Testing the Waters: Diving with Vintage Dive Watches – A Risk Worth Taking?

Can you actually go diving with a 50 year old vintage dive watch? Well, it’s time to find out. Alright guys, so today we are diving with tutor. I’m with my dive buddy Jaco. Today I am wearing the Tudor Pelagos 39. It’s a watch that I’ve loved, but nobody really takes these things diving anymore. So we’re definitely going to test this in the water. Jaco, what are you wearing? Today we’re also gonna be diving with the vintage Tudor snowflake. We thought it’d be a good idea to test out both of them in the water together. Let’s go! Hop in. Before you go hopping in the water with your vintage diver, you want to be sure of a couple of things. Water is really good at getting into places it shouldn’t be. Hence why dive watches are so robust to begin with. But over 50 years, rubber gaskets can dry up, screw threads can be stripped, and all sorts of things can compromise the water resistance of a watch. Which is why before the dive, we put in fresh gaskets, double checked everything, and had the watch extensively pressure tested. And the vintage Tudor held up great on the dive. But compared to the modern Pelagos, it was practically obsolete when it came to being an actual dive tool based on the features alone. Although a fun experience. So can you dive with your vintage diver? Yes, but is it worth the risk? Probably not.