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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@camrackam791 6 лет назад

More histories! Do racing watches please

@bearclooneywatches4186 6 лет назад

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!

@terryfranks7521 6 лет назад

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

@MrAdjaize 6 лет назад

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

@alittleolder 6 лет назад

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

@MrTeopantli 6 лет назад

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.

@lapomazza5635 2 года назад

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

@khronokraze 6 лет назад

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

@apegrasshoplizard 4 года назад

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.

@fpoynton1604 6 лет назад

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. 👍

@UXXV 6 лет назад

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

@johnnyarsenault9124 10 месяцев назад

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 ! 👌❤️

@anotherknight75 6 лет назад

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

@ZeginMakesMusic Год назад

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 4 месяца назад

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.

@MiataBRG 6 лет назад

Brilliant, thank you 👍

@donrogan2812 6 лет назад

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

@wick-trimmer1980 6 лет назад

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

@grahamlawton6250 6 лет назад

Nice one. Cheers.

@georgeliquor2931 3 года назад

No mention of the Wyler Vetta Life Guard?

@markplayford5836 6 лет назад

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

@danilodittmann8902 3 месяца назад

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

@vdbdg 6 лет назад

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

@jbhomme 6 лет назад

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

@romanopeterj 6 лет назад

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!

@billcosgrave6232 6 лет назад

Great Video. I love horological history.

@Hshsha123 2 года назад

Google- first dive watch rolex But blancpain :(

@BumblebumBear Год назад

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 5 месяцев назад

And Seiko!

@jamesfabbo6481 6 лет назад

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

@morgan97475 6 лет назад

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

@georgegrillo7421 6 лет назад

One of your very best yet! Thank you!

@MrVoayer 6 лет назад

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

@Mk21Diver 6 лет назад

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

@H4VG44RD 3 года назад

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 :-)

@russellalfonso2962 3 года назад

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

@antonhallergren588 3 года назад

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.

@kyleweber1994 6 лет назад

These are fantastic, keep it up, Armand!

@jasongreaves1038 6 лет назад

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

@josephmacdonald6158 6 лет назад

Great scripted and very entertaining video ! Looking forward to the second part , bring on the Seiko dive watches.

@alittleolder 6 лет назад

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 лет назад

[eye rolling intensifies]

@CaptCanuck4444 2 года назад

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

@gymenergic7440 3 месяца назад

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!

@zacharyg2966 6 лет назад

Excellent video!

@JeffreyPisarek 4 года назад

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

@kyleyoung1156 Месяц назад

You have amazing talent, I'm suprised you don't have 1M subs yet !

@MrDoncarnage Год назад

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

@lorddavid5995 6 лет назад

Excellent 👍

@Ouroboros67 6 лет назад

So awesome

@Lanciarules 6 лет назад

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

@inkitatus1 6 лет назад

interesting stuff, thank you 👍👍

@ssvs0485 6 лет назад

I listened to this fascinated all the way to work.

@NateTheGarbage 2 месяца назад

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

@phmwu7368 5 лет назад

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 ...

@vjchung 4 года назад

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

@STARFLIGHT72 5 лет назад

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

@abb1793 6 лет назад

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.

@sashachip 5 лет назад

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.

@jeznashalie 6 лет назад

“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

@federicoacker5672 3 года назад

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

@mrg1911 6 лет назад

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

@manuelmiguel2311 6 лет назад

this guy needs more subs!

@Lion_ofJudah 2 года назад

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

@stevec8243 Год назад

Yet I know commercial divers who do.

@jackdillon4467 4 года назад

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

@danieldelorme4021 Год назад

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

@Farmhouse1967 6 лет назад

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

@DMWeekes90 6 лет назад

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.

@McLaughter_ 3 года назад

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

@almac9203 2 года назад

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

@mirkoscialpi5244 Год назад

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

@robertsullivan4773 4 года назад

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.

@markcoffman494 6 лет назад

Great summary 👍

@paulandsueroberts4121 6 лет назад

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

@esapuhakka5494 5 лет назад

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

@throwingdartsandbreakinghearts 6 лет назад

Who would actually use a luxury watch and go diving? Practically no one

@troynasello2085 3 года назад

Isn't 31 bar 310 meters?

@markbyrum4743 3 года назад

Excel vid. Keep at it!

@emisor73 6 лет назад

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

@777thejesusfreak777 6 лет назад

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

@alohm 3 года назад

what an excellently done production sir!

@alessandro.felici 2 года назад

Epic video!

@johnnyroma213 2 года назад

Boredom ….😊

@danielpaulson3631 6 лет назад

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

@hughmckendrick3018 6 лет назад

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 лет назад

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.

@letsplay455 Год назад

Seiko?????

@richardthorn7726 4 года назад

Brilliant

@extremlaughing 6 лет назад

Very good video, very interesting. Great job.

@hishorology8182 6 лет назад

Very interesting video. Now onto part 2!

@thomash4578 5 лет назад

I am very happy I came across your channel.

@diver11b1p2 6 лет назад

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

@phillippugh2161 4 года назад

Such a great video on dive watches

@rodneymounsey4168 6 лет назад

Fantastical done and can’t wIt for part two!

@mikethebike67 6 лет назад

Great series Armand. I really enjoyed it.

@greghowardbell 5 лет назад

You are the best in the business

@jet-settingrogue761 6 лет назад

Really interesting, thank you

@villepyykko2948 6 лет назад

This was great!!

@mgmmaze 6 лет назад

Great stuff!!!

@Tal-wb9jn 6 лет назад

Outstanding!

@almcl9391 6 лет назад

Great video. Thanks

@markwalters1584 Месяц назад

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. 😊