Rolex Sub or Omega

[Star]

Get the Rolex Explorer II in a black dial. You can swim with it and it is far more under the radar than the Sub. You can supposedly even go 'caving' with it.

 

[Journeyman]

If you like the look of the Rolex, get the Rolex - although it will cost you a lot more than the Speedy Pro.

However, don't use diving as a reason for choosing a watch.
If you want to go diving, wear a digital dive computer.
As others have said, pretty much no-one actually wears a mechanical watch to go diving nowadays (despite Omega's recent, awfully ostentatious and awfully over-priced re-issue of the PloProf).

 

[TheWraith]

I've always preferred an Omega Seamaster, but go with whichever watch makes you happy, no matter what anyone here may say.

 

[anginaprinzmetal]

To the OP, are you asking this question for real?

The Omega Speedmaster is arguably the toughest watch ever created. Do a quick online search and find for yourself?

Trying to compare a Rolex Submariner with an Omega Speedmaster is literally comparing apples to oranges. Would you compare a Ferrari to a Rally ready car, they are intended for different purposes.

Finally, if you're gonna use a submariner to dive go ahead. It will scream: look at me, I don't dive that often but when I do I use a Rolex. Not what I would do but hey whatever floats your boat

 

[Ianiceman]

Literally? Like you mean actually comparing apples to oranges? I thought this was about watches not fruit.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by urymoto

yeah man...its weird i do. and it doesnt bother me.

"Don't touch the watch"

Originally Posted by urymoto

any idea what the variance in price is for a Non-Date, black SUB?..

I refer to my watch for the date nearly as often as for the time. Just saying...

 

[urymoto]

Originally Posted by anginaprinzmetal

To the OP, are you asking this question for real?

The Omega Speedmaster is arguably the toughest watch ever created. Do a quick online search and find for yourself?

Trying to compare a Rolex Submariner with an Omega Speedmaster is literally comparing apples to oranges. Would you compare a Ferrari to a Rally ready car, they are intended for different purposes.

Finally, if you're gonna use a submariner to dive go ahead. It will scream: look at me, I don't dive that often but when I do I use a Rolex. Not what I would do but hey whatever floats your boat

be that as it may, it still says on the OMEGA FAQ not to subject it to temps below 0C, so to me, it looked not so tough

 

[urymoto]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

"Don't touch the watch"



I refer to my watch for the date nearly as often as for the time. Just saying...

your comment was sufficient!

 

[robinsongreen68]

From the Omega website: "Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the first to have climbed all fourteen “eight-thousanders” (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level) and the first to have climbed Everest solo without supplemental oxygen, wore a Speedmaster on his 1989 expedition to the Geographic South Pole, crossing Antarctica on skis." i understand your caution but it does make me laugh that guys like messner and the astronauts chose to wear these watches in situations where their lives depended on them, then a desk jockey type isnt sure its rugged enough for, what, timing a cappuccino run..?

 

[Shikar]

Get the Rolex Sea Dweller over the regular Sub.

Regards.

 

[dsgNYC]

If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the Rolex. It's the quintessential dive watch. However, if I was choosing I'd go for the 50 or 500 Fathoms.

 

[anginaprinzmetal]

I'm not sure how things got to this point "literally"

If you want a scuba diving watch a submariner is probably ok, other than swimming in a shower a Speedmaster shouldn't be close to water. Now, if we are talking about a tough watch a Speedmaster is as tough as they come. I would argue is one of the toughest mechanical watches available, probably the toughest, objectively speaking (hey Ianiceman I intended to use objectively here, ok?). So to the OP you need to decide if you want a scuba watch, then Speedmaster is out. You want a tough watch, I'd definitely consider a Speedmaster.

 

[dreamtripper]

Unless cost is an object, I'd go with the Submariner.

 

[urymoto]

From the Omega website:

"Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the first to have climbed all fourteen “eight-thousanders” (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level) and the first to have climbed Everest solo without supplemental oxygen, wore a Speedmaster on his 1989 expedition to the Geographic South Pole, crossing Antarctica on skis."



.
im a macchiato man.

 

[TimelesStyle]

You could always check out the Omega Seamaster 300m Chronograph. Personally, I like the Sub better but I'm not a chronograph guy. If I did get a chrono, it would probably be an Omega. I would not, however, want the new Sub with the new clasp and ceramic bezel; see if any dealers have the old version, or else consider the no-date.