Weekend Edition: A Vintage Heuer Reference Guide, A Throwback Longines, And Don’t You Dare Call The Française A Ladies’ Watch
Sure, most people don’t use their dive watch for diving, but some do, and they often have to travel if they want to dive. With a dive-GMT like the Seikos in question, you don’t have to worry about bringing another watch on vacation (and all the risks that can entail), you just have a one-watch solution that works while diving, while timing a pizza, while waiting for a flight, or while trying to figure out what time it is at home, or even at your next destination.
While the base configuration of a GMT watch is one that features a 24-hour bezel, I’d wager that the number of people who dive with their dive watches is loosely similar to the number of people that know/use their 24-hour bezel as it was intended (to capture the offset of another time zone referenced against UTC).