The Best Dive Watches： Cheap to Ridiculous

The best dive watches at every price, from a Casio under £100 to a £150,000 jellyfish. Mainstream and microbrand, affordable to entry level luxury to luxury to the properly ridiculous, and the ones I'd actually buy at each step.

Some of the best selling and most recognisable watches ever made are divers. But the further up you go, the less a dive watch has to do with diving and the more it has to do with everything else. So this is where I think the value sits, where it stops, and which pieces are worth stretching for anyway. There's a case for neo-vintage Omega over modern Tudor, an honest word on the Longines HydroConquest hype, why the Tudor Pelagos might be the best luxury diver going, and my favourite watch in the whole video, which you can't wind and can read from any angle underwater.

Dive watches covered: Casio Marlin Duro, Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Diver, Tissot Seastar, Hamilton Khaki Navy Scuba, Second Hour Gin Clear, Vero Open Water 38, Seiko Prospex 1965, Longines HydroConquest, Tudor Black Bay 58, Omega Seamaster 300M 2531 and early Planet Ocean, Christopher Ward C65, Nomadic Marai 36, Nomadic Bru 750, Doxa Sub 300T, Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Bond 60th Anniversary, Breitling Superocean Heritage, Tudor Pelagos, Longines Legend Diver, MING 37.09 Bluefin, Ulysse Nardin Diver X Skeleton, Ressence Type 5, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver, Richard Mille RM 032, MB&F HM7 Aquapod and Parmigiani Fleurier Pershing Tourbillon Abyss.

Whether you're after the best dive watch under £500, the best Swiss dive watch for a first luxury purchase, a Rolex Submariner alternative or an independent diver nobody else at the bar is wearing, this guide runs the full range of 200m and 300m divers, titanium tool watches, SW200 microbrands and haute horlogerie dive watches in 2026.