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Originally Posted by Sliver
Hey do you ever use that spinning bezel thing, or is it more of a decoration?
I'm looking at getting a Seiko 5. The Internet is telling me it's a great bang-for-buck watch and I've never really had a watch beyond an old Ironman or my Samsung smart watch. It sounds like the 5 is a good beginner nice watch.
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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
The spinning bezel is for yachting; I assume this Seiko is a boating watch.
I have it on my Breitling Superocean Heritage and absolutely never rotate it. In fact I hate it when it accidentally gets rotated and I have to fully rotate it around to get straight again.
When I buy a yacht, answer may change.
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The Seiko MM300 is a dive watch, and I have a suspicion so is your super ocean. If you want to get super technical, the way to tell for sure is if the pip at the 12:00 position on the bezel is illuminated, and the bezel is uni-directional it is a dive watch. Dive watches rarely have and numerals on the dial either, just simple markings.
If the bezel has no illumination and is bi-directional, it is usually a boating watch.
Proper dive watches are ISO rated to 200m or more. 99.9% of these watches will never see depths like that, and for 99.9% of people, a G-Shock will suit their water sports needs. But it's more about engineering. It's a $5000 adjustable, carbon downforce rear spoiler on 1998 Honda civic, but on your wrist. Technically, it's functional. Realistically, it's major overkill and serves no real purpose but to look cool.
Proper dive watches will not have a display (glass) back.
These aren't hard and fast rules, but usually stuff outside of this category is microbrand stuff, or not mainstream.
And my Bezel's most common uses are to time laundry loads, and hard boiled eggs. At least I know I can do those things at 300M while welding the hull of a submarine.