Sunday, March 29, 2009

Diving Watches

Diving is all about timing. Divers, need to track of their timing during their dive. They can’t watch the clock on the wall, nor can they use a typical watch. That is why they use dive watches also known as diving watches or divers watches. First of all it is able to go deep under water. The dive watches have easy to read dials so that divers can figure out how much time they have remaining for their dive.
Citizen, Invicta, Luminox, Seiko, happen to be a very good brand in diving watches. They look good but what they can do is even better about them. The Citizen watch has a few watches of interest to many.

Caring for your water resistant watch cannot be overlooked, either. It can’t be wear it in a sauna, a hot tub or even a hot shower. The extreme heat causes the metal parts and rubber gaskets to expand at different rates, creating small openings through which water may penetrate. As with the human body, a sudden temperature change is particularly harsh. So, if you chance to wear your watch in something like a hot tub, be careful not to dive into a cold pool after.

All is not what it seems with watch water resistance, you will not find a watch that claims to be waterproof. This is because no watch can be guaranteed totally waterproof. The different levels of water resistance as expressed in meters is only academic. They refer to the depth at which a watch will keep out the water if both watch and the water are static. So for example if you have a water resistant watch and you dive into a swimming pool the pressure on the watch at the point of impact with the water will be many times greater then if you were just placing the watch into the water.