The History of Dive Watches: Part I: The Early Years

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The History of Dive Watches: Part I: The Early Years | Armand The Watch Guy

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In this first installment of a two part history, I would like to discuss the evolution of the dive watch from the first water resistant watches of Rolex & Omega of the 1920s and 1930s, through the military watches of Panerai and Blancpain, to the watches of the explorers of the 1950s and 1960s. These watches formed the foundation for the most popular form of modern men's watches and accompanied major scientific discoveries.
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@bearclooneywatches4186 6 жыл бұрын

You are officially my favourite watch channel! I have enjoyed your videos long time and never commented! You deserve recognition for great work you do! Thank you for hours of enjoyment!

@fpoynton1604 6 жыл бұрын

Remarkably well done Armand. Fascinating review of such an interesting part of horology that we all love to learn about and enjoy. Divers are true explorers of our times. 👍

@apegrasshoplizard 4 жыл бұрын

There are still a few very well made and historic vintage dive watches from the 60's for well under $1000 and sometimes even for under $500. I have a Lanco Barracuda Super Compressor (EPSA) and will be recieving a Zodiac Sea Wolf 1781 shortly. These watches are more affordable since the brands are now long gone or less known or popular and also their size which is a bit on the small size compared to current trends.

@romanopeterj 6 жыл бұрын

As someone six months into his watch education (Proud owner of some value brands, the Junghans Form A, Glycene Combat Sub), I loved the history your video provided, well done!

@wick-trimmer1980 6 жыл бұрын

Another excellent video Armand. Can't get enough of this history. Looking forward to part 2. Thanks.

@camrackam791 6 жыл бұрын

More histories! Do racing watches please

@alittleolder 6 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the video a great deal. Really looking forward to part 2. Sir, you've really done your research.

@ssvs0485 6 жыл бұрын

I listened to this fascinated all the way to work.

@mirkoscialpi5244 Жыл бұрын

Please come back Armand! We all miss you! Your knowledge and informative video are unmatched.

@markplayford5836 6 жыл бұрын

Superb video Armand, not often you watch anything on You Tube that's educational! Looking forward to part 2 sir.

@georgegrillo7421 6 жыл бұрын

One of your very best yet! Thank you!

@jbhomme 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Armand, that was a really fascinating presentation. Can't wait for part 2!

@terryfranks7521 6 жыл бұрын

Oh I can’t wait for the next chapter thanks Armand

@khronokraze 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the history lesson on dive watches. Looking forward to part 2

@MrVoayer 6 жыл бұрын

Textbook video ! Just like the most in Armand's production ! Looking forward to part 2 !

@BumblebumBear Жыл бұрын

Great video….one comment I would say is Squale really deserved a mention as the produced a lot of watch cases for other manufactures (including Blacpain), so are an important omission from the video and the history of dive watches.

@Explorer40mm 4 ай бұрын

And Seiko!

@billcosgrave6232 6 жыл бұрын

Great Video. I love horological history.

@MrTeopantli 6 жыл бұрын

absolutely fantastic video. I recently had the fortune of finding a vintage sea wolf. Had it not been for this video, i'd probably have ignored it. Absolutely fantastic little watch.

@morgan97475 6 жыл бұрын

very informative. thanks for the video...looking forward to the next one.

@MrAdjaize 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the time and research you put into the videos ,some of the best on watches on KZfaq

@lapomazza5635 2 жыл бұрын

THE very best video history of DIVERS. No need to say anything else. Top notch. 😎

@Mk21Diver 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent, like all your stuff man. Looking forward to the next part.

@kyleweber1994 6 жыл бұрын

These are fantastic, keep it up, Armand!

@UXXV 6 жыл бұрын

You nailed it! Also props for the pronunciation of Omega - noone else seems to.

@JeffreyPisarek 4 жыл бұрын

Incredibly well done video! Onto part 2 I go....!!

@jasongreaves1038 6 жыл бұрын

Hope the second video mentions my beloved Sinn U2. I admire the research..... great work

@jamesfabbo6481 6 жыл бұрын

Great Video !! Well done!! I enjoyed your video big time.Thank you

@anotherknight75 6 жыл бұрын

Bravo, never knew how much there is to the history of divers.

@hishorology8182 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. Now onto part 2!

@paulandsueroberts4121 6 жыл бұрын

Well done Armand very informative.....how anybody can give this a thumbs down is beyond me!

