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Sports Watches & Diving Watches
Sports
Watches - Playing for Time
No
matter what your favorite outdoor activity is, there's a sports
or dive watch to wear while you're enjoying it. Sports-specific
watches have become as popular as the beer guy during the
seventh-inning stretch. Hockey players can keep track of the three
20-minute periods in their games with their very own hockey watch
(from Tissot).
Golfers can whack the ball to
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TAG
Heuer Men's Formula 1
Chronograph Watch
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kingdom
come wearing their own watch, an extra-shock-resistant model with
a crown placed ergonomically on the left side (from TAG
Heuer). Sailors can calculate
wind vectors, determine when the tide is due in and count down
the crucial 10 minutes before a yachting race with watches from
Audemars Piguet, Bulgari and Hamilton,
among others. That's not all: mountain climbers can measure their
prowess
with altimeter watches and hikers can stay on course with compass
watches (one model, from Seiko,
even has a feature that allows you to read distances on a map,
any map, instantly).
Dive
Watches - Taking the Plunge
When
you're surviving on canned air 100 or so feet under the sea, few
things matter more than time. To prevent painful developments (specifically,
the bends), divers need to know how long they've been under water,
and, when the dive is over, to make sure they don't ascend too quickly.
That makes a reliable watch a vital piece of equipment. Even divers
who rely on dive computers, which provide every piece of data a
diver could possible need, often wear a watch as backup.
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Seiko
Diver's Automatic 200m - Orange Dial Stainless Bracelet
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The
first requirement for a dive watch: a water-resistance
level of at least 200 meters, made possible by an extra-thick
case, gaskets that prevent seepage into the watch and, often,
a crown and case back that screw in securely. Another requirement:
an easy-to-read dial, preferably with luminous hands and markers.
One useful extra: a graduated bezel that rotates, but only in
a counter-clockwise direction. This enables the diver to time
the divers duration but prevents the watch from understating elapsed
time if the bezel is accidentally knocked off position.
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