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View Poll Results: For Saturation/Mixed Gas Diving I'd use: | |||
Rolex 114060 | 85 | 59.03% | |
Tudor Pelagos in Blue, Black, or LHD. | 59 | 40.97% | |
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24 October 2017, 09:44 AM | #1 |
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A Second Social Experiment
For saturation diving which would you choose?
1) Rolex Sub C 114060 2) Tudor Pelagos |
24 October 2017, 09:53 AM | #2 |
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A proper dive comp?
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24 October 2017, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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#2 due to the He valve.
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24 October 2017, 10:18 AM | #4 |
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I voted R but, when did T win out before R in any comparable modern reference watch comparison?
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24 October 2017, 10:42 AM | #5 |
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Interesting poll
I didn't vote because I don't dive... |
24 October 2017, 10:48 AM | #6 |
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Neither. I would hire a diver.
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24 October 2017, 10:53 AM | #7 |
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Serious question-- for a saturation dive is a HE valve necessary, or is it just a nice to have? Assuming one would wear a mechanical dive watch at all.
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24 October 2017, 10:56 AM | #8 |
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I'm no diver, but I know that if you value your watch, you'll want a helium escape valve if you're doing saturation dives.
We all know that almost no one buys a Sea Dweller, DSSD, or Pelagos because they have HEVs. If you like to have a crystal on your watch, you'll need an HEV.
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An HEV, yes...
A Tudor,no... The Sub is a false choice to put in the poll IMHO Saw this article earlier this year: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/wh...rs-do-about-it Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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I'll stay in the hot tub.
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24 October 2017, 12:04 PM | #11 |
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So far I'm amazed by the results; people would rather destroy a Rolex then wear a watch that would function as it was designed and survive. Unbelievable!!!
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24 October 2017, 01:48 PM | #12 |
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My turn ! Pelagos is the creme de la creme of the tool watches , It's way cooler, the HEV is really its soul for saturation diving.
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Choose one or the other; so many anti Tudor individuals on the forum that they'd rather choose a watch which is useless for the described purpose than a Tudor. This is a true Social Experiment. My thought is that most who buy Rolex don't have a clue as how they can perform. Or maybe I'm just cynical. |
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I would take option C. A Seiko Tuna. Why risk an expensive watch ? If I were attempting a saturation dive I have other things to focus on.
(For those who don't know, the Seiko Tuna was designed for sat diving. It does not have a HEV. It was built to avoid He ingress into the watch to begin with. It has a very dependable purpose designed quartz movement and it's relatively inexpensive). |
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Voted 114060 so I can live out my dream of being 007. I would make sure to wear the same watch with my tuxedo that night
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Comes to show how bias and twisted many of the X vs Y threads are. Even when given a choice here on this thread (granted the SubC was not a fair alternative), the SubC is still ahead in the polls for a dive it was clearly not designed for. A true social experiment indeed! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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A normal recreational scuba diver which is not saturation diving would have no need to use any type of HEV on any watch.Think of it this way take a balloon down to 10m underwater.Thats 2 atmospheres one water one surface air pressure.Now fill that balloon with air at that pressure of 2 atmospheres,because the compressed air is now under-pressure and quite dense, you can fill it but the amount of air content would be twice as much as normal above water surface pressure.Now release that balloon and let it go back to the surface because of the return to one atmosphere normal surface air pressure balloon would expand and burst simply because there was twice as much air in it at normal one atmosphere air surface pressure.
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Also, I voted Pelagos for obvious reasons. |
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why do you need a watch? If you are diving deep enough or long enough you have a computer which will save your life, a watch wont.
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I was diving in Palau at the blue corner. I thought it was cool to wear my sea dweller until I noticed it dangling from my wrist at the safety stop, never again.
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24 October 2017, 10:40 PM | #22 |
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Pelagos. HEV, titanium and a clasp that's right up there with the glidelock.
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But are you really surprised at the result? I, like you, would wear my SD (if I was a saturation diver!)
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Pelagos given the flawed choices offered. In the real world I’d take an Omega Seamaster or a Rolex Sea Dweller.
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I don't understand why some people get upset because not everyone loves Tudor. If not for the SS Day-Date that Adam owns I'd not give any Tudor a second look. We all have different tastes and that shouldn't be a problem.
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In terms of value per dollar, I didn't find the BB any better than the Rolex. fit/finish below Rolex standard, especially when you compare the bracelets. And that's before considering the BB36 uses an ETA 2824 movement For around $2800 the BB36 was a nice watch. Definitely better than most watches in the sub-$3000 category. But the OP36 at $5400 was offering a lot of bang-for-buck as well (in-house superlative chronometer, great case and dial finish, oyster bracelet) |
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For the recreational diver on air, that limit is 130 feet. For the helmet air supplied commercial diver, it is probably 200 feet. For the mixed gas helmet diver, it is probably 300 feet with a bell-bounce diver going to 600 feet for short durations. For the mixed gas saturation diver, perhaps 2,000 feet. You never said how deep. |
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25 October 2017, 01:44 AM | #28 |
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of the two... Rolex 114060
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Now see, this is a clever thread. The last one wasn't a real fair comparison, but this one is truly a demonstration of how so many people simply vote one way because of the Coronet, never mind that it would get destroyed anyways.
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So the 59 who voted the Rolex in the real world do not know what's involved with saturation diving. But I would guess today most Rolex or Tudor dive watches with HEV or not are used for desk diving only.
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