@Farmhouse1967 6 жыл бұрын

Another Superlative job. Fabulous historical reference. Keep content ticking along, regards

@johnnyarsenault9124 9 ай бұрын

After looking to another one of your well done documentary: I was amazed at your age & quantity of fine details in your documentary! Bravo for another superb documentary ! 👌❤️

@zacharyg2966 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video!

@MiataBRG 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you 👍

@lorddavid5995 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

@diver11b1p2 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, can't wait for the 2nd part!

@grahamlawton6250 6 жыл бұрын

Nice one. Cheers.

@DMWeekes90 6 жыл бұрын

The Deep Sea Special was featured on the Talking Watches episode with Rene Beyer. Fascinating to see it on his wrist! I hope to see it on display in the Beyer Museum when I visit Zurich next month.

@thomash4578 5 жыл бұрын

I am very happy I came across your channel.

@rodneymounsey4168 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastical done and can’t wIt for part two!

@donrogan2812 6 жыл бұрын

Another Amazing Video!! Thank you for all your efforts. Very informative, my favorite KZfaq channel!!

@phillippugh2161 3 жыл бұрын

Such a great video on dive watches

@danieldelorme4021 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your videos! Very well researched. Thank you! :)

@alohm 3 жыл бұрын

what an excellently done production sir!

@danielpaulson3631 6 жыл бұрын

This was great! I learned a lot from this. Thanks for putting it together.

@gymenergic7440 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting report. You forget the American brand Waltham which released The First Waterproof Watch in 1919 with the Waltham Depillier model, 7 years before Rolex!

@mikethebike67 6 жыл бұрын

Great series Armand. I really enjoyed it.

@manuelmiguel2311 6 жыл бұрын

this guy needs more subs!

@sashachip 5 жыл бұрын

No mention of the Vulcain Cricket Nautilus? It had the first underwater alarm and first decompression table complication under a rotating dial. That was also the watch worn by the diver inside the Trieste when he went down to the Challenger Deep. It’s an iconic timepiece that deserves mention.

@markcoffman494 6 жыл бұрын

Great summary 👍

@jackdillon4467 4 жыл бұрын

What a great informative video! Thank you so very, very much!!!!!!!

@inkitatus1 6 жыл бұрын

interesting stuff, thank you 👍👍

@NateTheGarbage Ай бұрын

One day I’ll make it past the halfway point without falling asleep

@hughmckendrick3018 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent history, well told. Great fan of dive watches. Have six with depth ranges of 200m to 600m but the only water they come into contact is when I am washing my hands!

@alex_inside 6 жыл бұрын

Hugh McKendrick yeah my SKX also just desk dives all day but I had once the chance to dive with it and it was a great and at the same time strange feeling.

@robertsullivan4773 4 жыл бұрын

Very good, I learned a lot, I currently own two divers a Breitling super ocean II Heritage B20 and a Omega SMP300. So it was fun to see where the two companies fit in.

@greghowardbell 4 жыл бұрын

You are the best in the business

@ZeginMakesMusic Жыл бұрын

The zodiac was 100% the very first dive watch. The Rolex submariner came out a few days later and was $20 more expensive. The 50 fathoms came out the following week and was $10 cheaper than the zodiac, $90 retail.

@ichris2011 3 ай бұрын

I always thought this was the case, but check out an article on this subject by Perezcope. There is no evidence of the zodiac sea wolf having existed prior to 1958. It appears many brands, zodiac and blancpain included, have attempted to insert themselves into history where they do not belong. I am no Rolex fanboy, but the submariner is the only early dive watch that can verify its existence first beyond a reasonable doubt. Even the earliest evidence of the fifty fathoms patents didn’t appear until several months AFTER Basel 1954 where the submariner was unveiled as a competed and available piece.

@alessandro.felici 2 жыл бұрын

Epic video!

@emisor73 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing channel! Wow, thank you. I’m a big fan

@Tal-wb9jn 6 жыл бұрын

Outstanding!

@extremlaughing 6 жыл бұрын

Very good video, very interesting. Great job.

@H4VG44RD 2 жыл бұрын

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms existed BEFORE the french navy asked for it. Jean-Jacques Fiechter - who was the CEO at the time, nearly drowned due to the lack of a timekeeping mechanism for divers. Therefore he invented the unidirectional bezel, the sealing in the caseback and the sealing in the crown. The only thing they added was a wish for the watch to be more antimagnetic. Great story :-)

@vdbdg 6 жыл бұрын

Great bit of info, thanks Armand! Doesn’t Omega’s reissue of the ‘57 Seamaster 300 look gorgeous still?

