Rolex Submariner vs Sea-Dweller vs Deepsea | Watchfinder & Co.

arolex and the sea are like well adapter water the brand having kick-started the entire dive watch legacy pretty much single-handedly as far as credentials go there's only one you need to know a Rolex watch has been to the deepest part of the ocean and survived and that was back in 1960 a watch literally cannot go any deeper than that and so Rolex dive watches have come to be heralded as the very best and we've got three of them but which is the best of the best [Music] compared to the other two here the rolex submariner is a bit of a wimp tapping out at 300 meters is bailing before the others have even noticed they're wet playing a numbers game it's a no-brainer to sack off the Submariner and go for something with a bit more beef but the numbers don't tell the whole story it's the whole story that tells the whole story and it begins in the 20s with the oyster a Rolex inspired by the saltwater bivalve mollusc of the same name and its ability to seal itself from its briny habitat unlike a real oyster however the Rolex Oyster used rubber gaskets compressed by screw threads to keep the wet parts wet and the dry parts dry a design that many believe was a Rolex original but it wasn't in 1925 two years ahead of the release of the oyster a Swiss patent was registered for a crown design that used a screw thread to seal it this sought inspiration from an American patent from 1881 for a pocket watch with a screw down crown which in turn borrowed the idea from an 1872 patent that demonstrated how screw threads could be used to seal the case from water having dictated that his watches must be completely waterproof rolex found a house Wilsdorf hide these patents with interest noting that none of them had ever really been put to proper use in a wristwatch so he bought the rights to that Swiss patent and had the watch makers at Aguilar the company that made his watches develop it into a working prototype and it worked up to a point and that point was when the mainspring was fully wound it hadn't occurred to them that once the power reserve was full the crown would stop turning which would prevent it from being screwed down so it was back to the Patent Office for another 1881 patent this time for a crown clutch that allowed it to keep spinning regardless of the state of wind but the technological journey in the pursuit of the ultimate waterproof watch didn't stop there because there was another snag to overcome a hand-wound watch with a screw down crown wore its threads quickly being sealed and unsealed day after day after day 2 the solution the perpetual movement which made use of a winding rotor so the watch could remain wound without having to unscrew the crown at all all the ingredients for that ultimate waterproof watch were now there and in 1953 Rolex proudly announced the Submariner to the world back then it maxed out at a puny 100 meters but this was a revolutionary in a commercially available watch and it heralded the start of one of the greatest technological races watchmaking has ever seen the quest for the deep nobody in the Swiss watch industry had expected what Rolex did in 1953 with this Submariner the big old companies like Omega were caught napping so sure were they in their traditional ways that the idea of a rugged simple watch for actually doing stuff with was not even a consideration well not until the Submariner became a massive success remember that Rolex was a bit of a newbie at this point trying to make a name for itself I imagine that after forcing the industry's hand into accepting the advancement of puny silly wristwatches over grand traditional pocket watches willsdorf and his Rolex brand was starting to annoy the old guard the Submariner was the tipping point for watch making giant Omega who retaliated with a trifecta of flagship watches the C Master 300 the rail master and the speed master and Omega wasn't done there Rolex had beaten it to the punch and brought an affordable practical watch to the masses engaging in the new sport of scuba diving but Omega considered the true prize to be not of the amateur but the professional the game was on both brands challenged to build a watch that could withstand 600 meters for an attempt on the diving record here's where the old adage works smart not hard comes to mind Rolex as it had demonstrated with many of its accomplishments including the screw-down crown made the most of what had already been achieved and refined it furnished with neither the time or the budget to start anything from scratch this promoted quick clever thinking quite the opposite of its competition omegas efforts to build a mega dive wash however were outstanding the company had effectively rewritten the wristwatch rulebook building a ground up concept that defined almost every aspect of its operation in a new way the bezel that was locked in place with a pusher and was fitted with glowing markers the crown it was secured using an additional thread lock to ensure that it could never be damaged or accidentally adjusted even the case itself was revolutionized a monoblock shell that far surpassed the requirements needed by over double this watch which Amega dubs the plunger professor now the professional diver was a masterpiece a tour de force of omegas might as a watchmaker such as to make the Submariner a laughable trinket but whilst Omega had been working very very hard rolex had worked smart a thicker case back a thicker crystal and a valve make the Submariner just about capable enough for the task and so the sea dweller was born some years ahead of the playoff I might and so the game was already won there's a reason Rolex was so confident with its simplistic approach with the sea-dweller and that's because nearly a decade earlier the company had already put the theory to the ultimate test on the basis that a watch of the same design as the Submariner could quite simply be built thicker and stronger the deep-sea special of 1960 was created now this really did turn up the Submariner 211 because with a thicker case crown bezel case back and crystal the deep-sea special ended up at a whopping 54 millimeters thick and this was before the days of who blow but despite is outrageous appearance all the principles of the watch were the same as that original 1927 oyster using screw threads in the bezel crown and case back everything was held together with an unbreakable bond that would in theory be able to survive the deepest point in all the world's oceans the Mariana Trench situated in the Pacific Ocean some thousand miles southeast of Japan the Mariana Trench that just under seven miles deep is capable of completely submerging Mount Everest with another mile and a bit to spare to conquer it would require not just a watch but a vehicle none other than the Trieste a u.s. Navy owned bathyscaphe designed by the same Auguste Piccard believed to have been the inspiration for the federation captain of the same name Rolex took the opportunity to hitch a lift on the Trieste attaching the deep-sea special to the outside as it made its way to the ocean floor on the 23rd of January 1960 despite experiencing over six tons of pressure per square inch the watch and the Trieste both emerged in the same condition in which they had departed it was one of Hans Wilsdorf last adventures at the helm of Rolex passing away a few months later but at least he did so knowing that he had achieved his life's work creating the ultimate waterproof watch of course the deep-sea special was a concept watch that no sensibly minded human would ever consider wearing but even into the new millennium some half a century later Rolex was able to learn from its achievement and so came the 2008 sea dweller deep sea a 3,900 metre water resistant monster that actually isn't too unreasonably sized at all when it was first announced the prospects of a 44 millimeter Rolex was almost unthinkable but since the panic and the flapping that Rolex was going to make all its watches this big has died down the deep sea presents a rather incredible proposition despite only being 2.5 millimetres thicker than the sea dweller the deep-sea gains a whopping 2680 metres of water resistance thanks in part to the five point five millimeter crystal and titanium case back but mostly thanks to the patented ring lock system which is effectively an additional case housed within the main body of the watch you can see how thick the inner ring lock case is between the outer case and the dial and that's not all in 2012 Rolex announced the beefiest version of the deep sea yet the deep sea challenge capable of withstanding a depth of 12,000 meters using a similar ring lock system despite being put to the test by director and adventurer James Cameron as he descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in his submarine the deep-sea challenger because the trench is only seven miles deep the full capabilities of the wash will never be challenged on this planet it stands to reason for thicker the watch the greater the water resistance there's almost a century of development by Rolex in the journey of these watches the Submariner sea dweller and deep sea and each adds a new chapter to the evolution of the original dive watch manufacturer which ones right for you that depends on your next adventure discover more exceptional watches at watch finder dr. dot uk' if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe if there are any other watches you'd like to see reviewed please let us know in the comments below

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 25 2019