Essential Adventure Gear You Can Trust - The Rolex Submariner

[decksurgeon]

There are numerous threads/posts/websites dedicated to the Rolex Submariner. May I present humbly the 116610LV equipped with the famed ceramic bezel. Suffice to say since 1954 The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner is a superb family of dive watches well known for their resistance to water and trusted by professionals around the world.

There are 3 more things that I trust my life with besides the Rolex Submariner:

(1) My dive buddy!

(2) Atomic Aquatics make the Ferrari of diving regulators with their Titanium T2x series that is 838grams of uber light Titanium Ti-6AL-4V alloy precision-machined from a solid piece of material requiring 23 individual operations in a single pass.

(3) The Suunto DX dive computer with wireless air integration in titanium.

Needless to say, they all go extremely well with the precision machined 904L Stainless Steel used by Rolex in the making of the submariner.

When you having fun under pressure you need gear that you can trust. Rolex happens to be one of them.

Indeed a watch for individuals with taste and style for the deep end.

Enjoy the pictures.

PS: My apologies in advance for a dirty watch.......it has been used!

[decksurgeon]

Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable adventure wherever your Rolex may take you......

[decksurgeon]

The "chameleon" Dial!

depending on the lighting conditions and angle of the watch.
the green dial can actually look like a black dial.
a bit of a "chameleon" to be honest.

A few others thought it was a black dial from a distance till they came up close and had a look to realise it was green.

here are a few quick shots, dial looks black at some angles


here it looks black here huh



when angled, there are black shades mixed in with the green



here you see the dark patches of "black" once again appear on the dial depending on the angle, and always at opposing 180 degree areas.




Although the marketing literature from Rolex says the watch will fit over a 3mm wetsuit with the 20mm glidelock extension in the clasp this is not really true in real life.
had the watch fitted with the fliplock diver extension (option part - same part number from the deep sea sea dweller) so that it could go over my 3mm Scubapro thermaltec wetsuit.



this is what the watch looks like in total darkness.
The lume has been charged by shining a diving torch over it for a few moments (Underwater Kinetics eLED light cannon, 825lumens, 10 seconds)

Rolex Submariner illumination shot (blue!)
You can see that the lume is so bright that it is reflected off the inside of the sapphire crystal and lights up some wording on the dial.
The hour markers also shine brightly and are reflected off the "inner bezel" known more correctly as the "Rehaut" (French)

[RolexSD]

Fantastic bro with those pics and explanations....really make used of this watch and was my fav watch too....2 x thumbs up..

[decksurgeon]

My pleasure. Glad you like the pics

[pegasi]

I am not sure if you are a good diver but you sure are a good photographer. These pictures are among the best showcase pictures I have seen here

[1983leofender]

Very very swee watch and pictures. Thanks for all the effort to showcase the beauty of this watch bro!

[decksurgeon]

thanks guys for your kind words

my diving is as bad as my photography LOL!!

[bustop]

nice green!!!

[pegasi]

A 5-star rating I've put for this thread

[Otar]

love the lume shot!

[decksurgeon]

A 5-star rating I've put for this thread

you are too kind sir *thumbs up*

[RolPam]

Nice pics, bro

[manbo]

Super nice.... motivated to save up for 1 after seeing the wonderful picts.
Thanks!!

[Newcastle]

These photographs looks good enough for marketing purpose. Great work there.!