Diving watch appreciation: with you to develop a completely different world

Many diving enthusiasts tell us that when they dive deep into the ocean, they find themselves entering another one. In the deep underwater world, quiet can only hear their own heartbeat. It is a completely different world.

Director Jacques Beyhan said in an interview that the documentary "Ocean" can actually reflect everyone's reflection on nature. However, the most direct feeling for everyone who has watched the movie must be "Nature is beautiful and fragile. Do not hurt the most precious resource on Earth anymore."

While the film "Ocean" has aroused the world's reflection, it has also aroused more and more people's interest in this area that covers 70% of the Earth. If you want to learn to dive, we must first understand that diving watch.

Because one of the most important tools for any diver is the dive watch. If you think diving watch is just a decorative effect, or in the deep sea for reading time tools, then you are wrong. In fact, dive watches are one of the few tools that can help divers during a dive. Remove the reading time of this function, each dive watch rotating bezel can always remind the diver remaining oxygen can support time.

For the watchmaking process, not just to be waterproof, how to make the watch to overcome the extreme pressure in the deep sea environment, every minute is not bad, not infiltration cents, watchmakers diligently pursue the ultimate.

Professional dive timing advance

Compared to pocket watches and watches nearly a hundred years ago, the history of diving watches is not too long, and from today's strict diving rules, the year's diving watch can only be regarded as a waterproof watch. The development of science and technology, making today's watch has easily reached the water depth of 100 meters, professional diving watch is more than 200 meters are generally waterproof. In fact, the water resistance that we can easily get nowadays is a very long development process for a not too long history of development.

It is well known that water, dust, magnetism and shock are the four enemies of the watch from the day of birth of the watch. As early as the early 20th century, watchmakers began to study how to counter these external forces, thereby increasing the watch's durability and durability.

By the 1920s, watchmakers Francis Baumgartner, Paul Perregaux and Georges Peret had been able to produce high-quality cases. Omega and Longines have adopted this watch case due to the good waterproofing provided by these cases for better sealing.

However, the true waterproof watch to further enhance and develop, it should be Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf, without his dedicated that year, it is estimated that the history of the waterproof watch to be delayed period of writing.

Rolex Rolex Oyster Watch (1927)

When it comes to this watch must refer to two people, one is naturally the Hans Wilsdorf, it is the Rolex Rolex brand founder tirelessly improve the case precision, surface crystal lens adhesion and crown system. The other is Mercedes Gleitzes, who made the watch famous. In 1927, she wears Rolex's Oyster and swims across the Strait of England. It takes 15 hours and 15 minutes to swim and become famous overnight through media reports and advertisements. Durable, accurate, waterproof, coupled with unparalleled sports atmosphere and courage symbol, Rolex's image will be deeply imprinted in the hearts of the general public.

Omega Marine 1932

Have to say, this watch just like to tell others, "I can waterproof!" That year, the adventurer Charles William Beebe wear, diving for the first time to a depth of 10 meters underwater, setting a record.

CARTIER Cartier The Pasha 1932

This is the world's first luxury waterproof watch. A North African Moroccan nobility called Pasha of Marrakech (Pasha of Marrakech) ordered Haj Thami El Mezouari El Glaoui to order a watch from Cartier, who demanded that the watch be water-tight so he could swim and watch the time. At the request of Pasha of Marrakesh, Cartier invented a brand new screw-in crown and created a watch that would let him know when to swim. This is The Pasha.

Panerai Officine Panerai

Many people think that the way the World War II combat and prevalent military appearance is another reason to promote the rapid development of diving watch, when the German and Italian troops adopted by the Panerai Officine Panerai, effectively working waterproof depth has reached 30 meters.

Diving watch a new era

As mentioned in the preceding paragraph, Omega launched Marine as early as 1932 and was dive worn by Beebe to as deep as 10 meters (not the same concept as Rolex Oyster's swimming). Later, in 1948 also introduced the famous Seamaster series Seamaster.

However, if strictly studied, Marine and then the Seamaster actually can not be called a real dive table.

The current watch world recognized diving watch really into the lives of ordinary people should be from 1954 - Rolex launched its revolutionary submariner Ref. 6204.

In 1956, Rolex launched Ref.6538, now known as 007 Bond Submariner James Bond Submariner, which can withstand up to 200 meters (660 feet) of water. At that time, it was an unforgivable moment when the time was spent on hot folk sports and adventure culture after the war. Coupled with the ever-widening media coverage of the media, the diving watch and the sports watch. Diving table is considered formal ink is completed, boarded the vocal stage of history.

