is tailor-made to your exact specifications, making every watch unique. In addition to their watches being fully customizable with …

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Dive Watch Sizing Guide

What size watch will look best on your wrist? Watch sizing can be a complicated topic, and there’s no hard rules. A lot of the ‘look best’ part comes down to personal preference. Some people with small wrists are perfectly comfortable wearing a behemoth diver that others may consider outlandish …

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Dive Watches: A Quick Guide to the Basics

Just getting into watches? Be sure to reference our guide to common watch terms while reading this. What is a dive watch? At it’s most basic, a dive watch (also known as a diving watch, or a diver’s) is a watch designed for underwater diving that can withstand at a …

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Basic Watch Terminology

Just getting into watches? If you’re like me, you’re running into a lot of seemingly obscure terms and phrases.  So what do all these watch specific words mean? I’m not going to be able to cover everything you might see, but this guide will provide a good reference, so you’ll be …

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It does not, lug holes are too far to the outside.

Sandris

Does the Strapcode bracelet fit properly? Read somewhere that there were slight diferences in lug shape between Ray II and III..

Harry Bouma

I am glad you didn't Reed! Too many people allready wear a warch for a short time and then review it. What you do is a niche, really special! And…

Reed Gibson

Thanks Harry! I keep telling myself I'm going to buy a watch, wear it for a couple weeks, write a review and then sell it on so that I can…

Reed Gibson

Thanks for the feedback Matt. Where are you getting this info about the Mako 3 vs. Ray 3? The Japanese Orient site doesn't seem to use that branding ( I…