57 Best Dive Watches – A Complete Guide for 2023

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms

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Price: $15,700, Case Size: 45mm, Thickness: 15.4mm, Lug-to-Lug: 50mm, Water Resistance: 300m, Movement: Auto Blancpain 1315, Crystal: SapphireAmong the most historic dive watch makers is Blancpain, whose contribution of the original Fifty Fathoms watch in 1953 (the same year as the Submariner’s launch) has influenced nearly all dive watches that followed it. The first-ever diver’s watch with the now-common unidirectional bezel, the modern Blancpain Fifty Fathoms boasts DNA that has held up over the last seven decades or so, thanks to a straight-forward dial designed for underwater legibility. The modern Fifty Fathoms (Ref. 5015-12B30-NABA) is somewhat more luxurious compared to its ancestors, with a 45mm titanium case, sapphire crystal, sapphire bezel, and an automatic, in-house 1315 caliber. Despite being pretty large, the new Fifty Fathoms wears well and presents an interesting argument for an extremely luxurious diver with a rich heritage.

Tissot Seastar 2000 Professional Powermatic 80

Tissot’s most ruggedly attractive dive watch to date entices deep-sea enthusiasts with its integrated helium release valve at 9 o’clock, unidirectional dive-scale bezel with engraved ceramic insert, and its most eye-catching element, a turquoise-blue gradient dial with a maritime-inspired, engraved wave motif The watch’s 46-mm stainless steel case is water-resistant to a very “professional” 600 meters and has an imposing wrist presence, at 16.25 mm thick, with a large screw-down crown and its guards. The date appears in a metallic framed window at 6 o’clock. Tissot has installed one of its most high-end movements inside the Seastar Professional 2000 — the Swatch Group-exclusive Powermatic 80, which is based on the standard ETA 2824 but as per its name boasts an increased power reserve of 80 hours, thanks mainly to a clever reduction of its balance frequency, from 28,800 to 21,600 vph. 

Titoni Seascoper 600

Specifications: Price: $1,870, Case Size: 42mm, Thickness: 14.45mm, Lug-to-Lug: 46mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Water Resistance: 600m, Movement: Automatic Titoni T110, Power Reserve: 72 Hours, Crystal: Sapphire

Originally released in the 1960s under the brand name Felca (Titoni’s parent firm), the Seascoper was one of the first popular models for recreational divers. The modern version matches a stainless steel case with a unidirectional rotating bezel made of ceramic and bearing an eye-catching red sector for the first 15 minutes of the dive scale. Also equipped with a helium release valve, the case’s 600-meter water resistance is ensured by a special gasket system. The automatic movement inside, behind a porthole-shaped sapphire caseback window, is Titoni’s own Caliber T110, a COSC-certified chronometer.