@federicoacker5672 3 жыл бұрын

Very good chronicle, but I think the Aquastar Deepstar should been included, because it was (I think) the first real submersible chronograph, and had the first bezel decompression table (before Doxa). Another detail is that Blancpain patented in 1953 the unidirectional bezel, that´s why every other makers had to use bidirectional bezels until 1980, when the patent expired. And that´s the reason for the famous "red-button" in the PloProf, it was a unique safety device, since the bezel still was bidirectional, due to the Blancpain patent. Cheers

@alittleolder 6 жыл бұрын

The politicial situation in Europe is I think more in a "troublesome position" than back then... but now I continue to watch or rather listen to this.. I just had to make this comment.. as someone very unhappy with current politics

@orirune3079 6 жыл бұрын

[eye rolling intensifies]

@richardthorn7726 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@villepyykko2948 6 жыл бұрын

This was great!!

@jet-settingrogue761 6 жыл бұрын

Really interesting, thank you

@danilodittmann8902 2 ай бұрын

Without Squale and Charles von Büren the History is not complete.

@georgeliquor2931 3 жыл бұрын

No mention of the Wyler Vetta Life Guard?

@mgmmaze 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!!!

@MrDoncarnage Жыл бұрын

Due to Sealabs crystal poping, Sealab 2 sported Certina DS which proved to be much more robust and reliable

@almcl9391 6 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks

@antonhallergren588 2 жыл бұрын

The blancpain FF is my grail diver. After that it's probably the sea dweller or deep-sea followed by the Glashütte seaq and blancpain FF bathyscaphe. Very likely going to pick up the rainbow diver and doxa sub 300t soon.

@jeznashalie 6 жыл бұрын

“Undeniable that the political situation in Europe was in a troublesome position” with out a doubt the most understated way to describe the rise of fascism, the Nazis and the buildup to WWII i

@russellalfonso2962 3 жыл бұрын

can you tell me anything about the Norwood "Oris Diver 65" with an Oris mechanical manual wind 7 jewel movement?

@markbyrum4743 3 жыл бұрын

Excel vid. Keep at it!

@Ouroboros67 6 жыл бұрын

So awesome

@mrg1911 6 жыл бұрын

Great, great video(s)! Please let us know the opening piano music....I love the vibe of your channel....

@McLaughter_ 3 жыл бұрын

BP FF the first with a rotating bezel? That is groundbreaking to mention the least

@almac9203 2 жыл бұрын

They also held the patent for unidirectional bezel. Early competitors used bidirectional bezels because Blancpain owned the rights to the invention.

@phmwu7368 5 жыл бұрын

Dive watch is a tool watch with military origin = 1940 Panerai Radiomir , 1952 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms , 1953 Rolex Submariner , 1966 Rolex Sea Dweller , 1971 Omega Ploprof ...

@CaptCanuck4444 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, but I'd really recommend updating your intro music to something less sleepy. :)

@vjchung 4 жыл бұрын

I suggest you rerecord the audio of the video. There is excessive sibilance (sss sound), which make it hard to understand.

@Hshsha123 2 жыл бұрын

Google- first dive watch rolex But blancpain :(

@Lion_ofJudah 2 жыл бұрын

No professional diver would use a mechanical/traditional dive watch today :)

@stevec8243 Жыл бұрын

Yet I know commercial divers who do.

@abb1793 6 жыл бұрын

The '26 oyster rolex certainly wasn't the first hermetic watch, or first waterresistant watch, beaten, for instance, by the rolex hermetic of ~1922, which, itself, I don't think was the first hermetic watch. The oyster may be the first with an external crown, though I don't know, and, also, the screwdown crown was invented in the late 1800s with another set of patents coming in the later 1910s.

@troynasello2085 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't 31 bar 310 meters?

@777thejesusfreak777 6 жыл бұрын

1 person thinks the invicta pro diver is the best dive watch

@Lanciarules 6 жыл бұрын

It is not Pànerai but Panerài: the accent is on the last "a"

@STARFLIGHT72 5 жыл бұрын

You forget the first diver watch ever made. 1880 Girard Perregaux for German Imperial Navy.

@letsplay455 Жыл бұрын

Seiko?????

@esapuhakka5494 5 жыл бұрын

31,5 bar is not same as 3150m, video 15.50 min. But nice video.

@markwalters1584 20 күн бұрын

Leather strap? Well it is a dive watch. I live in Houston, Texas and that leather will get wet from sweat and to tell you the truth, get a little odiferous and nasty. Personally I have to go with rubber. 😊