However, until 1966, diving in Japan, wearing a 300 meters diving watch at 350 meters deep sea diving operations, due to changes in the pressure caused by the ups and downs of the case opened the case, the development of the brand diving watch, before Begin to value the importance of excluding helium.

Rolex Deep Sea Specials

In 1960, Rolex had produced several experimental Deep Sea Specials diving watches, plugged into the US submarine Trieste and dived into the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world, at 10,908 meters. Since then laid the leading position in the diving watch.

Blancpain 50 Fathoms

In the early 1950s, two French officials succeeded in persuading BLANCPAIN to make the watch they invented for their use of the Ecole des Nageurs de combat. In Maloubier's autobiography of 1986, "sneak into the sea, spies" Robert Laffont version, he has a detailed description of this dive watch. Its unique is: the black dial, large numbers and unique scale - triangular, circular, rectangular. A rotatable outer bezel has the same scale as the dial. Before the dive, you can set the minute hand to show the passage of time after entering the water, and each time point can shine like a night star. This military product has been innovative in several fields and is named "50 fathoms" (91.45 meters), the maximum depth to which human beings breathe normally.

Rolex Rolex Sea-Dweller

In 1971, Rolex developed Sea-Dweller, a Sea-Dweller with a row of helium valves and water-resistant 610 meters (2000 feet). Early next year in the Marseilles, France by M.Patrice Chemin and M.Robert Gauret Heli Oxygen mixed environment to wear this watch into the sea water depth of 2000 feet (about 600 meters), and for 18 consecutive days, and become the official world Record.

Waterproof to remove the five major effects

If you think diving watch is simply a waterproof depth, it is underestimated the process. In the water, in addition to have a good waterproof depth, there are five principles must be followed.

1. Anti-corrosion flexible strap

Under water, regardless of whether the paddle arm or the operation of the instrument, you need a flexible wrist rotation, this time the watch needs close fit fixed to the wrist. Although many diving watches are equipped with metal straps, but the chemical composition of the seawater will cause slight corrosion, it is still recommended to replace the diving waterproof and corrosion resistance better rubber strap, and now some brands are also specifically developed It's also a good choice for canvas or synthetic fiber strap.

2. Screw-in non-slip crown

Where is the easiest water to get on a watch? The answer is definitely a crown, because the crown is the only part that connects the outside world and the movement. In order to prevent water from entering the movement through the crown, watchmakers have developed a design called screw-in crown, the crown joined the rubber ring made of rubber, when the crown is tightened, the water It is strictly isolated from the watch (similar to the home at the water pipe valve rubber pad).

3. Row of helium

"Helium helium" is a very professional function, usually used in professional diving watch (waterproof 1000 meters above). Because professional divers can not travel to and from the sea every time they work in the deep ocean, it can waste too much time on decompression.

Therefore, they must live in a deep-sea high-pressured diving tank for a long time. However, at this time, a certain amount of gas must be dissolved in the blood, so the air used in the general diving tank is the helium-oxygen mixed gas. And helium molecules are smaller than the water molecules, when the pressure is high for a long time, the helium molecules will penetrate the waterproof watch to make it filled with high-pressure helium, once back to the surface of the water, if the watch can not be a short period of high-pressure helium Discharge, the watch will explode due to high pressure.

4. luminous instructions

As a basis for underwater reading, all diving watches will be equipped with eye-catching luminous pointer and scale. Usually diving watch pointer, scale or surface will be coated with fluorescent materials, and deliberately enlarge the size of the pointer and scale, in order to allow divers to read more easily. The early luminescent material was radium, which was discontinued due to its excessive amount of radioactive elements. Now the most commonly used luminous material is Super-LumiNova, to absorb light in the gamma-particle light storage, sustainable light more than 10 hours.

Rotating bezel

Rotating bezel reminds dive time. Rotating bezel marked scale 15,30,45, because the general diving oxygen bottle can only adhere to 45 minutes (also some are marked 60-minute scale). The first 15 minutes are colored or specially marked because divers are strictly obliged to take a 15-minute safe stop to ascend for decompression. Usually just turn the bezel while diving, the 0 bezel on the bezel on the minute hand, and then watch the minute hand to move the scale on the bezel to know the dive time.

Diving watch the first consideration is its military and industrial use, doomed to be the first priority of the trait. However, the solemn appearance of diving is not the only watch. The shimmering sea is blue and vast. Occasionally tourists who pass by at first glance are so tranquil and multicolored; yet for the people under them, the dark, melancholy and cold side of the sea, Human beings feel lonely. The time and companion to dive watches under pressure, no doubt, is to comfort the soul.