Rolex Sea Dweller - The Classic Diver - Images

[outstretchedhands]

As promised, folks. Merry Christmas!

[andy tims]

More fantastic pictures - just superb.

[ben4watches]

You do take a rather nice snap

[outstretchedhands]

You do take a rather nice snap

Thanks guys! She's very photogenic, though.

[jason latif]

Beautiful pics!! Thanks!

Which camera/ macro lense do you use??

Jason

[seadog1408]

again great fots duncan,

thanks for posting



cheers
mike

[redmond]

that looks great how you finding it size wise ? quality wise ?

[outstretchedhands]

that looks great how you finding it size wise ? quality wise ?

Thanks everyone! Well, I've had a few of these and several Subs so neither the size or quality was unexpected. Size is great at 40/41mm and the height is just about spot on for me. I think many of us do the larger watches thing and many eventually return to something slightly more subtle and wearable on a daily basis. I'm planning to quit buying watches for my personal use in 2009 now and stick with this one. I keep coming back to it and it's the only one which ticks 99 out of my 100 boxes (so to speak). Quality-wise. few watches are better than the SD with everything fitting as it should, the finish perfect and the crown winds and moves like silk. It feels sturdy and and it is sturdy. I'm a happy camper and I guess I had to try a bunch of others to finally decide this one is a close as it gets to my perfect dive watch. I've had several reasons for not having a Rolex in the past and sometimes it's not the ideal timepiece to be wearing in all situations that I find myself in but for those I can always change to my SAR which I've also kept.

[redmond]

that looks great how you finding it size wise ? quality wise ?

Thanks everyone! Well, I've had a few of these and several Subs so neither the size or quality was unexpected. Size is great at 40/41mm and the height is just about spot on for me. I think many of us do the larger watches thing and many eventually return to something slightly more subtle and wearable on a daily basis. I'm planning to quit buying watches for my personal use in 2009 now and stick with this one. I keep coming back to it and it's the only one which ticks 99 out of my 100 boxes (so to speak). Quality-wise. few watches are better than the SD with everything fitting as it should, the finish perfect and the crown winds and moves like silk. It feels sturdy and and it is sturdy. I'm a happy camper and I guess I had to try a bunch of others to finally decide this one is a close as it gets to my perfect dive watch. I've had several reasons for not having a Rolex in the past and sometimes it's not the ideal timepiece to be wearing in all situations that I find myself in but for those I can always change to my SAR which I've also kept.

always had abit of a hankering for the SD but found the sub to small, do they wear much different ?

[outstretchedhands]

Beautiful pics!! Thanks!

Which camera/ macro lense do you use??

Jason

Thanks Jason. These we taken with an Olympus E-420 with Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm f/3.5 Macro.

[jason latif]

Beautiful pics!! Thanks!

Which camera/ macro lense do you use??

Jason

Thanks Jason. These we taken with an Olympus E-420 with Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm f/3.5 Macro.

I'm impressed! From the quality, I thought you used a top of the range Nikon. Obviously it's the photographer that counts!!

[outstretchedhands]

that looks great how you finding it size wise ? quality wise ?

Thanks everyone! Well, I've had a few of these and several Subs so neither the size or quality was unexpected. Size is great at 40/41mm and the height is just about spot on for me. I think many of us do the larger watches thing and many eventually return to something slightly more subtle and wearable on a daily basis. I'm planning to quit buying watches for my personal use in 2009 now and stick with this one. I keep coming back to it and it's the only one which ticks 99 out of my 100 boxes (so to speak). Quality-wise. few watches are better than the SD with everything fitting as it should, the finish perfect and the crown winds and moves like silk. It feels sturdy and and it is sturdy. I'm a happy camper and I guess I had to try a bunch of others to finally decide this one is a close as it gets to my perfect dive watch. I've had several reasons for not having a Rolex in the past and sometimes it's not the ideal timepiece to be wearing in all situations that I find myself in but for those I can always change to my SAR which I've also kept.

always had abit of a hankering for the SD but found the sub to small, do they wear much different ?

Yes, they do wear differently. The SD is a far more substantial watch due to it's extra weight and thickness over the Sub. The 14060M I just had wore nicely and the dial felt slightly bigger due to the lack of writing on the dial and the 1mm larger dimension. On my 7.5 inch wrist the SD feels about perfect. That said, for me it's very much about what my eyes are used to seeing. When I went from a CSAR to a SHOm to an SD about a year ago, the SD felt too small. Having gone from the Baby PloProf to a Sub ND to an SD, the SD feels quite big and substantial and just right...

[shalako]

Congrats on the SD and thanks for the lovely pics, it's made me go and start wearing mine now....
I thought you were after a version with the lug holes though?

[outstretchedhands]

Beautiful pics!! Thanks!

Which camera/ macro lense do you use??

Jason

Thanks Jason. These we taken with an Olympus E-420 with Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm f/3.5 Macro.

I'm impressed! From the quality, I thought you used a top of the range Nikon. Obviously it's the photographer that counts!!

I've said it once if I've said it a million times: Don't listen to the fanboys! I love Nikons and the Canons are great, too but Olympus and others have caught up lately and the E-420 is capable of images that most of us are not. At the end of the day it's very much about who's behind the camera and unless I'm going to blow my images up to a size that would cover the end-wall on the average terrace house, I'd be hard puched to notice any difference in the image quality between an E-420 and good lens and a Nikon D300 with good lens. It's for that very reason that I decided to go Olympus this time and save myself some cash which I have now spent on good lenses instead. Spend a few hours on DPReview and see some of the stuff people post that have been taken with kits costing £20k+ and you'll see what I mean.

[outstretchedhands]

Congrats on the SD and thanks for the lovely pics, it's made me go and start wearing mine now....
I thought you were after a version with the lug holes though?

I was but this one came along and the rest is history. I've very happy it with it, though and glad I went for it.